Personally, I think racial pride of any kind is dumb, but I don't think people should be demonized just for having pride in their ethnicity.
Ehhh here's the thing and I think it's not really talked about but..
for hundreds of years it was not considered a good thing to be black or brown or asian. O gray or a women or anon-christian.
And these "pride" things are really about undoing all that damage.
No you are not stupid because you're black.
You're not lazy for being latino.
No, being gay does not make you a pervert.
Ect ect.
White people really have not had that. White was and to a large part still is the "norm". It's good to be white. Your life is so much easier if you're white and male and hetero.
I really didn't' appreciate that until I came out as gay. I have faced discrimination. I have had to deal with bigots. But I can count the problems I have had because I am a white guy who acts straight on one hand… and still have fingers left over.
AND I as a white guy I would hazard to say that most white people don't' think of themselves as "white" EXCEPT in relation to people who are not white.
I mean we have lots of people going on about how proud they are begin Irish and Italian and German. Those guys are generally pretty caucasian. But that's just how most white people seem to view their own ethnicity
Now I guess we can also say the same for latinos and Asians. Puerto Ricans don' like being called Mexican; a lot of latinos in florida get really annoyed at being assumed to be Cuban; Koreans really do not appreciate being labeled "chinese" or worse Japanese.
But in that case we still have that whole "it's bad to be latino or asian" thing that used to be acceptable in this country.