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"Pride" in race is not so much about being proud how great you are; it's about not being ashamed. Not being ashamed that your skin is a different color or hair is different or accents are different than those of the people on TV who are held up as the acme of success and desirability.
In that sense, you can have white pride; you can simply be not ashamed, feel you have nothing to live up to. Same with black pride, Asian pride, Latino pride, or whatever. It's not about being better, it's about being equal, so that you don't have to look different or sound different to measure up. That's my take, anyway, and the take of most people of color I know who are serious people. There are idiots in any cause or movement, of course.
Although personally, rather than just having white pride I factor in my ethnic group -- Portuguese-American pride, just as others are proud of an Italian heritage, a Dutch heritage, a German heritage, and so on.
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