Which Destroy Genuine Pride in an Individual. All such claims promote the same false view of the nature of pride. It is the person of accomplishment who experiences genuine pride.
Pride is a result of working hard and reaching positive goals.
For it to have any significance, it must represent a reward, an emotional payment for one's attainments. As such, pride belongs properly only to the individual achiever. It does not redound to others who merely happen to be members of the same ethnic group. It is true that many human beings who happen to be white have reached exalted goals. From Aristotle, who formulated the laws of logic, to Shakespeare, whose poetry is filled with the most beautiful language, to Newton, whose genius made possible many of the scientific advances of the modern world, there have been many white men proud of their glorious triumphs.