WASP: Finding My Family’s Truths | Jenny Watts | TEDxPasadena

Yap yap yap...the most air headed talk on TED...no real solution for blacks...only fairytale belief in the imaginary...platitudes for blacks...lipservice for blacks to feel good about a white person say they are guilty for slavery. Blacks need to do more for themselves in order to get ahead...Another white person isn't going to lift blacks out of poverty in the US.

Is this going to help blacks feel better or improve their lot? Or all wasp feel guilty? And why personally is she feeling guilty for the sins of her ancestors? They will bear and answer for their own.

Oh boy, identity politics...

Great job, Jenny; very moving and thoughtful talk about very complex matters.

All the world is a stage.

Why do I hear crunching?

I’m a WASP he grew up in a place where men did NOT wear pin striped suits; they wore bib overalls, or a work coat if the weather was cold. They DID, however, get up at six a.m.

I get sick of people acting like all white people come from a background like hers. Most do NOT.

p.s. Everyone’s ancestors did both good and bad things.

p.p.s. She’s melodramatic.

This woman doesn't look ango-saxon at all, she looks semitic. If she is a WASP, she's mixed. Probably part jewish if I were to take a guess. Jewish privilege is very much a real thing, WASP privilege not so much. The former WASP ruling class is totaly powerless today. Its not 1955 you know.

Very courageous!

The White Guilt is overflowing from this woman.

I think wasp community's are welcomed right now.

She never even mentioned the word WASP or WASP culture and ethnicity.

So y’all gonna cough up all that old money to the descendants of those slaves 👀

I’m a proud WASP and you can’t change my mind

They'll never apologize or even acknowledge how they treated Irish/Polish and Italian Immigrants through the early 1900s In America.

Why do wasps feel guilty?

They've had it just as tough as anyone else, check out the shankhill road in Belfast if you want to see working class non entitled wasps who've lived through war

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 A real WASP familt lines are people who arrived in the 1600’s, sometimes 1700’s from Scotland and England. They were Puritan or Quaker and morally opposed to Slavery. They settled Massachusetts, RI, CT, VT and Maine. They NEVER owned slaves. They owned books, they treated everyone as they wished to be treated. They values Education and hard work. They did not whine. They took personal responsibility. They came to this land so they would never again be judged by their family, east their Father or Ancestors did. Hate was the chance to make your own way, become a land owner.

Wow she got that Karen haircut 🤣🤣

She's not a WASP. You can tell how she talks. Middle class at best.

Thank you! And watching this for the first time in 2021, I'm struck by the related material on the sugar and rum trade in the expanded 1619 book. Thank you for sharing the letter and these feelings.

Imagine saying Jewish people have too much power

Get over it.

Who sold them? What race and religion? Muslim Africans by any chance? Yup! Who ended slavery? That’s right WASP!

What if Im WASP, irish, welsh, scottish, german, cherokee? Do i pay myself reparations? Because I will. You can't stop me.

She sounds very arrogant.

She's upset over a deceased relative from hundreds of years ago who was a product of his time.

Wow this was really powerful!