Not that I'm a big fan of English colonialism, but I just read that people in South Africa want to tear down a statue of Queen Victoria and replace it with something representing the "African struggle.' It goes without saying that this will ignore the struggle of any Africans that aren't black-skinned. Replace one racist symbol with another. Eventually, in the world's eagerness to erase any symbols of white history infavor of "oppressed minorities" we will forget that white people ever had anything to contribute to civilization. I just hope, in one hundred years, that we haven't forgotten about the struggle to create democracy, the struggle to explore the world, the struggle to create technology that has allowed billions to watch TV, to talk to people on other continents, to protect their foodstuffs from pests, the struggle to understand concepts like gravity and nuclear bonding, and the struggle to send humans into space. Compared to all this, the struggle of other peoples to equal white Europeans and their descendants pales in comparison. Every race, color, and creed has contributed to the world as we know it today. I challenge you to keep your eyes peeled as you go through your daily routine today, and acknowledge to yourself the fact that most every bit of technology you use, every societal norm that you take for granted, came from white people. Those contributions should be lauded equally to contributions of other races, yet somehow I'm made to feel like I should be ashamed that I hold the inventor of the motion picture in higher esteem than the guy who found a million uses for the peanut, none of which I use except when eating PB&J.

A few other things invented by my White European oppressors:
Rock and roll
Transistor radio
Almost every part of the computer I'm using
Pizza
Hamburgers
Coca-cola
Flourescent lights
Rockets that can reach space
The communications satellite (actually invetned by Arthur C. Clarke, a science-fiction author, and years later implemented)
The stock market