I sat and tried to make sense out of a statement by a PhD type person....hyped on the violence and BLM business. At some point, she uttered the suggestion....folks need to dump 'white history', 'white mathematics' and 'white science'. Mind you....this is a person with a PhD.
Over the past hour or two, it's been on my mind.
She's basically saying that 'black mathematics' exist (somewhere), and we need to settle in with this new direction. Course, if you took her serious, then 'Latino mathematics' and 'Asian mathematics' also exist.
What she misses on this, if she'd ever studied math in any degree....mathematics is a Arab-region creation. You can go back 1,100 years and find vast amount of creation involving algebra, irrational numbers, negative numbers, and cubic equations. Whatever the Greeks created....the Arabs took to the next level.
'White science'? If Einstein were around, he'd be having a laugh, and wondering where this came from.
The problem I see with this entire argument....eventually you come to 'white' medicine. So you are some non-white guy, and you walk into the emergency room.....with a serious condition. The white doctor and the black intern ask you if you want 'white' medicine treatment or 'black' medicine treatment. You will utter some profane comment and just say that you'd like to live, without much pain involved.
At this point, you ponder upon science and mathematics, and realize this whole discussion was a waste of time.
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