Question Everything Or Die Ignorant.

I feel bad for being white…too often when I look at certain tags. I’m all for the idea of equality in every sense of the word. I don’t generalize people based on their race, their gender, their age, their political views, their beliefs…I can go on. I recognize that I, in general, am privileged, I am white. But I am also a female, who loves people despite gender and I am not even close to being upper-class and can be considered lower middle class. Which is why the idea of generalizations based on literally everything that can possibly fall into a statistic, bother me. I don’t like going to blogs about people being (Insert race/gender/etc blog) being initially supportive of what they’re saying and then them going on, not about white privilege, (which does  exist and I would have no issue with) but instead going on and making generalizations about all white people being racist and bigoted. I understand why people would be angry, I do. At the same time I don’t think accusing every single person of being racist is necessarily going to help a cause, if anything it would hurt it since to achieve equality we must achieve tolerance as well as forgiveness. I don’t expect it, yet it’s what in my opinion many people want. Maybe it’s just how I’ve been lately, I am in AP US History and I constantly read of the horrible things people of my race have done, to each other, to other people, to everyone. I can’t help but feel horrible for things I would never consider doing myself. I can’t help but feel as if I’m at fault, personally; even though personally it was not my fault. It was a lot of people who were too concerned with progress and not with the fact other human beings were being hurt in the long run. I don’t know, I just feel horrible all the time now. I’m not trying to deny the fact I am privileged or attack people who do feel anger at white people or some sort of contempt, it’s understandable. I simply am just too empathetic currently and bothered to care that by posting this it’s possible I’ll be verbally “attacked”.