Disclaimer: This is half parody, half serious. It started out as parody but then I got in to it.
During White History Month we learn about famous European Americans! Because that is all White History is – learning sanitized accounts of Good White People that Black people approve of. They do not even have to be important in White History or placed in history at all. In fact, some of the best European Americans to learn about are those who can easily be understood apart from history – like sports heroes, explorers, inventors, artists, writers and musicians.
Suggested (sanitize as needed):
Thaddeus Stevens (1792–1868) – Congressman who pushed for emancipation, reparations and equal rights. Helped to get the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments passed, freeing slaves and providing for equal protection under the law.
Gerrit Smith (1797-1874) – abolitionist, who Frederick Douglass wanted for president in 1860 instead of Abe Lincoln. Smith provided money for John Brown’s uprising:
John Brown (1800-1859) raided Harpers Ferry to gain weapons for a slave uprising. A martyr to the North. Showed that slaves could only be freed by force. The Civil War started soon after.
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) – abolitionist, a White man’s Frederick Douglass.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) – author of “The Raven” and other horror stories. Often considered the first writer with a unique European American style.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) – abolitionist author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852). Her book turned public opinion of European Americans in the North against slavery.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) – author, wrote “Civil Disobedience” (1849), “Walden” (1854) and “A Plea for Captain John Brown” (1859).
Moorfield Storey (1845-1929) – first president of the NAACP.
Robert Peary (1856-1920) – with the help of Matthew Henson, he became the first European American to reach the North Pole.
Franz Boas (1858-1942), father of American anthropology, helped to overthrow scientific racism. Zora Neale Hurston was his student.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) – First Lady. Strong supporter of equal rights for Blacks. Broke with the Daughters of the American Revolution and arranged for Marian Anderson to sing at the Lincoln Memorial.
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) – first European American writer to win a Nobel Prize for literature. Wrote “Main Street” (1920), “Babbit” (1922) and “Kingsblood Royal” (1947).
Babe Ruth (1895-1948) – the White Josh Gibson. Held the home run record in Caucasian-league baseball.
Lillian Smith (1897-1966) – author of “Strange Fruit” (1944) and “Killers of the Dream” (1949). Strong anti-racist critic of the Jim Crow South.
George Gey (1899-1970) – discovered the first immortal human cells (HeLa), isolated from cancer patient Henrietta Lacks.
Nathaniel Wyeth (1911-1990) – inventor of the plastic Coke bottle, brother of painter Andrew Wyeth.
Howard Zinn (1922-2010) – historian, author of “A People’s History of the United States” (1980). Taught at Spelman.
Robert Kennedy (1925-1968) – brother of President John Kennedy. Shot dead in 1968 while running for president, leading a multiracial coalition.
Jim Zwerg (1939- ) – civil rights worker whose beating at the hands of the Klan made the Freedom Riders unstoppable.
Michael Schwerner (1939–1964) – civil rights worker murdered by the Klan during Mississippi Freedom Summer.
Joe Biden (1942- ) – vice president, the highest ranking European American in government.
Steve Jobs (1955-2011) – entrepreneur, made computers a mass-market consumer product.
Keith Haring (1958-1990) – street artist, famous for the mural “Crack is Wack” (1986).
Eminem (1972- ) – the best-selling rapper of all time (as of 2013), protege of Dr Dre.
See also:
@ Abagond,
“Because that is all White History is – learning sanitized accounts of Good White People that Black people approve of.”
Okay, I get your point. These are nice people to learn about but let’s learn about the people who have been scrubbed from our history texts. These people are boring and we already know all about them. Please , bring out the Nathan Bedford Forests of the world. See I even recommended a topic.
By the way – first in!
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Interesting eclectic list of historic Europeans, Abagond.
On another note, why do I have the feeling that biggiefriez is a previously banned (self or otherwise..) poster who has returned with a new name?
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Matari
Would not suprise me one bit.
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@Kiwi,
Yes, this touches your point of “Who is White in America?” I think Daniel Henney probably should be white as he has a white father, a mother adopted by a white family and 4 white grandparents.
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Caucasian-league baseball! I love it!
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O Lord, every month has been white history month since this country was established.
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Steve Jobs (1955-2011) – entrepreneur, made computers a mass-market consumer product.
