Says this link from Ace about Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland's review of Huckleberry Finn, the novel said to be the greatest novel ever produced in America.
It reminds me of a 70's talk show, Donahue, in which a black man ( forgot his name) asserted pretty much the same thing. The audience didn't take that very well, but I wonder how an audience would take that now. Probably today, the audience would applaud.
If there's a problem here, it's lies in the practice of pointing fingers. Leadership isn't pointing fingers. You hear that if you follow professional sports. It is a lesson that can be applied to nations as well. When there's a team that has a number of players pointing fingers at each other, you know that team is in trouble. Well, a nation is like a team. When it gets to the point where whole classes of peoples start pointing fingers at whole classes of people, that nation is in trouble.
White people in this country get the guilt trip routine in order to be manipulated by politicians. They are called upon to redress the harm that they may never have had anything to do with. For example, even if you nor your ancestors ever harmed any black person, you are guilty anyway. Guilt cannot be ascertained this way. It is a manipulation device. Guilt is determined upon a case-by-case basis. But if that way to determine guilt were to be the case, it wouldn't be politically useful.
No, the problem isn't white people per se, it is politicians who exploit guilt for political purposes. Politicians are individuals, so you know who they are. Don't feed the animals. Don't reward politicians that do this. They aren't doing anything constructive to help the nation better itself. Don't fall for the guilt trip and don't lay down the guilt trip.
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