What Have Non Whites Contributed To Civilisation? Steve King dared ask the obvious

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• published: 19 Jul 2016
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I'm by a large margin not a White/Caucasian apologists but looking at this video and the furore it's raised, my take of it perhaps vastly differs from that of most of my African friends and family. To be candid it's more how he said it that unnerves me. We can't deny western civilisation has contributed a lot of good to society but also a lot of bad, history isn't black and white (get it?) but Gray. But calling other people "sub-groups" is what really bothered me, there is only one race and that is the human race we have very many different cultures yes but in the end we're all categorised into the species Homo-sapien. Also I think what happened here with Steve King at this moment, not to say he is or is not a raving racist but just this exchange, it seems he was pushed into retaliating as most men do when ego and sense of self comes under attack. Here is another white guy basically saying whites are nothing, rubbish to put it mildly, there are only crazy, low class, disenfranchised, uneducated white people here in the hall etc. I would flip too put in that situation. He got tired of having his party and his heritage bashed, maybe he went over the top but the other guy Pierce started all of it if you ask me. He was really going in on white people. Everybody thinks its cool to hate on white people, its not. Just in case you are scratching your head now..I'm black and a woman but I routinely call out White people who are out of bounds but here Steve King was pushed and he was only reacting to an attack. With that said these Twats couldn't even counter his utterance by laying out basic facts, for instance, the basic mathematics of place-value based number system (aka decimal system). The Arabs got it from India, and Fibonacci introduced it to Western Europe in 1202. Western European savagery, genocide and land theft of continental proportions.. of North And South America.. gave it an enormous boost starting from 1492. Surely that aided in the maintenance of an elite-class of scientists and technologists. How can that not be included when evaluating the overall contribution? (i.e as Chris Hayes said, there is a Hitler/Stalin on the other side) What despicable people. Downplay and rewrite History of all other civilisations. Thanks to these Right Wingers, Its easy to visualise how the savagery of colonialism and imperialism was possible. Just wondering if the other quests were too shocked to think but there are countless things other civilisations figured out. I read about massive Chinese contributions to science and Technology documented by Joseph Needham in 10 volumes from 1954 .{Science and Civilisation in China (1954–2015) is a series of books initiated and edited by Joseph Needham. They deal with the history of science and technology in China. To date there have been seven volumes in twenty-seven books. The series was on the Modern Library Board's 100 Best Nonfiction books of the 20th century. In 1954, Needham along with an international team of collaborators initiated the project to study the science, technology, and civilisation of ancient China. This project produced a series of volumes published by Cambridge University Press. The project is still continuing under the guidance of the Publications Board of the Needham Research Institute (NRI), chaired by Christopher Cullen. Needham's transliteration of Chinese characters uses the Wade-Giles system, though the aspirate apostrophe (e.g., ch'i) was rendered 'h' (viz. chhi; traditional Chinese: 氣; Mandarin Pinyin: qì). However, it was abandoned in favor of the pinyin system by the NRI board in April 2004, with Volume 5, Part 11 becoming the first to use the new system. I also stumbled opon a wonderful and educative program by Physicist Jim Al Khalili on the BBC's 'Scence and Islam' that explores various things the Persians, Arabs, Moors, etc contributed. All traces of that were downplayed and erased because the Christians after winning Spain back in 1492 didn't want to acknowledge any "debt" to the Muslims. Then there's the 'Black Athena' theory of Martin Bernal from the late 1980s. The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985). India had plenty of things that the Colonial Brits (and Portuguese before them in 1500s) took and claimed as their own. for instance some aspects of Calculus were picked up from Kerala School of Mathematics by the Portuguese and taken to Europe. It is believed that Liebnitz "borrowed" that and used it. After recent research, the Math community has renamed those as 'Madhava-Liebnitz' series. Britain have in their own documents written that Indian medics were proto-vaccining their populations from Smallpox, using a technique called 'Variolation'. They took this technique to Europe. So many contributions from so many civilizations. Ok back to the video