Individual or collective guilt felt by white people for harm to racial or ethnic groups from racist treatment.

It is often felt by liberals

The belief that being white itself is a transgression and that atonement is required.

Unclear. But Judith Katz author and anti-racism trainer writes about it in 1978 in her book White Awareness.

Seeking forgiveness and acceptance from minorities.

Social policies

Voting for Black politicians (like Obama)

Business Dealings

Grants

Savior-complex

Over-identification with marginalized groups per Krissah Thompson of the Washington Post of Rachel Doziel

Self-hate

Interracial dating and relationships.

Trans-racial adoptions.

It can be self-indulgent

It can place burdens on POCs.

It can traumatize POCs.

It can placate

It can seek innocence (George Will said this)

It can come up short with progress by feeling self-congratulatory

It disempowers

It leads to shame.

It seeks to resolve itself

It can shut down conversations as people feel guilty.

It can lead to withdrawal from cross race interactions.

It can lead to tokenism

White guilt can be seen as compassion and empathy

White guilt is an example of awareness.

White guilt is Black power as whites lose moral authority according to ( Shelby Steele conservative writer)

To some extent.

But it can cause more burdens and come up short and lead to tokenism.

According to the anatomy of white guilt paper there is a healthy and unhealthy aspect of white guilt.

It is a normal and necessary human emotion that can be healthy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_guilt

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=white guilt

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/style/white-guilt-privilege.html

The anatomy of white guilt

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/magazine/white-debt.html

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