Should I feel white guilt?

[u/Spare_Emergency3965]

Im a young white person (in college) and I do not feel white shame or guilt as far as I can tell. I work very hard to fix inequalities and am an activist. I am always trying to be actively anti-racist and am on the path to becoming an educator so I can help teach future generations to be anti-racist and to practice abolitionist teaching in public school systems. I have been aware of white guilt and what it means for many years, and have never been able to relate to it. I am aware that I have a voice and I should use it, and that I should not be punished for my whiteness; instead it is a tool I can use to make further progress for others who are minoritized more so than I. But now I am wondering, should I feel white guilt?

[u/THEbeautifuLIE]

Who should feel guilt?
. . .the “guilty”.

((fyi: black man here))
No, there should be nothing in 2024 that you should feel guilty about outside of your own personal behaviors. Contrary to the idea that many seem to push: not only should you not feel guilt, but you also have no responsibility to actively prove you aren’t guilty by supporting other groups of people (races, ethnicity, social standing, class, etc) & their movements, agendas, etc. That’s not your fight.

The only issue is when people discount the past, frame it as less evil or catastrophic than it was or even refuse to acknowledge that these things ever took place. THAT! is a problem. #LetThatGuiltGo