Time to get off the high horse

In 2007, my very own congressman, David Wu, made the statement that there were Klingons in the White House. Funny as that Star Trek reference was I think he got it wrong. Most of the representative administration is white, and if white people as a whole are anything in the Star Trek Universe they are the Ferengi. The capitalistic, technology stealing, Ferengi.

We as white people love to blow our own horn as to all of the great things we have accomplished. Well, let's set the record straight. We haven't accomplished all that much to be proud of. We invented the car and steam power, but those were really just advances on existing technology. The light bulb? Yeah, Thomas Edison invented it, but he would have been hard pressed to make it work without the filament made by Lewis Howard Latimer, a black man.

In fact Black people are responsible for almost all of the civilization changing inventions. Fire (or discovering how to use it), the wheel, writing, math, philosophy (I know I thought it was the Greeks too. Turns out I was wrong.), using stone to build. The list goes on. Then when all of Europe went into the Dark Ages, and went a little bat shit crazy with the whole religious thing, it was the Middle East that kept all of the knowledge of the world from disappearing. That's right those crazy terrorist we are all so afraid of kept the light of knowledge burning while all of us White folk were burning each other at the stake in the name of God.

Again, as a White person, I am not trying to spread white guilt, or make anyone feel bad. My mission is to knock all of us White people off of the high horse we ride around on as if we deserved to be their by perdition. It's OK to be White, I'm proud of being White. What it's not OK to be is vain due to ignorance. Instead realize that our history that we have learned is mostly a lie based on the need for White people to maintain a sense of superiority and control. Later.