Are you into collective guilt?
Do you blame all Muslims for 9/11? All Blacks for gang warfare in Chicago? All Jews for Bernie Madoff?
If so, you\’re going to love this.
Here is the last paragraph of an orgy of self-flagellation and collective guilt, courtesy of someone named Baynard Woods, who edits the Baltimore City Paper weekly, and is thought enough of by the Washington Post to have this example of his wit and wisdom published on its pages:
Of course, 99 percent of southern whites will never go into a church, sit down with people and then massacre them. But that 99 percent is responsible for the one who does. We white southerners – those of us who left, the others who stayed, and even those millions who have migrated to the Sun Belt – are all Dylann Roof. We are all responsible. We cannot shirk it. We cannot go forward until we fix ourselves. We must organize ourselves, educate ourselves and come together to fight against white supremacy. If we don\’t, there will always be another Dylann Roof around the corner. And in the mirror.
Got that? If you were born southern and White, you are responsible for a deranged racist lunatic massacring people in Charleston, South Carolina. Regardless of your personal attitudes about race, and regardless of whether you even live in the south anymore.
This is the collective guilt intersection of Broadway and Main Street.
I award Baynard Woods Paragraph Of The Day honors, for demonstrating with 100% clarity what prejudice and hatred are all about…….just not in the way he intended.
