What exactly is "white guilt" ?

Question

Where did this phrase originate ?

Answer 1

It's a song by THE BRONX. You can see the video on youtube.

It's also a theory that some white people feel remorse for the pain that their ethnic group inflicted on minorities and, as a result, they try to right the wrong in some way.  

Answer 2

Here it is in wikipedia --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_guilt

I'm not sure of what it is exactly,but I always hear that white people feel guilty becuase of the blacks being slaves years ago.

I don't see this though, what I see is fear, whites now FEAR black people and let them have their way, what with 'affirmative action', lawsuits by blacks because they use RACE as an excuse for EVERY reason they are done wrong, so whites are in fear of this.

If you are ever in Atlanta GA, you will see this in less than a minute anywhere you look.

Answer 3

It's what's going to put Obama into the White House.

Answer 4

Do you really think that slavery was a simple matter of black on black African tribal capture?  Europeans were notorious for lying and having things their way.  The reason why some white people may have guilt is because racism is still happening in America.  If black people were advantageous over everything and every white person had the capacity for white guilt, then black people would be running the show in the white house NOT the wealthy christian heterosexual white male.  

Answer 5

i not going to say... so just

google.com

Answer 6

     Eric Gans wrote:

The original use of this term refers to the guilt experienced by whites over the unfair advantages they owe to racism. Two books published in 1997 contain the phrase in their titles: Race Card: White Guilt, Black Resentment, and the Assault on Truth and Justice, ed. Peter Collier and David Horowitz, and Black Anxiety, White Guilt, and the Politics of Status Frustration by T. Alexander Smith and Lenahan O’Connell; in 2006 Shelby Steele wrote White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era.

But since in our intuitive semiotic system white is not, as the optics treatises tell us, a combination of all the colors, but the absence of color—the state of unmarkedness—I feel justified in defining white guilt by metaphysical rather than mere physical whiteness.

     He best sums it up here:

No doubt the notion of white guilt in Western culture depends on a coincidence of the metaphysical and the physical, but it is the first that is primary: white guilt is the guilt of the unmarked toward the marked.

http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1202...

     Check this out...semi-interesting

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/why-i-feel-...