Computers went through “generations”, from the old vacuum tube versions to the transistor and beyond. It is more accurate to think of Jobs as working to popularize a certain generation of computers. Computers as a whole probably had a lot of government subsidy in the beginning, and other forms of r&d money.
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@ Matari
I know what you mean. He seems like he has been here before under another name. He acts like he knows me, which is unlike a new commenter.
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@ Kiwi
As I understand it, Steve Jobs counts as White because he looks passably White, is assimilated, is not Muslim, and has an Anglo-sounding name. Likewise with Ralph Nader or Marlo Thomas but probably not Paula Abdul (who might be postworthy in that regard).
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@ biggiefriez
It is wonderful that you know so much. I do not.
Thank you for your suggestion. I will almost certainly do the Klan, but probably not your boy.
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You should add Dr. Marion Sims to the list… he’s the father of gynecology
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Steve Jobs is considered white?
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Steve Jobs was at least functionally White.
Antero Garcia, a teacher of Black and Latino students, read Isaacson’s biography about Jobs and had this to say:
Source:
http://dmlcentral.net/blog/antero-garcia/summer-reading-privilege-petulance-and-passion-steve-jobs
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@ S @ biggiefriez
In the post I said we need “Good White People that Black people approve of”. I doubt most Black people would approve of either Dr J. Marion Sims or Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Nathan Bedford Forests
Yes Nathan Bedford Forest, the purveyor of the Fort Pillow Massacre! Folks you cannot get a better suggestion. Kudos biggiefriez!
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@ Abagond,
Not a troll and not a former poster. I stumbled upon your blog by accident. I’m a history buff and was looking up something on the interwebs and one of the sites that discussed the topic was yours. When I arrived I found a myriad of blog posts on zillions of topics, well written and from a unique perspective. It actually took me a few blog posts of reading before I realized the central topic of your blog was the black American experience.
I found that many of your interests intersected mine. I also found your blog posts challenged some of my own ideas and/or made me want to respond. And as it appeared you encouraged discussion and maintained an open forum, thought to engage. And yes I’m argumentative, but as discussion of race is political, your topics are defacto political topics and that is exciting and inherently debatable. But I don’t flame, or put people down or, comment in order to anger other posters or you.
I jumped in thinking that posters came and went depending on the topic. Now I’ve learned that you have sort of a regular following and that many of them think they own your board and that it is a black board and that whites who come here should just shut up and listen or go away. But I’ve never seen you state anything of the sort, or even support that viewpoint through your response to commenters. So I figure your open to respectful discussion (unless you say otherwise), even if you don’t agree with the poster.
Now 2 things:
1. My first post on “Famous Whites to learn about for White History Month”, is honest. It’s not flip or sarcastic. I was genuinely shocked about the list of mostly decent well meaning white folk. I thought white history month was about white people or American events that were scrubbed from US textbooks. I thought perhaps, that your heart wasn’t in it after all and decided to put up this innocuous list instead and perhaps to make a point to your posters that white history month without the baddies is boring.
2. I may not have met you personally but certainly know more about you than most of the people I interact with everyday. Most of the details of your life, even very intimate details you have described through your blog. I think it was under “me” that you described yourself in terms of the basics, then in posts including but not limited to “rules of life I, II, III” you went into intimate details. And then through so many of your other posts, your personality and worldview come out. I believe for instance that your moral code is Bible based although it was once Marxist Materialist. I know for instance that you are a self-described racist, that you appear to mostly listen to pop or r&b music and that you spend a lot of time on the computer, etc.
I know that in person, treating some whom you’ve not met is disrespectful. I don’t generally maintain the same social decorum on internet blogs as I do in person. I don’t see the point. Unlike one of your posters who said they think of your blog as safe place, I don’t. My experience with the internet is that it is a far more vicious place than the physical world. I’ve never been so attacked and unmercifully set upon as i have on the internet. I assume anything I write on a website will be the subject of derision.
I will be more circumspect in my responses to your posts. I’ve worked my way through about half of them.
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@Abagond,
“In the post I said we need “Good White People that Black people approve of”. I doubt most Black people would approve of either Dr J. Marion Sims or Nathan Bedford Forrest”
I thought you were being sarcastic. I understand now. Thank you
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@biggiefriez
It is a community and, as with most internet communities I visit, it takes time to be accepted as a member of the community – or even as a genuine visitor in good faith. The nature of the discussions and the kind of people they attract means that it may take a bit longer here to prove you’re not just a drive-by muck-stirrer. I’ve been here a while and as a visitor I mostly get courteous treatment unless I say something stupid. A blunt response to one’s naivete can be enlightening. I have been… enlightened on occasion.
