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If you're white, you're right : Comments
By Stephen Hagan, published 25/5/2006Not a lot has changed over the last one hundred years: racism still persists in Australian society.
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Posted by mickijo, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 2:55:52 PM
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Mickijo claims that whites are "entirely responsible for medical research, the discovery of electricity,communications, transport on sea, air and land... humanitarian help. Not to mention all the everyday things we take for granted that have had their beginnings in a white imagination. Without the input from all those... whiteys, the rest of the 75% of the world would still be grubbing for two sticks to rub together."
Perhaps Mickijo is scientifically colour blind. While early white society was "rubbing two sticks together", the Chinese were researching herbal medicines and acupuncture - techniques still used today. We owe the Chinese for papermaking (about 2nd Century BC), printmaking, and the magnetic compass. Gunpowder is a Chinese invention that we might wish they'd not given to the world. The Chinese invented the chain pump in the first century AD. It’s still used in irrigation and civil engineering. They produced the first planetarium, and in 132 A.D the earliest known seismoscope for earthquake detection. By the 4th century they used blast furnaces to obtain cast iron from iron ore. This was 1200 years before the first blast furnace in Europe. The Chinese had developed a process of refining iron into steel in the second century BC long before Bessemer. The suspension bridge, invented by the Chinese in the first century AD, is still the bridge of choice when you need to span a great distance. Read Robert Temple's "The Genius of China: 3000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention" Away from China, petroleum was used thousands of years ago by Kemetians (in Africa) in bitumen and combustibles. Petroleum was found in Egyptian mummies. The extraction and production of oil required sophisticated knowledge of geology, mathematics and chemistry...and we're talking 3000-4000 BC. If you think whites are exclusively responsible for modern technology and science, look at http://inventors.about.com/od/blackinventors/ where you will learn something about e.g. Black American Otis Boykin (1920–1982) who invented electronic control devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, and the pacemaker; or Dr. Patricia Bath (1949–) who invented a method of eye surgery that has enabled many blind people to regain vision. Posted by FrankGol, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 6:00:30 PM
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BOAZ_David
How can one expect to see one's influence or religion grow if their is so much negativity surrounding it? besides the fact that missionaries were first given that name because of the sexual position that they took on the fellow natives-if god is love,which he is, what would make a nonbeliever want to become one if these "people of love" are killing off his family? and the sad thing is this is fact. the funny thing is the concept of christianity was taken from several "pagan" religions in northern afrika and brought back to them as some kind of manafactured product.ok. If your dad is part of a religion and you see him beat your mom up and rape her and eventually kill her would you want to be a part of that religion? Posted by THA_KONFEDERATION, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 7:06:05 PM
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THA_KONFEDERATION,
I feel extremely sorry for you and what happened to your mother. Obviously your father wasn't practising the teachings and attitudes of Christ Jesus. Posted by Philo, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 7:29:42 PM
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BANJO...
"Your standards of journalism would not suit any mag I wish to read and any Christen faith, that I know of, would be ashamed to have you in their congregation" its funny dat u say dat cuz a christian faith should not b ashamed of anyone-unless they have no sin themselves. u mind as well b the person who was gonna cast the first stone at the adulterer....but thats exactly wats wrong with christianity today. to many ego's n the way.... and mickijo.....hehe. ur funny. w/out white people we wouldnt have as much good point. but then Native Americans would still control North America and wouldnt have 2 worry about a people who would come and spread disease like a virus and in afrika their would still b kings and queens who sat on their thrones of gold and diamonds and also im sure the genetically annihilated tazmanians(by the great white man!) would still like to b on this earth... but only w/out white people. do you know why caucasians(keyword search:Caucasus Mountains) have long tailbones, super arches in their feet, longer torsos and shorter legs than colored(not just black) people? while afrikans were studying the stars in egypt and Native Americans were making the perfect calendar, guess who were n caves carving on the walls beating each other over the heads? Caucas-ians;Caucas-us... come on. colored people(not jus blacks)catch Europeans up on technology and it backfires....Pilgrims were taught corn and how to farm-Native Americans were given death. Moors(northern afrika) gave spaniards gunpowder-Moors were given death. Honestly wat lighter colored people dont always feel the need 2 conquer darker peoples? damn 4real? and racism is the thought that ones race is superior to another. formula is power+ prejudice=racism. Europeans make up 10% of world population yet own around 90% of the world's power economically speaking. colored people can be prejudice by saying a derogative term like cracker or honky but not racist. Since when have colored(not just blacks) people thought of themselves as the superior race? during the jim crow laws? or how about when we were 3/5's a man? Posted by THA_KONFEDERATION, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 7:38:02 PM
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THA_Konfederation
May I ask if you are an Aboriginal person ? I appreciate your presence here, and your input. It would be nice to know your actual background. You refer to colored people as 'we'... so please fill in the blanks. As for you dad doing what I assume you meant to your mum. Please think about this. If he was a member of a religion or a circus, it makes no difference to the fact that he committed this act by his own choice. It certainly was not Gods fault. If we have clear teaching "Don't do this or that" and we go against that teaching, its not the fault of the teacher is it ? Its up to you to see the better way to live and avoid such attitudes or thoughts which produced this act. As for your White people 10% controlling 90% of world resources, you may be right or wrong, I don't know, but the color of the skin could easily have been Yellow or black.. its just coincidence that its white in this case. Watch China and India ..they have the people and are gaining power.. and things might turn around..but it makes no difference, the issue is 'people' not skin color. As u can see in East Timur at the moment.. its dark skinned from Western East Timor fighting against rival ethnic groups from the Eastern area..etc.. same color. If you are aboriginal, please learn from the tremendous example of people like Noel Pearson, the many footballers, Hayden Wridgway etc... all who show its quite possible for Aboriginal people to do well in a white managed country. There is no reason why Aboriginal people cannot reach the highest positions, as long as they have 'Australia' the nation at heart. Posted by BOAZ_David, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 7:39:51 AM
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Get real.