iwannano: I understood your point in the OP precisely.
Like minds think alike. Are we sisters? Lol, sisters of the mind at least!
It's not about race - it's about who is in the majority! Or who has the power! Here in America, it happens to be whites, right now. Though we are losing our financial power to other ethnic groups. That is a reality. iwannano is saying, she, we are tired of being verbally assaulted because we are white (which happens to be the majority in this country). Minority people: we accept that you didn't 'ask' to be born the color you are. When you verbally attack/insult/bash the whites (who happens to be the majority here - where you chose to live) -- you imply that it is our fault that we are white, were born white, and that our forefathers were white. Specific individuals accept, tolerate (whatever word you wanna use) other minorities and know you didn't ask to be born that color and you can't change it, but we don't feel that you accept/tolerate the fact that we didn't ask to be born the color we are, and 'we' were not the ones who had slaves so quit blaming us for that (direct and implied), and we were not the ones who took Indian land so quit blaming us for that (direct and implied). Yes our forefathers did things that were wrong, and yours did too, but we are not our
forefathers. Before anyone asks "where does anyone say this in the thread", "who said that?: it is implied. Sometimes the message comes across louder when it is left unsaid and then of course the speakers can get defensive about being accused of 'saying' that. We are not our forefathers. You are not your forefathers. I'm tired of it too. Until and unless you've walked a mile in our shoes, stop trying to directly or indirectly blame us for the faults of the world, or of racism. Live in the present, let the past go, once you've learned from it.