XPost: alt.non.racism, rec.arts.tv, soc.culture.african.american   
   From: no_offline_contact@example.com   
      
   On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:06:30 +0000   
   BTR1701  wrote:   
      
   > On Feb 21, 2024 at 4:00:23 PM PST, "anim8rfsk"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > > BTR1701  wrote:   
   > >>  On Feb 21, 2024 at 9:38:53 AM PST, "Ubiquitous"   
   > >>  wrote:   
   > >>>  An MSNBC guest claimed on Monday that white people had stolen   
   > >>> every form of music in existence-- with the exception of   
   > >>> classical music-- from black people.   
   > >>   
   > >>  Sure. Because all the European peoples never had music before   
   > >> they met black   
   > > people. Riiigghht.   
   > >>   
   > >>  This is just more of the recent trend on social media where   
   > >> blacks are   
   > > claiming every cultural and scientific achievement in history were   
   > > really done   
   > > by black people.   
   > >>   
   > >>  The works of Shakespeare? Ghost-written by a black woman.   
   > >>   
   > >>  Newton's Laws of Motion? Stolen by Newton from the work of a   
   > >> black guy.   
   > >   
   > > Newton was a black guy. Remember your Doctor Who?   
   > >   
   > >>  All music everywhere? Invented by blacks.   
   > >>   
   > >>  Electricity? Actually discovered by blacks.   
   > >>   
   > >>  Einstein? White guy taking credit for black math.   
   > >   
   > > All spaceflight equations at NASA were done by black women in the   
   > > basement.   
   >   
   > And a black man was the first to walk on the moon. (Not kidding. They   
   > actually seriously say this.   
   >   
   Who was this black man? When did it happen?   
      
   I'm guessing he was the senior astronaut from the Wakenda Space Program   
   and it happened in 1000 BC.   
      
   > Listen to this one claim blacks invented everything-- the car, the   
   > computer, toilets-- there's nothing they didn't invent.   
   >   
   > https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1760224013375111449?s=20   
   >   
   >   
   The first of the two clips is pure wishful thinking: she wants blacks   
   to have invented all those things so she simply insists they did   
   without an iota of proof. She does even name these black geniuses or   
   give any details of when and under what circumstances these inventions   
   were made.   
      
   There is actually some truth to the second guy's points: African   
   minerals and materials were probably important in building some   
   things in the world. But the various African *people* can't claim   
   credit for that. They didn't create the gold or diamonds or coltan or   
   whatever. I don't think they even FOUND most of it, let alone set up   
   the businesses that extracted them. I don't doubt that all or most of   
   the grunt labour was done by blacks, sometimes as employees and   
   sometimes as de facto slaves but there's not a lot of creativity in   
   digging.   
      
      
      
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