The Fallacy of White Privilege

[Belsnickel]

(11-19-2016, 02:09 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Celebrating one's national heritage is not the same as celebrating one's race. Do we have Black Pride celebrations? Or do we have Ethiopian Celebrations, Nigerian Celebrations, Kenyan Celebrations, etc.?

Seems to me that YOU are the one that needs to be educated in the difference between race and nationality.

I don't really care about the argument continuing on here about white privilege. I just kind of wanted to comment on this. Race and ethnicity/nationality are indeed two different things. Within the white race, however, we have the benefit of knowing our distinct ethnicities. We can trace back to our ancestors in England, Ireland, Scandinavia, wherever, and find people that we can identify with in that way.

For the black race, that is really their ethnicity as well for most of them. The borders that the European colonialists put in place really didn't apply to their people. Their ethnic cultures are all but lost to the ages because their ancestors were yanked from a land that was then colonized and ruled over by people that had no understanding nor concern for tribal boundaries and cultural divisions. So being black can be as much an ethnic identification as a racial one because that is all the connection they will have to their culture.

This isn't to say that there aren't any specific ethnic celebrations for those of African descent. I have mentioned before that there is an annual Igbo festival near me, but for most black people they have no way of knowing their tribal ancestry.