In America pride is a funny thing but apparently it is only open to certain groups of people. If you want to be loud and proud you can be as long as your not loud, proud, and white. There are many groups focused around pride whether its for their sexuality or their skin color. A perfect place to find these pride groups are on many of the popular social networking websites. The one I have in mind currently is the ever so popular Facebook. While I am a member of this social network and many of my readers are as well, I do enjoy the site. However after a recent incident I am enjoying it a little less. Up until recently I have had little issue with Facebook and I currently am not having any problems with them unlike a friend of mine that is. He is a proud white man and at times he is overly proud. If you ask him if he is racist 9 times out of 10 he will answer no then follow it up with he hates everyone. While I don’t know if he hates everyone I know that he can find complaints about people of any color. So maybe in your mind he is racist but that is for you to decide. I can say he is a proud white man and there is nothing wrong with being a proud white man, is there? Apparently in some peoples eyes being a proud white automatically makes you a racist.
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Here is what went down involving my friend. While he was bored one evening he started looking for pride groups on Facebook.com. He quickly noticed there were no groups for white pride, so he decided to start one. He named the group, “White Pride World Wide” and the first picture for the group he used had the same words. As he wrote the description of the group he made it very clear in the beginning that the group was not about racism but instead a place for proud whites to go. Within a few hours he changed to a new group picture to one that read, “Pride Not Hate.” Seems to me that he was attempting to make it known to everyone the group page was not a racist page. He talked on there about putting together a White Pride Day and even told a few people that if the event would happen he would ask everyone to wear white shirts. My friend formed the group on a Sunday night and on Tuesday morning is when the drama began. My friend attempted to log on to his Facebook account and he received a message saying his account had been disabled. Right away he knew why, all because he was proud. He set to work writing a nice and polite email to Facebook that explained his reasoning behind starting the page and also pointing out that there are many other pride groups on Facebook. In the meantime he had talked to a few friends including myself and explained what had happen and what steps he had taken so far. Then the slap to the face came, about 45 minutes after sending the email to Facebook, my friend received a text message from another friend telling him that his account on Facebook had been completely deleted. My friends existence came to a complete end in a blink of an eye, he no longer existed in the Facebook world. He received no warning, POOF! He was gone. My friend was mad of course over the whole issue but he had his laughs about it too. Some of his other friends later that day formed a bring George back to Facebook page. Well, no thanks to Facebook but George is back and he is trying to be good, for how long nobody knows.
This whole incident of course interested me. In the past I have written on the whole racism against white people. Depending who you ask you will get different answers as to does racism against white exist or is their discrimination against white people. While I for one believe there is discrimination and racism towards white people and this event involving my friend is just more proof. Like me, he too is a white male, he loves his country but doesn’t trust his government, he believes there are useless waste of life in every group of people no matter what their color is, he is proud of his German and Irish ancestry, and he is proud of being white. We always hear of famous Black Americans but when was the last time someone referred to George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, as famous White Americans? That’s right, you can’t. What did you learn in the public schools during white history month? Nothing, it does not exist, but every February we have black history month. So, with my friends issue still fresh in my mind I set out to do some research. I went onto our favorite social networking site, www.facebook.com and I began searching. My first search was for white pride, my search results 0. My next search was for black pride and the results returned over 50 groups. Search number 3 was for Latino Pride and no surprise it returned over 30 groups. Search number 4 yielded the largest number of returns over 100 and that was gay pride. Additional searches also showed smaller numbers of groups for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Pride. So Facebook is telling everyone that’s it is okay to have pride if you are anything but white. But wait wasn’t Facebook founded by a bunch of white guys? Well, thank you for asking that question. The answer is yes, it was founded by white guys. Today, Facebook stock is broken up to many different collectors. The largest stakeholder for Facebook is it employees, collecting 30%. I can’t tell you who makes up the employees of Facebook but I sure its safe to say a large mix of people from all backgrounds. Then comes Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg who alone collects 24% of Facebook’s income. Co-founder Dustin Moskovitz collects 6%, Co-founder Eduardo Saverin collects 5%, Napster’s Sean Parker, Founding President of Facebook: collects 4%, Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm collects 10%, Goldman Sachs collects 0.8%, Goldman Sachs’ clients collects 3%, Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm collects 1.5%, Meritech Capital Partners collects 1.5%, Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and Clarium Capital president collects 3%, Elevation Partners (that’s U2′s Bono among others) collects1.5%, and a few other investors collect a combined 9.7%. Since Mark Zuckerberg is the top man for Facebook and the top money maker, lets pick on him.
