Hoaxes about black achievement go back quite a ways. A black commenter on YouTube took exception to my remarks about the intellectual deficiencies of his race and haughtily directed my attention to the Dogon people, a black African tribe, were teaching advanced astronomical knowledge to white people during the early 20th century. I didnt know at once what, exactly, this Negro was referring to. As far as I knew, the only original scholarship that the Dogon had to teach any white people involved their theological beliefs. The very idea that they were more accomplished than white people in scientific discovery was amusing. And so it turned out to be. Because what this black fellow was talking about was the fact that the Dogon knew about the existence of a white dwarf star known as Sirius B. In the grand tradition of the ol nigger bluff, this guy tried to sell me on the idea that the Dogon were the first to discover Sirius B, and that the white man learned all he knew about the astrodynamics of the Sirius star system at the feet of a wise African tutor. Of course, the truth is otherwise. The existence of Sirius B was indirectly discovered in 1833, when a (white) German astronomer named Friedrich Bessel noticed that the bright component star (Sirius A) seemed to wobble around a point on the sky. By 1844, Bessel had mathematically deduced the elliptical orbit of the companion star. In 1862, a (white) American astronomer named Alvan Clark made the first direct observation of Sirius B, confirming what Bessel had calculated. The records regarding Dogon knowledge of Sirius B go back to 1931, which is the year that French anthropologist Marcel Griaule began to study them. So what apparently happened is that the Dogon, through prior contact with white people, learned what white people had discovered about Sirius B, and parroted that particular bit of lore back to a white anthropologist. Blacks just will never give up this sort of fraudulent rigmarole. They dont have any record of intellectual progress prior to their contact with Europeans, and theyve made very little progress of their own since. Everything from Dr. Neil deGrasse Tysons Ph.D. to the railroads in South Africa was enabled by the civilization that whites built.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 23:48:52 +0000
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