White Guilt

I remember being a student at an elite private university discussing white guilt. Some guy at a reception was talking to me about it and I wasn't picking up what he was laying down.

In exasperation, he said, "You must feel SOME white guilt?"

I replied, "You would be very surprised at how little white guilt I feel, which is none."

Needless to say I received my last degree from a good public university. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have been so direct and confrontational, but I was fired up.

But let's delve a little deeper. Guilt is an empowering emotion. One feels guilty because one could have done more, one could have solved the problem is only one had done more. A Princeton theologian talked about this emotion if a child dies of cancer. Parents will feel guilty thinking that they could or should have done more, when in fact the cancer was incurable and they did all they could.

That's the situation here. Wealth and other disparities are part of nature, part of the natural order, part of the plan. Trying to work against and mitigate them might actually make things worse over the long term. Disparity, which is related to the leftist talisman diversity, is something for us to try and understand, not remove unthinkingly as leftists do because history shows that doing so leads to a destroyed society of crime, poverty, as death.