The Blue Board

He said fortunate not thankful.

"I'm not saying that white people are better. I'm saying that BEING white is clearly better. Who can argue?"

Just saw Louis last week. Funniest man alive.

Truth. Louis CK is the man.

"I don’t wanna go in the future and find out what happens to white people because we’re gonna pay hard for this s***, you gotta know that. We’re not gonna just fall from number 1 to 2. They are gonna hold us down and f*** us in the a** forever. And we totally deserve it. But for now – WEEEE!"

Dude is raciest!

This. Reverse racism in this country is awful, everyone feels entitled.. but God forbid a white person is proud of who they are.

God, imagine if you were asian? So gross

But you'd have a 3 inch dick.....

Catch 22

To be fair, you weren't exactly original with your sarcasm either.

Yes, but I also didn't go negative. As soon as you go into the negative stereotypes, you take the entire conversation down a level.

A response in kind would've been something like "Ughhh, I know. It's like being black - I can never find jeans that properly contain my humungous schlong."

Nothing, until you cross the line into believing that your race is somehow superior to others.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of "white pride" movements in America have just been thinly-veiled (or maybe not-even-veiled) "white superiority" movements. Ethnic pride movements emerged out of a concerted desire to assert equality and relevance in a country whose race relations were defined by the aforementioned "white superiority" movements. As a result, thanks to the history of such movements, "white pride" is often seen as having an inherently racist quality to it that isn't as present in other ethnic pride movements.

It's like you don't even bother to read what I say.

"white pride" is often seen as having an inherently racist quality to it that isn't as present in other ethnic pride movements.

Of course there are racist and supremacist wings of every ethnic pride movement. (Off the top of my head, you've got the Black Panthers and the Boxers, among others.) That shouldn't even be a question. I'm simply explaining to you why saying "I'm proud to be white" comes off differently than saying "I'm proud to be [insert minority here]."

Well, the problem with that is that the vast majority of schooling is "white history" schooling. The vast majority of television is "white entertainment tv." (seriously, remember Friends? Seinfeld? Cheers?)

The "____ history months" arose as an effort to integrate this history of other cultures into what was a predominantly Euro-centric educational curriculum. The reason people would react viscerally to a "white history month" is that it just represents a reactionary backlash to other history months, not any sort of concerted desire to promote cultural awareness, since white history isn't being left out of any textbooks.

So? If he had said he was thankful to be an African American male, or a Mexican American male nobody would have blinked an eye, why is this wrong?