It is not know for sure whether Mark is Liberal or Conservative but we can look at some facts and you the reader can decide. I asked the question, is Mark Zuckerberg a Democrat or a Republican to the website www.answers.com and this is the answer I received. “The answer previous to mine that stated that Mark Zuckerberg is a republican is factually inaccurate, Mark Zuckerberg has stated himself that he is neither a Republican or Democrat, however he is from a Jewish family and is an atheist, both tend to lean to the left. He also graduated from Phillips-Exeter Academy, the finest high school in the country, and the same as two of Americans greatest Authors John Irving and Gore Vidal (both very liberal). He in addition attended Harvard (extremely liberal) and is seemingly anti-censorship, and very charitable. Through reasonable assumption I would guess he would be very liberal and unfaithful to either political party.” Well, that spells it out pretty good, I would have to agree, with that background I would say he leans to the left side of the fence. If it is true that he leans to the left side I think it would be safe to say this is the reasoning my friend got the boot from Facebook. My friend like me tends to lean more to the right. He calls a spade a spade and like me if he hurts someones feelings well it has been said that the truth hurts.
I want to make it clear, I am not supporting any type of racism. I too am a proud white male and I voice my opinion on any subject brought to my attention. Like many Americans we are proud of where we came from. I am proud that members of my family have served in every war since and including the Revolutionary War. When the southern states decided they no longer wanted to be controlled by a government of the North because they believed in states rights, my family proudly fought for the South. My family didn’t own slaves, they were farmers that worked their own land. They fought for the South not to preserve slavery but to preserve their own rights and their own property. One of the core Freedoms of being an American is our Freedom of Speech. However, this freedom has been limited and at times silenced by many politicians. Freedom of Speech only exist if you are in favor of liberal beliefs, when you speak against them they try to silence you. By making a White Pride group he was not being disrespectful to any other people, he was not threatening or bullying other people. He was simply showing his pride. Meanwhile, there are black pride groups on Facebook that use the clenched black fist that is recognized as black power symbol and is also associated with the Black Panthers. How can these groups exist? Facebook claims it does not take political sides. I disagree, how can you say you don’t take political sides when you allow symbols of black power and the racist corrupt organization symbol of the Black Panthers to continuously be used? If you are going to claim to be equal then be equal to everyone. If one single group can not have a pride group then nobody should be allowed to have a pride group. Pride and prejudice are two different things. Unless you are a white person then there is no difference. Whites face racism just as much as any other group in America today. Who is to blame for this? White people are passed over for jobs because of the governments Affirmative Action that promotes quotes or percentages of minorities in areas. I don’t care the skin color of the person doing should matter to the job as long as that person is the highest qualified and hardest working person for that position. Thanks to Affirmative Action your qualifications for a job take a backseat to your skin color. While in other writings I have stated how I feel the Church is the most corrupt organized crime family in the world, the United States Government is one of the largest and most racist groups in the world. It is the government that continues to force the race card on people. It is because of laws such as Affirmative Action that cause racism. When others stand up and speak of pride it is allowed and good but when a white person speaks up he is called a racist. The only white people that can publicly have open pride are those that are gay. Gay pride is okay because you are now considered a minority group. I have no problems with the gays either, what you do in your bedroom is none of my business. It all comes back to pride. Maybe we as white people are not suppose to be proud. We are not suppose to be proud that our country’s founding fathers were white men, that a white man was the first to walk on the moon, and that white men created the first airplane? Are we not suppose to be proud of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first white female doctor in the United States, Sally Ride the first female in space, should we not be proud of Betsy Ross the woman that created the first American Flag? Of course not, none of these people are important to American History why should we as white Americans be proud of what these great white people did to help form this country.
As long as there are groups out there to help protect the none white Americans, as long as the government continues to force white discrimination laws such as Affirmative Action, as long as the media and social networking sites continue to allow others to show their pride and call whites racist by trying to show their pride then racism will never end. So many people preach that we must end racism in America, well you can’t end something that the media and the government are forcing on to its viewers and citizens. Racism doesn’t end with me or you, it doesn’t end with laws such as Affirmative Action. Racism will end when the media and the government stop promoting it. Until then, we as white American must continue to hold our heads high and not let anyone put us down for being who we are, proud white Americans. We must support one another in our pride because we are all that we have. Support my friend as he makes his return to Facebook. By supporting my friend George you are telling him we as white Americans support him and we will send a message to Facebook letting them know that their liberal beliefs and actions will not hold us down. Pride is not racism, pride is being happy with who you are and where you came from.
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