I’m proud of my Scandinavian heritage, my Celtic heritage, and my Saxon heritage. I celebrate those things. I think about the ancestors who brought me here. But being proud of the only shared perceivable physical trait that’s common between those cultures, white skin, is fucking ludicrous. 

I have no need for whiteness. 

Plenty of folks who share my skin color aren’t considered “white” by the self-proclaimed gatekeepers of white identity. It’s meaningless except for use as a tool of bigotry and exclusion.