[16] One academic paper suggests that in France, white guilt may be a common feature of management of race relations – in contrast to other European countries.
"[18] American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin wrote that reparations for slavery would be an exploitation of white guilt and damage the "integrity of blacks".
[19] In 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama wrote in his book The Audacity of Hope that "rightly or wrongly, white guilt has largely exhausted itself in America".
Steele called this a disingenuous bid for political power by using white guilt to claim exclusive moral authority.
Parents complained, calling it a white guilt video, which led to a ban by the county's superintendent.
[29] Author Sally Morgan 1987's book My Place, which explores Aboriginal identity, has come under critique for providing European Australians with a narrative of colonization in Australia which, critics argue, considerably minimizes white settler guilt.
It gives release and relief, not so much to Aboriginal people oppressed by psychotic racism, as to the whites who wittingly and unwittingly participated in it".
[31][32] Then opposition leader Bill English gave a speech in 2002 in which he rejected the "cringing guilt" said to be felt amongst the Pākehā as a result of the colonisation of Aotearoa by their ancestors.
[32] English's speech came in response to the government's Race Relations Commissioner, who compared the impact of the colonisation of New Zealand to the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban.
To be socially liberal, in my view, is to be more mindful of compassion and empathy for others…to label that simply as guilt is just...insulting.
It won't bring back Walter Scott, Trayvon Martin or Brandon Moore.