Congressional Black Caucus: Judging by color of skin not content of character

Those scientists were not contemporaries, or in the same field.

Further, the ability to grow peanuts and restore the quality of soil in the south was of huge importance when you realize the number cotton had done on the soil. Though, to be fair, simply resting the soil as was Biblically mandated would have been enough.

There was a plenty level playing field. There are whole continents full of countries where any of those advancements could have happened first and didn't. Whites could have invented gunpowder. Didn't. The Japanese could have invented the Tanegashima. Didn't. A white guy could have invented peanut butter. Didn't. The playing field was plenty level enough.

Yes, there were disparities: But then we come to the question of how it was that one group was so far advanced over other groups that it was able to institute those disparities in the first place.

QFT!

So goddamned tired of hearing that bullshit excuse. I am not in a position of privilege. Perpetuating that bit of ignorant fucking generalization is pretty damned racist itself.

And we've been suffering ever since.

The issue is not that we don't have a "white history month." The issue is that we CAN'T have a "white history month."

Personally, I think instead of Black History Month or Hispanic History Month or Asian History Month or whatever, we should pick a week and have "Celebrate Diversity Week" and invite everyone to highlight their particular heritage. Like a nation-wide street fair. Then the rest of the year we go back to "You're all fuckin' AMERICANS, so shut up and act like it."

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland and lived in Canada.

This!

We might be Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, Southern, Northern, whatever, but we are all Americans.

We all should celebrate and learn our culture, whatever it may be, and allow others to do the same.

I'm all for celebrating Black History. (Even though I'm a racist. Demi and Zombie said so.) It's the right thing to do. As a Southerner, I'm all for celebrating my culture and heritage. What I object to is when the NAACP and Liberal/Progressives/Marxists use legal means to prevent me from doing so.

Think that doesn't happen? Just recently, Lexington, VA's city council recently voted to stop Confederate flags from being flown from the city's lamp posts one day out of the year for the Lee-Jackson Day parade. That movement was initiated by Prof. Anna Brodsky, a Russian language professor at Washington and Lee University. I don't know where she's from, but from the sound of her accent, I seriously doubt that she was born in the US. This is but one thing that speaks volumes about the Socialist and Marxist indoctrination that is taking place in our colleges and universities these days. It was Robert E. Lee that made that university what it is today, and the graves of Lee and Jackson that put Lexington on the map as a tourist attraction.

Anyone who thinks the Southern heritage movement is anti-American doesn't have a clue what they're talking about. If you'll recall, I got pretty P-O'ed at Anc for calling the US flag "just a damned piece of cloth". Diss the US flag and we'll be the first in line raising hell at you.

I'm in the process of becoming a Clansman. That's with a "C", not a "K". I'm submitting my application to join my Scottish Clan. How long will it be until Scottish festivals are no longer allowed? It starts with Southern heritage, but once it takes root, where does it end?

We are a nation built from diversity, and based on freedom of speech and tolerance. Those principles are being slowly eroded.

Thats hard "C" sounds like a "K" so let's not be niggardly with our condemnation...

I always wonder about this world you guys live in where white guys are an endangered species. I do not live in this world. I go to work every day and I see white guys still running shit.
As a Black woman who now runs shit, has a big office, my own secretary, signs off on things etc.. I'm still the exception and not the rule. Most Black women are not doing these things. In fact, most of the time you guys accuse them of living on the government dole. SO, if white dudes ARE an endangered species who are losing all their power and such who exactly is gaining?

(For the record: on a more macro level, I think America is losing to China and India and we're all screwed therefore this infighting is self destructive)

Who said that?

Sigh, UA, are you incapable of understanding anything that is not explicitly, concretely, and literally explained to you?

I suppose opinions might vary on that one, but if nobody actually said "we're an endangered species," what you're doing there is distorting somethign into a cute little strawman that allowed you pull out a few canned racial disparity memes.

Me saying I don't live a life of privilege afforded me on my being a pasty white male does not state or imply any claim that I'm an endangered species.

Someone else saying it's easier to discriminate against a white kid does not state or imply any claim that I'm an endangered species.

Others criticizing the selection of any single race for a "history month" does not state or imply any claim that I'm an endangered species.

You choosing to perceive any of the above as some kind of bitter complaining about the extinction of whites or some such bullshit says more about you and your preconceptions than it does anyone else.

OK, will someone answer the question though?
So White men aren't living a life of privilege, they are being discrimated against, and they don't have a month.
I will simply accept all of that as your truth.
My question is who are the people that are now holding this position of priviledge in society?

Some random wordforger says "It's more acceptible to discriminate against a white kid than a minority kid."

Vandy translation "White men are being discriminated against!!!11 "

That's not subtle inference. That's blatant fucking distortion to serve your bias. Cut that shit out.

Do I have to claim that someone else holds a position of privilege to observe the fact that I'm not? No, I don't believe I do.

But the answer to your question is people who benefit from a combination of good luck, hard work, and nepotism that crosses all racial divides.

Announcer: Okay, so White Folks, you're up first. And here to represent them is Bob from Boise:

Bob: Thank you, thank you. I'd just like to call attention to some historical achievements made by people of the white race:

White people invented chemistry, calculus, physics, the free market economy, the lightning rod, modern agriculture, the steam engine, radio, the automobile, motion pictures, the airplane, nuclear power, television, computers, lasers, the microchip, rockets, the Internet, and cellphones.

White people circumnavigated the globe, crafted the art of the Renaissance, wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, discovered the age of the Earth and the size of the Cosmos, eradicated smallpox and polio, broke the sound barrier, decoded the human genome, and walked on the moon. Indeed, through the Greek Herodotus white people can even lay claim to inventing the idea of history.

Thank you.

Announcer: Thanks, Bob. Now over to the blacks and Hispanics. Guys?

*crickets chirping*

The content for all the media devices, without which, it would have been a bunch of Bible shit, and clog dancing.

And Arabs invented algebra, without which, calculus would be up shit creek.

Err, sunshine? There WAS a men's suffrage movement throughout most of the 1800s.

I know in my world (military contractor) I see a shitload of blacks running shit. Blacks in the highest positions you can feasibly be in.

Matter of fact on the wall in my hallway is the "Chain of Responsibility" with all the Sergeants Major (highest enlisted rank, huge responsibility and power) related to the soldiers I work with.

There are seven pictures totalled - six are black. This is very typical, not at all unusual. I think the playing field has been leveled to laser-like precision at this point.

Yer walkin' dangerously close to MitRR there, bwah! (See, he's white, so I can call him Bwah. )

Give them time.

"Them?"

There's only one...

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Careful, Tamar, or you'll be called a racist like me.

Hey, Dr. Phil says to give yourself what you're not getting.

Aw, poor Dickynoo. Would you like a jar of vagina spiders?

Aw, shucks.

It's OK. The vagina spiders are just CGI.

George Lucas created them.

And then recreated them in a Special Edition boxed set.

Again and again.