Yes.
Many of my more moderate to liberal minded white readers have wondered how to overcome white guilt. Now, some of you might have thought that Ted Danson’s advice—do a minstrel show in blackface—would be appreciated by the African American community (apparently, only two, Whoopi Goldberg and Clarence Thomas appreciated it), or like so many of our white youth, simply listening to rap music and tossing the N-word at your friends would help you understand the black experience, or that voting for Barack Obama would give you street “cred.” Alas, I must inform you, that none of this really makes up for the centuries of slavery and segregation and the great racial abyss that still exists in this country.
I find that the immortal ballad made famous by that riveting black singer, Garrett Morris, best illuminates how we should go about assuaging our white guilt: “I’m gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see, when I kill all the whiteys I see, whitey he won't bother me, I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see.” Inspirational, motivational words to live by.
If all white folks would just go out and kill all the whiteys they saw, just imagine how that would resolve the black-white tensions in this country. Maybe then our nation could truly heal.
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