this is how I feel and believe.  I am tired of being told I have to feel guilty of events that are and were beyond my control.  I am living in the present and not the past.  I need to know the past so that I don't make the same mistakes that others made in the past.  Failure to know the past to develop a better future is not a crime.

Yes I am of European stock.  Yes my skin colour is white.  But no, I am not going to apologize for the past.  It is done and over with and neither I nor my family had anything to do with what went on.

But this is what the liberal, progressive left, and the politically correct want.  It has no longer become a want but a demand.  Well too bad.  I am not lowering myself to ignorance when I have learn from life experiences and history that together we can develop a better future.  I will not apologize what other people have done based on the colour of my skin and neither should anyone else.

There are ignorant people out there who need to give their heads a shake and stop with the abusiveness they produce because they don't like something.  And that goes for everyone of every skin colour.  To hear some people talk, you would think that there is nothing located in their brains.  Some of the things I have heard, causes me to believe that some people have never learned a thing from the past, and again that goes for all skin colours and not just whites.

We need to understand that we live in a plural society and that our thinking is plural.  There is no room for racism, there is no room for stupidity.  The problem is; that we learn our experiences as the present time from events that have occurred around us.  We learn from our parents and how they perceived their world.  We learn from our own dealings with others.

If racism can be taught, it can be untaught.  Since humans learn everything, they need to be taught everything.  We calculate our understanding from events that have been played out as we grow.  We need to understand that what we have learned, can be also be changed.  There is no reason why people can not learn to live together.

But what is taking place?  Through protests and demonstrations, people have become isolated and have become drawn within themselves.  Through no fault of anyone, actions of others have caused many people to go underground as it were, and to seek out people with like thoughts and understanding to almost in secretly come together.  As if one's point of view is so dangerous that they have to hide.  And this is what is going on.

People want to be left alone.  People want to be able to live without fear.  When there are demonstrations, the average person has now become fearful and are refusing to venture out of their social circles (that's if they have one) and live life. 

We have not learned from history, because history is no longer taught.  We no longer look at ourselves and others as equals simply because no one does that anymore.  We no longer wish for a better future because stupidity has taken over by those who have not learned from the past, have no idea what their nation nor their history is all about.

The demands made by protestors are ridiculous and carry an assumed understanding of something they have no understanding of.

To put it simply -- we as a society of western democracy are totally fucked.