My generation of millennials and younger has been trained by the media, by advertising, by schools and universities, to feel guilty and “complicit” if our skin color is white, and to feel oppressed and marginalized if our skin color is non-white.

We’ve been trained it’s wrong to show a picture or advertisement if there are only white people in it, or an all-white family. If there’s no diversity, it’s wrong and must be corrected. I have a background in design and advertising and I don’t even consciously think about it anymore—everything produced must have the diversity angle covered or it’s “wrong”. Now the other way around, it’s beautiful to have families of colors or of mixed ethnicities.

So the natural consequence of this “all-white is wrong” eventually becomes “white is wrong”.

Which is why you have weak-minded people crying and on their knees begging forgiveness for the sins of people long dead and who we have no control of, in front of others whose wronged ancestors are long dead. Even though those ancestors paid the price in the shedding of blood and death of more than 600,000 people. They are asking forgiveness for the color of their skin, something that no single person on the planet has control of.

It’s an aberration and a shame that we are witnessing this total meltdown, but I think it makes complete sense. We’ve all been indoctrinated and this is the result. Black/other ethnicities have been taught for years that they are being oppressed, and white people have been trained that they are the oppressors. When the vast, vast, vast majority of us all alive today treat people fairly and just want to live our lives in pursuit of happiness and freedom.

We are all children of God, beloved by our creator who made us, and not one of us should feel shame or regret or stress over the color of our skin or our ancestry. We have all the opportunities in the world in front of us in America, and it’s time to remind people of that. Pandering and crying and harping over the past is a hallmark of a backward society and does nothing to move us forward.

My generation of millennials and younger has been trained by the media, by advertising, by schools and universities, to feel guilty and “complicit” if our skin color is white, and to feel oppressed and marginalized if our skin color is non-white.

We’ve been trained it’s wrong to show a picture or advertisement if there are only white people in it, or an all-white family. If there’s no diversity, it’s wrong and must be corrected. I have a background in design and advertising and I don’t even consciously think about it anymore—everything produced must have the diversity angle covered or it’s “wrong”. Now the other way around, it’s beautiful to have families of colors or of mixed ethnicities.

So the natural consequence of this “all-white is wrong” eventually becomes “white is wrong”.

Which is why you have weak-minded people crying and on their knees begging forgiveness for the sins of people long dead and who we have no control of, in front of others whose wronged ancestors are long dead. Even though those ancestors paid the price in the shedding of blood and death of more than 600,000 people. They are asking forgiveness for the color of their skin, something that no single person on their planet has control of.

It’s an aberration and a shame that we are witnessing this total meltdown, but I think it makes complete sense. We’ve all been indoctrinated and this is the result. Black/other ethnicities have been taught for years that they are being oppressed, and white people have been trained that they are the oppressors. When the vast, vast, vast majority of us all alive today treat people fairly and just want to live our lives in pursuit of happiness and freedom.

We are all children of God, beloved by our creator who made us, and not one of us should feel shame or regret or stress over the color of our skin or our ancestry. We have all the opportunities in the world in front of us in America, and it’s time to remind people of that. Pandering and crying and harping over the past is a hallmark of a backward society and does nothing to move us forward.