-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.11 Jul 2002

It's people like you that give anti-racism a bad name. Can't you distinguish between not being ashamed to be <x> and being proud to be <x>? I'm not ashamed to be a human. But neither am I proud of it. I didn't do anything to achieve it. It doesn't make me better, in a moral sense than anything else. There is no conceivable reason why I should be proud of it. You are clearly not ashamed of being black, which I'm sure is fine and dandy. But why are you proud of it? Did you earn it? Does it make you a better person? I'm tempted to think this is a joke, since it is such an amazingly hackneyed and pointless expression of the 'self-esteem' that gets shoved down people's throats every time they leave their house or turn on their TV.