America’s Current Conception Of ‘Pride’ Is Toxic

America’s Current Conception Of ‘Pride’ Is Toxic - By Vince Coyner

"...every man who signed the Declaration of Independence and was involved with crafting the Constitution was white. 

Simply put, there would be no United States without white men.

After almost 250 years, however, the life of the average American is not directly affected by what those white men did in Philadelphia. Indirectly, however, we experience daily a world built upon the foundations they laid…and they created that foundation thanks to the inventions and innovations of other white men.

...There are countless other white men who improved our lives, including George Eastman, the personal camera innovator; Charles Goodyear...and in reality, millions of others.
The fact of the matter is that these white men built much of the world in which we live today...

As such, we should celebrate White Male Pride! Yay!
But here’s the thing: Although these white men may have accomplished much, white men have also done extraordinarily bad things…from Jack the Ripper to Hitler to Stalin to Teds Kaczynski and Bundy.
We can’t celebrate white male pride because white men are not monolithic. Some white men are great, and others are despicable human beings. The thing that made America great wasn’t the fact that her Founding Fathers were white but, rather, it was the ideas they had and the framework they put in place.

• The notion of white pride is simply absurd. 
• For the same reason, black and LGBTQ+ pride are also absurd...