Camden+M's+Op-Ed+Article


 * Why no white history month?**

It may seem like a ridiculous question, but if there are black, Hispanic, and Asian history months, why is there no allotted month for appreciating white history. Growing up in an America that is still trying to make up for it’s past of subjugating minorities, white people often feel that it is their place to feel guilty and accept ridicule for our fellow whities who were bad people. It seems that nowadays people are very careful about being politically correct when it comes to offending minorities, but no matter what you say about white people, it’s pretty much okay. I think the general consensus is that we deserve it for how much white people have messed up the world, and if we want to have racial harmony, we kind of have to just take the beating. But I think this isn’t the solution, how can we ever move forward in breaking down racial barriers if we continue to hold onto the past? Wouldn’t a better solution be just to start fresh instead of trying to atone for the sins of our fathers? I never enslaved anyone; I never destroyed a culture or committed mass murder, or ever intentionally did anything racist. So when white people are treated like they have something to make up for, it’s really just setting us further back, on the path of race relations.

Perhaps it is understandable why we would want to skip over white history because of it’s brutal nature. While there are certainly plenty of pleasant aspects of white history, it would seem as though we wanted to cover up all the bad parts and make everyone forget all the atrocities of white history, were we to only highlight the positive aspects.

In the end, we have to understand that while white history is at times very unpleasant, we cannot hold the white people of today responsible for it. And if we are going to celebrate the history of different races, we should do it equally. White people have just as much of a right to their own history month as any other race, we do not seek to glorify the crimes of the white race, but simply to celebrate our history and our heritage, just like everybody else.

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 * Actually, there is White History Month. It's called every other month.**