re: Fred Reed defends white people -don't feel ashamed

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DawgsLife

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Well it looks pike you are an Edson fan, because Carver never invented peanut butter. People love to promote this dumb arse myth, especially black people. Muh peanut butter.

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Race is brazenly and gleefully exploited by both politicians and the media alike. It's a crying shame....I can think of few things less indicative of a person's character than their melanin levels.

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I agree. It is a way to get elected and stay elected...or to demonize. It is used by both sides very effectively and our society suffers for it.

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Well it looks pike you are an Edson fan, because Carver never invented peanut butter. People love to promote this dumb arse myth, especially black people. Muh peanut butter.

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CRAP! You are right!

But many people have been credited with the title of peanut-butter-inventor, among them George Washington Carver. However, he did not invent peanut butter; instead he promoted more than 300 uses for peanuts, among other crops such as soy beans and sweet potatoes.

The actual invention of peanut butter, its process of manufacture and the machinery used to make it, can be credited to at least three doctors/inventors. In 1884 Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Canada patented peanut paste, the finished product from milling roasted peanuts between two heated surfaces.

I am old, and that is what we were taught as a kid. Man! That's ok. I still love me some peanut butter!

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Our society has tried to push on us that every human being begins with tabula rasa, or blank slate, characteristics. It is the idea that all human beings are born the same and, to some extent, that all cultural values are relative and deserve the same appraisal as being equally virtuous or not.

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I can agree to a point. I do believe we become people based upon our culture, and our experiences. No matter what those experiences are (Good, bad or otherwise) they have an impact on who we become.

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I don't believe this. There are certain demographics which have certain advantages over others in certain areas (lotta sports examples in here, but also a lot of academic and vocational as well).

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Again, I think we can agree, somewhat with what you are saying. I am not sure when it comes to academic and vocational, though. Maybe, maybe not. For me the jury is still out. I have to wonder how much our cultural upbringing plays into both of these.
One personal example, is my son was in Middle School and was making straight "A's". Other kids began to make fun of him and his kids began to drop more into the "B" range from the peer pressure....not because of his ability or inability to do the work. He began to wrestle, and went to a University of Missouri camp held here in Georgia, and their Wrestling Coach, Brian Smith said, "I don't care how good a wrestler you are, if you don't have the grades, you will not wrestle at the collegiate level." BOOM! His grades went back to straight "A's". So it was more cultural, (Peer pressure, etc) than anything. (I do realize this is anecdotal, and not a scientific study)

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Likewise, there are certain cultures whose values are more virtuous than others.

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values and virtues vary by states, Countries and continents. What is virtuous and considered good values vary.
I am a Christian. What I consider virtuous and having good values differs from what (Maybe) you and many others on this board think. And we definitely differ from continent to continent. There are different values among, whites, blacks, Latinos etc. So I would disagree with you on this, if I am understanding you correctly.

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If you are a white student in college, you doubtless hear daily that white people are evil, the principal cause of everything wrong with the world. Whiteness is bad, white people are bad. We are to blame for everything.

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I never once heard anything remotely like this when I was at the University of Alabama. Did you SEC guys hear this?

And so the backlash starts to get rolling.