And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I'm not sure that is right... The definition of "white" keeps changing... There was a time when Italians, Irish and Jews were not considered white.
In your current definition of whites do you include jews? It is a relevant question because one of the engineers that designed the bridge (Joseph Strauss) was jewish... Also as I'm sure you are aware California was part of the Spanish empire/modern Mexico before it became part of the US. Do you count latinos as white or are you just assuming that there were NO latinos working on the bridge?
What about middle eastern people... Are those white as well? The thing is that the earliest evidence of bridge building comes from Babylonia... That means that the whole concept of a bridge is a Babylonian invention. As you may or may not be aware Babylonia was where modern Iraq is. So do we credit the middle easterners with the invention or do we just count them as white also?
As you can see the whole notion of whiteness and white achievements becomes very tricky as soon as you just scratching the surface.
On a side note... I would kill to be a fly on the wall the day that you receive a genetic analysis of your own ancestry I would LOVE to see your face when you learn that chances are that you are not as white as you think you are!
I would ask you to denounce your racist views but I also know that it would be like asking a dinosaur to be smart... It is just beyond your capabilities. The good news is that people like you are slowly dying and later generations have learned from your generation's mistakes. Every day there are fewer and fewer people that think like you and more and more people that have understood that the best path forward is through embracing and understanding the value of diversity
Queen Mary, yes?
ReplyDeleteMerica!!!!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if this country could build another Golden Gate Bridge or Hoover Dam. Certainly not with DEI.
ReplyDeleteWHITE men!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that is right...
DeleteThe definition of "white" keeps changing... There was a time when Italians, Irish and Jews were not considered white.
In your current definition of whites do you include jews? It is a relevant question because one of the engineers that designed the bridge (Joseph Strauss) was jewish...
Also as I'm sure you are aware California was part of the Spanish empire/modern Mexico before it became part of the US. Do you count latinos as white or are you just assuming that there were NO latinos working on the bridge?
What about middle eastern people... Are those white as well? The thing is that the earliest evidence of bridge building comes from Babylonia... That means that the whole concept of a bridge is a Babylonian invention. As you may or may not be aware Babylonia was where modern Iraq is. So do we credit the middle easterners with the invention or do we just count them as white also?
As you can see the whole notion of whiteness and white achievements becomes very tricky as soon as you just scratching the surface.
On a side note... I would kill to be a fly on the wall the day that you receive a genetic analysis of your own ancestry I would LOVE to see your face when you learn that chances are that you are not as white as you think you are!
I would ask you to denounce your racist views but I also know that it would be like asking a dinosaur to be smart... It is just beyond your capabilities. The good news is that people like you are slowly dying and later generations have learned from your generation's mistakes. Every day there are fewer and fewer people that think like you and more and more people that have understood that the best path forward is through embracing and understanding the value of diversity
Yep.... I was an iron worker in my younger days... almost exclusively white dudes...
ReplyDeleteDon't remember a single non white guy in the iron
then you aint from NY.
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