The Rap Story

Over on the western side of Frankfurt....lies the suburb of Gallus (2 km by 1 km in size).  Most folks (even Americans who were around Frankfurt in the 1970s/1980s) would say there's really not much there to talk about.

At some point early on Saturday evening....calls came to the police.  Gunshots, from Gallus.

What they found upon arrival were around 30-odd guys....standing around, with a lot of video equipment....making some type of music-video.  The police read the Corona ban rules to them, and noted that even if this was a rap-video situation....they didn't really have permission to shoot video like this.  Then the cops looked around and guns/drugs were noted with the some of 30-odd guys.

Oddly enough, after they'd ID'ed all of the thirty....most all of them were non-Frankfurt residents. So the Corona rules were read out to them, and fines paperwork was issued.

In the past year or two.....private rap video production has ramped up here in Germany and there are probably a hundred different groups who make their own video, with high-tech equipment.  From my prospective, it's more of a hobby, than a money-maker.

Making TV productions or video productions?  Generally, every major city has rules and you apply for the situation....stating how you won't disturb property, upset locals with violence, or hinder traffic or safety.  But I doubt if these small private groups care for all the extra rules. 

Talking Math and Science

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.