White people are not the primary audience. There is no reason we should be given a free ride.
If you are a racist then you will probably find yourself out of your depth here. It has all been seen and heard before.
If you are recovering or anti-racist then you may still find yourself out of your depth. This is not an easy place for a white person to earn trust. There is very well justified suspicion – trolls are rife. Rather rarer, but still present, are racists seeking to engage in serious debate for their own purposes.
One way or another, white people who come here generally get the treatment they earn. For those who find the going difficult, as I occasionally have, there is always the option of just reading the posts and comments instead of contributing. There’s still plenty to learn.
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I too thought you were being sarcastic
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“they think of your blog as safe place, I don’t.”—nor should anyone. I meet more loons online than I have ever encountered in my entire life.
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@Sharina:
LOL. Ain’t that the truth! 😀
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OK, so having read your disclaimer, Abagond, I am curious why, during March, which is Women’s History Month, you chose to put forward a list of 23 people, of whom only 3 are women?
Meanwhile, your list is completely ignoring extremely important figures such as Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth, among many others. What about Etta James or Aretha Franklin? Josephine Baker? Lupita Nyong’o? Marian Wright Edelman? Margaret Fuller? Dorothy Spruill Redford? I would certainly list any of those women long before putting Babe Ruth on the list…and I’m a baseball fan, for the record. Ruth was a womanizer with a terrible addiction problem. In terms of career record and integrity of character, Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, Mike Lowell, Jackie Robinson or Derek Jeter would all be better choices than Ruth. I mean, I get that this was part satire, but…
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your inclusion of Peary made me snicker just a bit.George Gey too I suppose.
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@ Melanie
Most of the people you list are not White. Read the title of the post. I put Babe Ruth on the list not to praise him but to skewer him. Read what I wrote about him.
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@ S
I don’t have sarcastic bone in my body.
J. Marion Sims is a terrible role model for Whites and therefore not suitable for White History Month. Besides, White commenters want me to remain “positive” and not “bitter” about White people. I doubt I could do that if I wrote about someone like him. I would be better off writing completely snark-free, positive posts about, say, Miley Cyrus.
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@Abagond: I get the skewering part, yes. The Babe Ruth bit was kind of a sidebar but I guess I was responding to the idea that most–certainly not all–of your list were people who helped the causes of abolition and civil rights, so his inclusion seemed out of place alongside John Brown and Henry Thoreau. I hope, too, that Eminem was part of the joke! That guy just makes me cringe with his misogyny and other violence.
My question was more toward the point of why not give some tibme to Women’s History month? I listed mostly black women, yes, because Women’s History education is so dominated by stories of white women, but we could easily compile a list of 100 influential women of color right here in a matter of minutes. So many of these women are routinely ignored or only a margin note in history texts (as I am sure you and most of us readers of your blog are well awarke), while others like Redford are virtually unknown, and unknown amongst whites in particular.
Redford is a hugely influential woman to me as an historian, with her rags-and-disinterested-in-her-heritage beginning who, in time, became fascinated with her heritage and worked her way up to being the coordinator of a gathering of over 2,000 of her fellow descendants of slaves from a North Carolina plantation which, until she eventually took over the Directorship of plantation-turned-museum property, did not even acknowledge the slavery aspect at all in its interpretation of the property’s history. Her persistent scholarship and insistence on telling the full story of the plantation set a precedent which has resonated throughout the country and created a sea change in historical interpretation and museum education.
Just a suggestion, but I’d love to see your readers nominate figures like Redford to compile a list for Women’s History Month.
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This is quite an eclectic list.
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Eminem….best selling rapper.
Its a good thing, best selling, doesn’t equal best rapper of all time. -_-
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Every day is White history month in this damn country. ”White history” is around us everyday.
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Plus MOST Rap music these days is garbage to me. I prefer older Rap music. To me:
1. Tupac
2. Nas
3. Rakim
4. DMX
5 Whoduni
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@ Adeen : That is a good list, Whoduni was fun.
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@ Adeen: DMX not so much, but other than that it’s a good list.
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Why not study noble whites like Columbus, Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Reagan, Bush, etc?
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Dr. Marion Sims, ‘Ye Gods and Little Fishes.”
