It strikes me that in our never-ending quest to create subsets of society, white people, the white male specifically, are the only group where it's not okay to feel "pride" about who you are. Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans....all are encouraged to take pride in their heritage. Gays and trans are encouraged to take pride in who they are. Women, of all color, are encouraged to take pride in their feminism. But to be white is to be "privileged". Guilt is encouraged, not pride. In fact, to feel "white pride" is to be racist. I just think it an interesting observation that in a society that preaches equality and unity, we have this white bogeyman, and oddly, the very people at the top of this society are mostly older white men who seem to encourage this myth. It just furthers my opinion that government does not want unity of the people, mostly because that would make us harder to control. Better to have us at odds with each other, divided by the past, rather than uniting for the future.
Sure, I sound a little paranoid, but I think there are grains of truth there. Why else cast the sins of our forefathers on the sons of today? I believe most people just want to live their lives peacefully and happily, but society has a way of stirring up resentments based mostly on past aggressions. Yes, we still have bad people, of every race, religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation, but those bad people do not and should not define our entire society. They should be seen as the aberrations they are, and not as indicative of the whole of society.
At heart, I'm an idealist that believes we should be able to put aside our pettiness and be better people. Unfortunately, reality has yet to catch up with what I envision. Perhaps it never will. But much like MLK, I believe in a dream of a better world. A world where we can put aside what makes us different, and instead focus on what makes us all the same.