A strong series veers into gross error with the above and with a white character feeling ashamed because other whites are racist.
Why? She's as far from racist as you can imagine, but she's somehow responsible for or connected to that racism? Why--what does the execrable behavior or attitude of others with whom she shares only pigmentation have to do with her? The idea that whiteness bears some sort of Original Sin with regard to race is obscene and has no place in either fiction or moral philosophy.
Why? She's as far from racist as you can imagine, but she's somehow responsible for or connected to that racism? Why--what does the execrable behavior or attitude of others with whom she shares only pigmentation have to do with her? The idea that whiteness bears some sort of Original Sin with regard to race is obscene and has no place in either fiction or moral philosophy.