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@abagond
How about a profile on Ted Nugent? I’d like to understand more about this draft-dodging , “Motor City Madman” who can’t seem to keep President Obama out of his mouth!
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@Bobby M,
Those are already covered in US history Classes. We want to learn and explore White American history that is not already covered over extensively in our general education.
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Bobby M,
Those people are already covered in our education system. Lemme rephrase that, The heroic, idolized portrayals of those guys are plastered not only in the education system, but in monuments and media. One blog doesn’t, and it’s racist, huh? LOL
Stick to counting your teeth, man. 🙂
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@ Bobby M
I did not include them because they are either terrible role models or highly problematic.
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This is an interesting train of thought. (Sorry, I realize that it is the original subject of the post and we just needed to get back on track).
What white European descendant historical or contemporary figures would make good role models for ALL Americans, including blacks and Asians? Lemme think about that one. It is likely that very few already covered in our standard social studies books would make the cut.
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Chuck D. Few others have the substance.
PE may be old geezers now but they still rock, still speak the truth and will never be bettered, IMO.
Eminem… just doesn’t work for me. He has clever moments but that’s damning with faint praise.
Most white rappers just seem like novelty acts. Many that I’ve seen I really would put in the minstrel camp – mock ebonics and all.
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Very eye-opening to have the tables turned this way. I really appreciated it– and enjoyed a healthy laugh at white culture, including myself.
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Who is Whoduni?
I know Whoodini (think thats how its spelt) they did Freaks come out (I think thats what its called)
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@ Omnipresent: You are correct.
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@Abagond: I have been looking up Manifest Destiny, in short it just sounds like white supremacy, It sounds like a sovereign God wanted the white man to reign supreme and have dominion over all non white people and their land. Especially Natives and Mexicans.
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You should do a post on Manifest Destiny.
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Manifest Destiny sounds like arrogance of white settlers thinking they should enlighten those that they felt were inferior, that they should expand and take this belief the Native Americans and the Mexicans and enlighten them. The white settlers were sure of their racial and cultural superiority. This is arrogance.
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kiwi — “Now wait just a darn minute. Why is Steve Jobs white but Obama is black?”
Steve Jobs’ father
Obama’s father
“It’s easier for whites to appropriate nonwhite cultures and make a quick buck off of them. For example, I’m sick of seeing white male martial arts “experts”.”
Asians wear western style clothes, play western sports and study western music & instruments. So I don’t think you have much basis to complain about “cultural appropriation.” My man Chuck won the Professional Middleweight Karate championship for six years in a row. He also trained in Korea and was awarded an 8th degree blackbelt in Taekwondo. So he’s definitely a martial arts expert. If they don’t have a problem with him I don’t know why you should.
As for eminem, he didn’t “culturally appropriate” anything. Rhyming insult competitions have been common throughout Europe since the 5th century. It’s even mentioned in The Iliad and Beowulf. It was formerly known as flyting.
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jefe — What white European descendant historical or contemporary figures would make good role models for ALL Americans, including blacks and Asians?
I think Helen Keller, Thomas Edison, Sergeant York and Warren Buffett would make just about anyone’s list.
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“How about a profile on Ted Nugent? I’d like to understand more about this draft-dodging”
Nugent wasn’t a draft dodger. He registered for the draft and showed up when his number was called.
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“As for eminem, he didn’t “culturally appropriate” anything. Rhyming insult competitions have been common throughout Europe since the 5th century. It’s even mentioned in The Iliad and Beowulf. It was formerly known as flyting.”
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So that’s what eminem’s been performing all this time: 5th century European “flyting” — as is mentioned in the Illiad and Beowulf even! And all this time I thought he was performing rap.
Awesome!
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@mary burrell
I hear nomination #4. 😛
Actually, Manifest Destiny IS normally covered in High School history books, but it is used as a rational and justifiable explanation for America’s domestic and foreign policy, including Native American removal and genocide, and racist containment policies for blacks and Asians and for protection of “American interests” abroad. The term used today, “American exceptionalism” comes from that. If I can use any term to describe American culture, I would use “Manifest Destiny”. We need to look at it at another angle other than through the White American lens.
What is missing in our textbooks is a history of WHY the
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[…] "…Good White People…" […]
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@ Kiwi
Re: the stefani pic
*total throw up*
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pay it forwrd “So that’s what eminem’s been performing all this time: 5th century European “flyting” — as is mentioned in the Illiad and Beowulf even! And all this time I thought he was performing rap.”
