Is it OK to say "I'm proud to be black"?

To illustrate how lefties and progressives have gotten to ya, think about the following slogan:

I'm proud to be black
I'm proud to be a woman
I'm proud to be a black woman
I'm proud to be white
I'm proud to be a man
I'm proud to be a white man

On 1-3 scale of "OK-ness", I bet most people would give the following score:
1,2,3,-1,-2,-3

Why is this?

And the funny thing is, were all races and gender equal as liberals/lefties had propagated, wouldn't all that be virtually the same?

Or may be, just may be, everybody and everybody knows, that those progressives are moving toward exactly an opposite direction?

Hey, you wanna true equality? Go with the market option, where discrimination will be greeted with loss of profits and low efficiency.

How many black senators are there? And you can google the diversity of employment from both private and public sectors. The answer will amaze you: US govt is amazingly racist and sexist. (Do I even have to bring up Hillary vs Kerry, 'Bros before Hos'?)

A word of advice: do everything exactly what the progressives told you not to. After all, everyone knows what progressives had become after cuba had its agrarian reform.

 

Nothing wrong with being proud to be black.

Your parents, grandparents struggled against oppression and overcame it. The beatings, hosings what have you....they endured.

Nothing wrong with being proud of being white. Nothing like holding another race to a lesser standard than you, beating them down when they think they have rights. Treating them like animals.

Be proud of it and embrace it.

 

Pride in yourself for the actions of others makes no sense

 

Not if you're an Obama supporter... Or a lil' wayne/Chris Brown fan.

 

Pride is a sin...

 

Unworthy pride is a sin.

Stuff you earned isn't.

 

iv never met a god who had a problem with pride

 

I don't see what the point is in "black pride" or "white pride" because its nothing you acheived, its just the way God made you.

And it seems to me that the people are most proud of their race are the people who are pretty bare on personal acheivements.

Like the Nazis. They were mostly people of modest achievement, working class people without much education, with no personal accomplishments to brag about.

There were a few educated Nazis, like Albert Speer, but he was the exception that proved the rule.

And the modern Aryan movement recruits from the white trash of America, the criminals in prison, people with nothing to brag about at all since their life is one of failure and disappointment.

It was only at the height of the KKK that men of accomplishment were among their ranks. And when men of accomplishment left the KKK, they sunk into irrelevancy.

 

Black americans, not blacks in general, have something to celebrate. Their sit-ins, freedom riders and marches were a straight up in you face attack against discrimination.

I bow my head to these brave people. It wasn't about war, it wasn't about money, it wasn't about pride, it was about being equal. Straight up I admire them.

The same as I do the first men who stood up to the British in that little square and spouted off their rhetoric knowing full well they were going to be shot.

That my friends is America.

 

It's true, some people really are special. So special they can be proud of themselves and their race. I bet they all ride in the same short bus together too.

 

I think it is alright to be proud of your race whoever you are and whatever race you happen to be. But it doesn't make you better than anyone else.

All of us share ancestors who have done great and despicable things. Doubtless somewhere in the past each of us has an ancestor who has profited off the exploitation of others. We also have many who were decent and just.

Without them all we would not exist, but racial pride should not be about stereotypes or about retribution, it should just be about being proud of those who have given us all a chance to live.

This thread is about thinking in a very narrow way. As if someone else being proud of something can detract from our own ability to feel proud. Or as if not being able to feel superior to others based on incidentals like race somehow can degrade you.

This is all pointless, vain and immature.

How much of a fool do you have to be to expect anyone to respect you based on your race?

I will not post here again.

 

I personally hold no pride in my skin color, I dont think anyone should. However if its ok to be proud of one color, its ok for everyone else to be proud of theirs.

 

None of those are ok. Pride should never be felt for something that happens by accident of birth. If you did not have to work to achieve it, you do not have the right to be proud of it. Unwarranted pride always leads to arrogance.

 

Blacks would be better off if they had freed themselves. That would be something to be proud of, something they could look back at and say, that's an achievement.

But blacks didn't win their own freedom, and they didn't sacrifice for their own freedom, and they didn't die for their own freedom. White men did all that. 700,000 white Americans fought and died so that blacks could be freed.

So while whites consider freedom something they've fought for and earned in the Revolutionary War, blacks consider freedom to be a gift from the white man, something that they got for nothing, not earned.

And this sense of freedom as a gift from the white man has terrible consequences down to this generation, because black people still think that everything they have is a gift from the white man, and that they should not have to earn anything for themselves, but wait until white people give it to them.

And Obama encourages this attitude of entitlement in black people. He tells them that they should vote for him to have "revenge" against white people. And the revenge is, he will take wealth and privilege away from whites and redistribute it to blacks.

But they will still not be earning it.

 

The liberal media and political elite make it seem as if it is bad to be proud to be white, yet openly celebrate multi-culturalism. However, I know many blacks and hispanics have no problem with whites showing pride in their various nationalities so long as theirs are respected as well. Its just another media-created divisive tactic used to separate the electorate into reliable voting blocs. Ultimately, if whites are really that bad and shouldn't take pride in their culture, while minorities are encouraged to do so with theirs, then that implies the minorities are somehow more child like and need attention. If we really all are created equal, then nothing at all can be wrong with a White Entertainment Network, or White Magainzes, etc.

 

If anyone brings up gay pride in the same context, I'm going to bring out the verbal (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)-slapping.

I don't see anything particularly wrong with being proud of one's race. It's unearned, but meh, it happens. The problem here is connotation. When I say "black pride", people think of the struggle of the civil rights movement. When I say "white pride", people think of at best the people who really didn't get black pride, and at worst the people who looked like this. It's stupid to be proud of your racial achievements, but that's as far as it goes, really... Everything else is a matter of historical context.

 

Good words.

 

I can totally agree with that, but it is not the case.

Consider a black man yelling "I'm proud to be black" people would automatically assume he was wronged, and would look at him for a while till they figured out he was trying to be funny. Then they would shrug and smile it off.

What about a white guy yelling"I'm proud to be white!" In the middle of the street? People would cast a disapproval glance, then murmur:Whatta racist prick.

 

Sure if you are absolutely useless and have no other worthwhile accomplishment in your life beyond the color of your skin that was bequeathed you by your parents.

 

White pride. Why not?

 

To be proud of ones genetic heritage? Why skin color? How about eye color of hair color? Why does skin matter so much more than other parts of the anatomy? We are all various shades of brown from pinkish to blackish.

 

And of course, the funniest thing about it is that race, as we understand it, is completely unbacked by genetics.

 

The thing is, thee special interest groups don't want equality. What they want is special treatment. This is a perfect example of that.

 

Dude everyone is a special interest. As the power of goverment waxes the number of people desiring to plead their case in those princincts increases.

 

the OP illustrates the lefty double standard very well in my view.

I think it's okay, but so whould it be okay to say i'm a proud white man. currently, it isn't.