white guilt

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This makes no sense. Why be ashamed of something some people did? You were not involved.

Experiencing white guilt because of this movie would be like blacks experiencing black guilt for the fact that black males commit the VAST majority of crimes in today's America.

I don't think it's guilt I felt, more of an angry response to the film. One point I thought Spike was making with this whole film was that Americans NEED to see this kind of stuff. He made this film so over the top racist and extreme because he wanted white America to know it's not ok to think all blacks act like the one's you see on MTV. He wanted us to know how oppressed blacks still are, and he wanted an angry, guilty, and sad response to this film, because that's the only way he can inspire change.

At the very least, he wants you to never show those images/shows to your children and to KNOW how wrong they are.

"I speed write, and my loose leaf's my launch pad"

This film was great, as good as 25th hour and inside man for different reasons but what I do not understand is this race guilt, white or otherwise.
If I feel guilty for being white should I also feel guilt for being straight, poor, tall, educated, liking big butts etc? I am happy to feel guilt in some small way for all recognised cardinal sins as it keeps me grounded as there are people who have it worse off than me but if you let it really get to you then the guilt will prevent you from functioning and so any hope of changing society and righting wrongs. Is lost. Maybe I do not feel guilt for anything which had nothing to do with me or my parents, grandparents and to be truthful there is no guarantee that any of my ancestors were racists and even if they were why is that so bad if they prevented it from hurting another human being as it was their choice so why should I care?
I do care about history and accept that things were different and arguably now wrong though not necessarily then in that context but knowing the problems I can try to prevent them from happening again in the hope that on some level humans have evolved.
There is a great bit in the movie when sleepneat states that ‘it’s all a cycle’, which history shows us it is, hell even Elton John won an Oscar for stating the obvious. Black people screwed over black people long before ol’ whity showed up and when they did they acted on their base instincts to continue screwing over their own people enabling slavery. White people had sickly already enslaved other races including themselves through religion and class as well as sex before race. We now know through Anthropology that despite what ‘Sister thinks about men on the moon’, we were all black once and possibly black people will one day be white or maybe if we are lucky we will all be tanned. What is offensive is that white people feel guilty at all as they are separating themselves from black people as the same race origins which if is to be believe should make white people actually guilty for enslaving their ancestors which is pretty messed up. The film alludes to this crazy ignorance and it was amazing to see Spike Lee putting it all out there and telling people to carry the past with you but not in front of you as it will burden your future. Also the hip-hop gansta’ black stereotype perpetrated and endorsed by so called black society was wonderfully mocked as a new form of slavery which Delacroix refused to conform to and was subsequently made a parier by all races though his nonconformity was actually based on choice rather than cultural inheritance and laziness as I do not believe he was French. I.e. a great Gatsby character. ‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past'. Which is a real danger with people in society feeling guilt for anything they did not contribute to or condone but again ironically fail to do anything about. In conclusion it was sad when Mrs. Smith actually became a stereotype herself betraying her character and the director failed to demonstrate the evil or ambivalence within the black races against its own people whereupon both writer and assistant would have more realistically revelled in their success and refuse to conform to mass hysteria or even common perceived human decency instead favouring the Capitalist American Dream which the TV execs proudly spurted. Though in defence of Mr. Jones he did portray a black gang member laughing at the minstrels and Delacroix accepting awards for his perceived betrayal of a race which clearly wished to hold him back through its’ obsession and downright refusal to let the past be done.

i have never been a racist. so no, i don't feel any guilt.

but the racists will certainly want to keep bringing it up.

i'm white and i love both fried chicken AND watermelon.

So I guess you're pretty big on sins of the father? I personally can't apologize for an offense I never committed. Should a German child born today feel uncomfortable around a joo?

"I do what I say and I say what I mean"