Pretty much. Rap is little more than 16th century flyting set to a beat — only with less skilled poets. But it still retains the swearing, vulgar sexual references and scatological insults all done with rhyme and alliteration. Obscene language was highly illegal and strictly enforced — the only exception being flyting matches where anything goes. Not unlike my man eminem. Selling the most doesn’t make him the best… but he is.
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kiwi — What do you have against Edison and York?
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Flyting? I was just having this conversation the other day. As i been said, i have been trying to find my voice, and that part of my life has been getting better. Its really hard to do. But this did come up, in the aforementioned convo; ie, eminem was freestyling ie so called battling black people, according to 8 mile, the movie, as a guidepost, and certainly not a 100% one as there is no way with my understanding of his position on gays i find it singularly unlikely the battle at his place of work at the metal stamping factory occured like that and also them working on the car? Please. anyway. But its a thin fuzzy line the closest thing in white people talk is busting chops etc but its hard in the hood, from my study of ebonics it seems the dozens is really cool and fun, being from new jersey helps too.. Btw but people can take things the wrong way and there are so many crosscultural things to be mindful of… It can into ‘having words’ so quickly… Signifying i feel takes some familiarity or it is just that, having words, idk as a writer, it is really refreshing to be able to use some creative liense of the spoken word and you know, communicate irl, my 2c all this academic stuff, life is too short
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@ V8 driver: Be careful with the dozens my friend. LOL! I don’t want you getting hurt out there.
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my fast-talking skills are quite remarkable
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but that also plays into ‘rap as entertainment’
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ah this is interesting, because before i had actually remember the stereotypical ‘your mother’ as well the older kids i was with in boy scouts, all ‘white’ going back and forth when i was13 or so but that is not real life but would pertain to a ‘freestyle battle’ so to speak
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Aha. Now I understand.
This must be a bit like the long-held GERMAN tradition of twerking.
Because, as we all know, twerk is an abbreviation of the full word Gesamtwerk meaning full and culminated artistic body of work, meaning moves that embody young Miley’s lifework. Of course.
Therefore, and naturally, twerking is a quintessentially German invention!
😀 😀
Agreed that exchange of dialogue, insulting or not, has a loooong tradition…but exchange of dialogue is human, and universal to human speech. I’d guess humans have been exchanging insults since they were capable of speech.
I’d also bet they were using alliteration, too. There’s alliteration (a string of words starting with the same letter) in Beowulf, but the Persian author, Rumi, for instance (about a thousand years ago), uses it, too. Perhaps English rhyming insults originated in somewhere like India, because it’s just one of the Indo-European languages. Who knows? It’s not old as the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, though.
Also odd that The Illiad is mentioned in the context of “Europe”.
Troy is supposed to be in present dayTurkey, and I’m not certain if the setting or author of The Illiad were all that European at all. Ethiopia is even mentioned in The Illiad. Any atlas will show the proximity of those areas. It’s not Europe.
I am sure though, that modern Europeans wanted to claim the civilization from that part of Asia as their own…
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77nRaygGRIE)
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also being on the maximum security blocks of the county jail in reading, pa for a few months with all the lovely killers waiting for court and stuff was a sobering experience to say the least
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bulanik “Aha. Now I understand. This must be a bit like the long-held GERMAN tradition of twerking.”
Naah. Booty dancing is all yours. That’s definitely one bit of “cultural appropriation” whites don’t need.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_aovs7PVx4)
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Don’t lie Jokazz, here’s a video of you twerking!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ubk698bYAU)
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@Herneith
ROFL
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You protesteth too much, Jokah.
I bet you shake your cakes in the mirror just as much as Miley does here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSmVvSsIYAA0jxw.jpg
But even that doesn’t make up for mixing up modern Europe with Asian places you want to say are “white”, or not knowing your BC literature and 5th century literature any different from your Beowulf…
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LmaOoooooo X-D That is all…
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King Leopold of Belgium, that another monster you can write about, I am going to order “King Leopold’s Ghost” He was evil.
