White Privilege is not the cause of the plague of racism.  Black Entitlement is not its cure.  Slavery was not its source. Without identifying where racism comes from and where it resides still, we are doomed to forever suffer its ills.  The targeting of White Privilege at our universities and in the media for the perceived lack of sufficient guilt and recompense for the slavery of 150 years ago is a damaging misdirection of the truth. Slavery is wrong.  We know that.  But slavery was never about race. No matter the color of the finger that points, the slave owning European settlers did not introduce slavery to North America in 1619.  Those who lived here prior to the founding of Jamestown, Virginia warred against, dispossessed of their land, maimed, murdered, captured, and enslaved other Native Americans.  All before (White) Europeans arrived. After they arrived, the system of slavery in our country had three components.  First was...(Read Full Post)