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Are White Men Gods? (II): Getting the Facts Straight
Posted on June 25, 2015 by Fred Reed
I find Cornel West, a black professor, complaining of White Supremacy, which he believes our black President needs to remedy. Obama, he says, is “niggerized.”
“A *iggerized black person is a black person who is afraid and scared and intimidated when it comes to putting a spotlight on white supremacy and fighting against white supremacy,” West said.
I would like to explain to Professor West a few things about this dread supremacy:
We have White Supremacy, Professor, because for 2500 years we, whites, have produced the best minds on the planet, the greatest flourishing of the arts and sciences ever seen, the most complex and organized societies. We have White Supremacy, whatever exactly it may be, because we have been the earth’s most successful race. No other has come close. Deal with it.
We put probes on Mars and invented the thousands of technologies needed to do it. We developed the symphony orchestra, the highest form of musical expression. We invented the airplane, the computer, the internet, and tennis shoes. Putting it compactly, we invented the modern world. A degree of privilege, however you may conceive it, goes with the territory.
Space Shuttle
A product of white engineers. When you can do this, come back and talk to me.
Blacks may not have the background to grasp the extent of our achievements. Still, permit me a brief and very incomplete list of things white people have done or invented:
Euclidean geometry. Parabolic geometry. Hyperbolic geometry. Projective geometry. Differential geometry. Calculus: Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration. Physical chemistry. Organic chemistry. Biochemistry. Classical mechanics. The indeterminacy principle. The wave equation. The Parthenon. The Anabasis. Air conditioning. Number theory. Romanesque architecture. Gothic architecture. Information theory. Entropy. Enthalpy. Every symphony ever written. Pierre Auguste Renoir. The twelve-tone scale. The mathematics behind it, twelfth root of two and all that. S-p hybrid bonding orbitals. The Bohr-Sommerfeld atom. The purine-pyrimidine structure of the DNA ladder. Single-sideband radio. All other radio. Dentistry. The internal-combustion engine. Turbojets. Turbofans. Doppler beam-sharpening. Penicillin. Airplanes. Surgery. The mammogram. The Pill. The condom. Polio vaccine. The integrated circuit. The computer. Football. Computational fluid dynamics. Tensors. The Constitution. Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Homer, Hesiod. Glass. Rubber. Nylon. Roads. Buildings. Elvis. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. (OK, that’s nerve gas, and maybe we didn’t really need it.) Silicone. The automobile. Really weird stuff, like clathrates, Buckyballs, and rotaxanes. The Bible. Bug spray. Diffie-Hellman, public-key cryptography, and RSA. Et cetera.
Computers
Computers, invented by us. We are not the only ones who can design these monsters. The Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, and Indians can do it, and they have my respect. But–Babbage, Turing, Shockley, Shannon, Boole, von Neumann–we invented computers. People who count on their fingers should maintain a discreet silence.
As a race, Cornel, we are happy for you, for anyone, to enjoy the benefits of our civilization, but that is exactly what it is—our civilization. It has become a global civilization because others among the competent—again, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Koreans—have found it to be in technical matters superior. It came from us. They, I note, do not complain of White Supremacy or White Privilege. They are too busy making computers and money.
Now, Cornel, I have often heard blacks demanding reparations for slavery. All right. I agree. It is only fair. I will pay a half-million dollars to each of my slaves, and free them immediately. I am not sure how many I have, but will try to give you an estimate in even dozens. Further, I believe that all blacks are entitled to a similar amount for every year in which they were slaves.
However, I think you owe us royalties for the use of our civilization, which can be regarded as a sort of software. There should be a licensing fee. After all, every time you use a computer, or a door knob, you are using something invented by us. Every time you sharpen a pencil, or use one, or read or write, you infringe our copyright, so to speak. We have spent millennia coming up with things–literacy, soap, counting–and it is only fair that we receive recompense.
The accounting burden would be excessive if we tried to distribute royalties in too fine a granularity, such as three cents per use of a boom box or a Glock, so we should probably use a bundled approach–so much per year for use of the wheel, refrigerator, and television. The amount could be deducted first from reparations payments and then automatically from EFT cards.
Now, Cornel, it isn’t that we whites want to be supreme. It is just that we haven’t been able to help it. It isn’t our fault that we produced Newton, Archimedes, Einstein, and all those mutants. They are just birth effects, things that happen to even the best families. You have to play the hand you are dealt. A little sympathy would be appropriate.
What I think, Cornel, is that if you want the advantages of success, you have to succeed. We have. It is chic to say that whites are now headed for the dust bin of history. Maybe. If so, historians of the future will say, “Damn! That was some really fine dust, wasn’t it?”
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A point made by Thomas Sowell in one of his books.
see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections
for a big list and explanations of dozens of various map projections
Africa has 10 major rivers including the Nile which stretches for over 6,000 km and it’s drainage basin covers 11 countries. There are rivers aplenty in Africa.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1237679/longest-rivers-in-africa/
Seriously, if someone’s not happy with the globe we presently use...give’em a basketball and some magic markers...and let them draw their own. Be a little cumbersome to use as a GPS while driving around, but apparently, they don’t mind being lost.
South America (6.9 million square miles) is 8X times larger than Greenland (836,000 square miles).
On a Mercator Projection, they look almost equal.
Al Sharpton
Astrology but not Astronomy. Too funny.
Thanks. I was trying to remember who it was. I like Sowell but I think this is a weak argument.
The primary advantage of a Mercator map is that you can accurately draw a straight directional line between any two points on planet Earth.
The distance will be distorted the further you move away from the equator, but the direction is perfect.
The true size of Africa is shocking only for those who have never seen an Earth globe before.
However, those who have never seen an Earth globe probably find a lot of things shocking.
As a rational and objective thinker, I agree with the author.
Jared Diamond makes pretty much the same argument in his book “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” except he also include disease.
I think he was comparing Europe and Africa by stating that once off the coastline of Africa there were few fully navigable rivers to the sea. In Europe he said something along the lines of 3/4ths of the continent was within 50 miles of a navigable river. He was maintaining as I recall that race, colonialism, prejudice and the like were not the reasons for the lack of development in Africa, but instead plain geography.
As Jolla points out, the comparison is between a continent and individual countries. We are not supposed to notice this, as we shiver in fear over being thought racist because we don’t instantly snap to attention over the word “Africa” and realize that we are worthless racist scum for not placing Africa at the top of the list of civilized continents and deprecating our own country as hoplessly racist.
Flat-Earthers don’t have this problem.
Really? Shocked? How stupid are people…
Never seen a globe?!?
Morons
I suppose that I’m biased by a proper education which, at its core, was an accurate globe.
I never noticed the size distortion on Mercator-type map but, given my education and lack of interest in Africa, also never cared.
It’s an interesting factoid, but FAR from ‘shocking’.
SHOCKING is what Disney and the left is promoting for children and their schools.
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