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I have a tremendous amount of respect for William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown. I admire such men because they didn’t have to, they could have easily disagreed with slavery in the quite of their own homes, but instead they risked their lives and gave up their privileged in many ways when it was of no immediate benefit to them. Garrison fought his whole life, and Brown lost his for the cause. God bless them both, it’s White American’s like these who should be celebrated not the likes of Lincoln who was not interested in Abolishing slavery until the last minute after a long, violent and costly civil war.
To Garrison and Brown,
may they rest in peace and honour!
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Christopher Columbus, Thomas Edison, all of our presidents except Obama, etc.
Everyday is White history month!
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whassamatter jokah caint handle all that azz?
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I googled “Most awesome and influential white people in history” I tried the same with different wording and still got absolutely nothing. Wonder why? So searching for great people who are white is now somehow considered a bad thing?? Theres such a double standard in this country. There are “black only” rodeos, beauty pageants, etc,etc,etc If any one of these events was attempted to be held as an “all white” event, there would be cnn trucks driving up in less than 24 hours. The phrase “equal rights” is obsolete. Those words shouldnt even be used in our day and time. This country has bent over backwards to try to resolve the mistakes made throughout our growth but its time to face the music. Enough is enough. We ARE all on equal ground now so now we should move forward as a country together and grow stronger as a single unit. But of course there will always be those who try to take every advantage of our country`s historical growing pains. But one would sincerely hope that the majority of people overall were jumping onboard and only dealing with the absolute facts,not some “poll” done by cnbc. If someone has a legitimate fact based gripe, lets address it , fix it and move on. But enough of this political bullshit that only keeps the country divided. So yeah, I want to know about some white people who did great things for a report but I will have to dig deeper and collect a list myself since every list I have found is belligerent and race bias. And when finished I also plan to do a study on our Aboriginal Indians who have done great things, our Mexican people who are now Americans, , Russians who are now Americans, and of course our African brothers and sisters who are now Americans. While doing all of this, the only troubles in finding some great lists was with the White Americans. This, is absolute proof of a race bias society which is being programmed to act in this manner. So I now at least have a wonderful idea for my next book.
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@ Johnny Walker
This list is making fun of those other lists.
White people are not reduced to lists like this. Instead they are taught as History, Literature and Science: Columbus, George Washington and Lincoln; Einstein, Shakespeare and Plato. Because White History is just called History. White History Month is the month that never ends.
Adding “White” or “American” to a Google search generally gives you a worse result because of the heavy White American bias of the English-language Internet. They go without saying.
For more, see this post:
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Eminem’s heart is in the right place uses his art to protest 45 and be an ally to black Americans. I will even say he’s a decent and legitimate rapper.
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Laughing at Johnny Walker.😂😂🤣
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@ Johnny Walker
” This country has bent over backwards to try to resolve the mistakes made throughout our growth…We ARE all on equal ground now”
Not true. It has all been smoke and mirrors. Far from resolution, the “mistakes” you casually refer to have deepened and mutated into other forms.
It is fascinating that anyone would think that all persons in the USA are on “equal ground now” in one of our county’s most glaring periods of (racial, economic, social and educational) inequality.
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Respect to Jim Zerg, Michael Schwerner, and Viola Liuzzo who joined in the fight for black Americans to have voting rights in America. Rest In Peace and Power their names and work as activist should not be forgotten.
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Respect to historian Howard Zinn for his remarkable work of A People’s History of The United States and the companion books A Young People’s History Of The United States and Voices Of A People’s History Of The United States. I admire Howard Zinn for not whitewashing United States history not making white Europeans as heroes and brave explorers, especially when their agendas were thievery and genocide of indigenous people and enslavement and oppression of black Americans.
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awkward
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@ Johnny Walker
I googled “most influential people in history” and the following link was at the top of the search results.
Count how many of them are white.
https://www.biographyonline.net/people/100-most-influential.html
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wow crafting a response to this rudy martinez fellow it’s texas state i believe it’s unfortunate the english department didnt back him i can only find a .jpg of it i mean its ok but i want to take everything i learned here to it for sure wow its a project a little you know 5 pager i used to do 3 aweek or so prolly smoking bonng hits the whole time in college but you know not influenced its not going to be personal like the typicl white guy i can relate to whatever ok its going off the um road or whatever like past the rough stuff
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an that gotdurn calc 3 jesus h just passed that
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oh well i only got up to 500 level in latin only in school successfully although that was too much i dropped it i could read it great so easy like a book
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April Fools!
https://store.urbanintellectuals.com/white-history-flashcards-april-fools/
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