I am not only a white male, but to accurate, I lucked out. No one can control who their parents or birth conditions are. I am aware that the previous sentence sounds aloof, conceited, braggadocio, and maybe even insufferable to many. Probably not to our customers though, who are 99% of that variety, or their wives who may call for them, or on their own. If you have ever read “The Bell Curve,” you might enjoy it. I think I’ll begin this by quoting parts of a column written December 15,1999, by Michael Savage, who is probably one of the most popular radio talk show hosts.
“Trains, planes. cars rockets, tires, telephones, radios, television, electricity, atomic energy, computers, and fax machines. All miracles made possible by the minds and spirits of men with names like Ampere, Bell, Caselli, Edison, Ohm, Faraday, Einstein, Cohen, Teller, Shockley, Hertz, Macroni, Morse, Popov, Ford, Volta, Michelin, Dunlap, Watt, Diesel, Galllieo, and other ’dead, white males.’ How long are we going to pretend that origins play no role in our world, the origins of the inventions, science, technology and economics of the world in which we live? But saying this, is not enough, for these things didn’t just spring into existence by themselves. They have the same traceable origins throughout history, and it’s no mystery. Look at the list of names in your history books, and their national origins. The great majority of inventions, prosperity, and genius have been brought about by that most despicable of genders, the dreaded white male, or to be specific, individual white males. This is not to discredit the many contributions coming from non-whites, but fact is fact. Our most important and consequential inventions have come almost exclusively from white males. Curse me, or all white males if you wish, but if you call me a liar, you’ll have to come up with the proof that I am wrong. Of course I know about Chinese and gunpowder, but they didn’t take it much beyond firecrackers and pyrotechnics, and I know about the pyramids and other marvels too, which we can’t prove who did them or when.”
Let me further elaborate about which races and origins have contributed the most to civilization. It has seemed to me, since I was old enough to think and observe, that the further way from the equator a race is, the more inventive they are. Is it because they have to fight extreme weather? Maybe, but then the Eskimos have a frosty existence, and they have never done much other than catch and eat whales, it seems. The American Indians live and lived in our country, but they never even had a written language, nor invented anything, as far as I can see. Indian history buffs, love to collect Indian pot shards and weavings, but remember, while American Indians were wearing out land and moving to another place, the white men taught them agriculture. The American Indians thought it a crime for white men to take their children and put them in schools, and it was cruel I am sure, but they turned out to be English speaking, and educated, so was it good or bad? The Mexican foods and primitive architecture, are delightful, but simplistic. While the American Indians were struggling to exist, white men were building cathedrals with huge pipe organs and stained glass windows, castles, boats, and exploring the world. The American Indian had no glass, not did they invent anything.
I don’t have any German blood in me, but the Germans are by far the best of engineers. German composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, etc, are unsurpassed. Have there ever been more inventive white males than Carnegie, Rockefeller, Edison, Ford, Tesla, Kellogg, DuPont, Colt, Remington, Singer, Deere, McCormick, Otis, Wright, Chrysler, and Goodrich? These were among the thousands of white males who invented. There is a big difference between inventing and being educated about what has been invented. Doctors, and many professionals, perform well with inventions. People of all races can be educated and taught to operate and develop what has been invented, but the genius that invents, has probably 98% been the white male of all nationalities. The Chinese and Japanese are wonderful copiers, and love to make what we have already invented with their cheap labor, and pay no royalties. India Indians excel in being educated, and many come to America, but inventing things? No. The Brits colonized India and civilized it with democracy, railroads, and utilities. They were voted out 68 years ago, and India has decelerated ever since. Has there ever been a Muslim who has been responsible for inventing anything? While a few blacks have done wonderful things, the number of black inventors, developers, or geniuses, has been microscopic. I am certain that blacks are well aware of their non-performance in America, so they have invented a few of the following, which to me, is indicative of their self knowledge of lack of inventiveness. Try these on for size:
United Negro College Fund, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, BET, NAACP, Black Pride Day, Miss Black American, and 60 black colleges in America. If the prefix “White” were tacked onto any of the previous, we’d be called racists. 50% of the crime in America, is committed by black males between the ages of 15 and 35. This is probably about 5% of the population. One in three black males will go to prison in their lifetime, and of course, there have been hundreds of laws to force integration, and ’equality’ between the races, none of which have worked. Brown vs. Board, 60 years ago, tried to integrate schools. This resulted in hundreds of thousands of busses, force shuttling whites to black schools, and blacks to white schools, at a cost of billions of taxpayer dollars. It didn’t work, and schools and neighborhoods are segregated today, because as the old saying goes, “Birds of a feather, flock together.” Blacks don’t want to mix with whites and the reverse is obviously true. When blacks were allowed to ’buy’ homes in white neighborhoods with little or no ability to repay loans or even legitimately qualify for them, neighborhoods almost instantly became slums, ruining the big cities.
For those who say I am lucky being a white male and proud of it, I say, so be it. It’s not my fault that I am what I am. I had nothing to do with my birth or the achievements and inventions of white males throughout the centuries. James Watt invented the steam engine in the 1700’s, and Luther Burbank…well this could go on and on, so I won’t bore you with this or anger you. It is Memorial Day as I finish and post this, and I salute America’s dead soldiers who gave their lives, and especially those WW II Vets, who are dying by the hundreds every week. That was the last war we won, and the last war that was officially a ’war,’ because it was Constitutionally declared by the Congress. The Korean, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars had nothing to do with ’fighting to protect our land,’ but rather to fulfill politicians’ and Presidents’ egos. I salute all of them, but am tired of people saying that someone died in other than WW II, ’to protect our freedoms.’ Damn 95% of politicians and George Bush, who got us into the latest two. I am ashamed that he calls himself Republican with his TARP and other disasters. Fly your flags people, and give thanks that we are America, and proud that selfless, brave troops of all races, gave their lives, even though they never could understand why they were there, and far too many, sent there to die..