The Age of Innocence

The time of innocence We grew up thinking whiteness had to do with skin colour, since we came from a Nordic country this made sense; the lack of sun and so on. Now it is political. Whiteness is responsible for all ills in the world a good thing to remember when getting up at six walking to the fish factory, putting in long hours for a meagre pay packet. We know of the intrepid, who colonized the East and Africa, we did not benefit from this other then asked to give our hard-earned money to a religious mission to help the starving. We resent being called racist, we were as poor as those we sent money to; at a time when we had to steal coal at the railway depot and plunder potatoes in a farmer’s field. Great composers, noted scientists, inventors and prodigious writers were white contributed to their skills to make life bearable; yes, we are proud of them and feel no guilt in our whiteness.