My take on PB's question about white pride is this:
1) White pride tends to be associated with white supremacists. It was in the past and still is today.
2) The Irish and Italian and their parades and festivities, as well as for other groups, are almost always for national and/or ethnic pride as opposed to a racial one. However, for almost all of these nationalities and ethnicities they are white subgroups. Black Americans who are the descendents of slaves don't have those national ancestries. For the most part their ancestors came from what are now Nigeria, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Cameroon and Ghana, but very few know from where. They had their national identity taken from them and cannot celebrate in a Nigerian-American parade (if there are any) or the parade or festival for any other nation. So their identity is in a general African ancestry or identification by color of their skin.
3) White Americans as a whole did not experience the historic victimization that black Americans did. While there were some Irish slaves, for the most part they had indentures of seven years; black indentured servants became permanent indentured servants only because of the color of their skin. Most American slavery was color-based and was legally enforced until 1865. After that came Jim Crow laws that were dominant in the South, but discriminatory laws existed in other places like California too. The last Jim Crow laws were not done away with until the early 1970s. There were also anti-black race riots and lynchings that resulted in several thousand deaths, and time and time again the government failed to enact anti-lynching legislation (look at photos of lynching that are on the internet -- white parents took their children to watch people (even women and children) hanged and/or burned alive, some even had picnics while callously watching the lynchings. Then there were the slights, the rudeness, such as a full grown man being called "boy" or being unable to get a certain job because of skin color.
4) I'd say that assimilation will increase as older generations pass away and when the agitators stop agitating. But the history will always be there. Even today many white people think everything magically got better for black people when slavery ended, but they completely forget about Jim Crow and lynching.
