I dont believe in the idea of white privilege, but everyone seems to suffer from it. Dont believe me? Let me tell you the story of your life. Your at work, and boy is the day is dragging on. You look at the clock - the two oldest clocks are located in the France and Germany. Thank God! Its 5pm - time to clock out. Your closing today, so you proceed to turn off all the lights - the light switch, invented by the European John Henry Holmes, signals the AC circuit, invented by the European Tesla (who also invented DC power) to close This shuts off the light bulb, invented by the European Thomas Edison. You then lock up, using a pin tumbler lock (which originated in Assyria), but was modernized by the European Linus Yale Sr. You then walk on the asphault, invented by the European Edward de Smedt, and wirelessly unlock your car with your keychain remote, invented by the European Paul Lipschutz. You put your key in the ignition and turn. Clink clink clink Brummmm! Your car turns on, its Engine invented by a European Karl Friedrich Benz. Your car has been in the parking lot all day and the leather is hot, so you turn on your cars AC - AC being invented by the European Willis Carrier. You then turn on your radio, invented by the European Heinrich Hertz, and decide to listen to either your CD, which was invented by the European James T Russell, or listen to your MP3 player (the first ever invented by the European Kane Kramer). You suddenly get a call on your cell phone, the first phone having been invented by the European Graham Bell. This phone is powered by a battery, the first battery capable of releasing a constant voltage (therefore usable by circuitry) was invented by the European John Frederic Daniell. The power transits down a circuit powered by multiple electronic peripherals: the transistors, invented by the Europeans Walter Houser Brattain and John Bardeen; the resistors, the modern form created by the African American Otis Frank Boykin, which is an improvement of vacuum tubes, whose first inventor is thought to be Tesla or even Edison; this then and goes through inductors, invented by Michael Faraday; the current finally reaches the microprocessor, invented by Two Europeans: Marcian Hoff and Stanley Mazor, and one Asian American Masatoshi Shima. The circuit also uses capacitors, invented by the European Ewald Georg von Kleist. You almost run a stoplight, the first electric one being invented not by a black man as a urban legend states, but by the European Lester Farnsworth Wire. You hit a pothole and your car takes the strain because of your spring suspension, invented by the European Obadiah Elliot. Finally! You are home. You pull into your driveway, and your garage doors motion sensor, invented by Heinrich Hertz, engages the electronic door lift, powered by Teslas electricity. You turn your car off, and proceed towards your front door. You are fumbling through your purse to find the keys, then you glance through your window and see the kids are inside. You start knocking on the door to get their attention. No matter how hard you knock, you might as well be on the moon - they are completely oblivious to your presence. Angrily, you repeatedly ring the doorbell, DING DING DING DING DING - invented by the European William Murdoch. They finally unlock the door and you walk inside. Your kids welcome you home after a hard day at work by complaining they are hungry, so you sigh, and then grab the turkey that is about to go bad from your refrigerator, invented by the European William Cullen, and put it in your oven, invented by the European James Sharp. You decide you want something quick, so you open your freezer, the first being a creation of the European Marjorie Merriweather Post, and throw your hot pocket in your microwave, invented by the European Harry Boot. You then look at the LED clock on the microwave - the LED invented by the European Oleg Losev, and you have just enough time to catch your favorite TV show. You grab your remote and turn on your plasma TV, invented by the European Kalman Tihanyi, and watch it on cable tv, invented by the European John Walson Sr. There is a commercial on, so you grab your phone and try to log in on your wifi connection, which owes much of its credit to the European John OSullivan. The connection is down, so your phone automatically switches to its 2G connection, powered by the European invention of radar and radio, which uses satellites - the first sputnik, headed by the European Sergei Korolev. You browse the internet - its predecessor ARPANET created by the Europeans Joseph Licklider, Ivan Sutherland and Robert Taylor. Its utilizes programming languages - first programming language was invented by the European Konrad Zuse. You put your hot pocket in for too long, the smoke created sets off your fire alarm, the first being invented by the European Francis Robbins Upton. Your show ends and you still have some fight left in you, so you decide to vacuum the rugs, the first vacuum cleaner being invented by the European Hubert Cecil Booth. Drained, but still determined, you decide to go downstairs to do a load of laundry. You put a load in the washer, invented by the European Jacob Christian Schaffer, and put in detergent, created by the Europeans James Gamble and William Procter, and bleach invented by the European Charles Macintosh. You throw a load in the dryer, invented by the European Brooks Stevens. Finally that is over with! You go back upstairs and glance at your computer table - the mouse invented by the European Ralph Benjamin, and the QWERTY keyboard invented by the European Christopher Latham Sholes. You quickly take note of your big fat ancient CRT Screen, invented by the European John Joseph Thompson. Shaking your head, you realize to yourself how dated that thing makes you look, and that really need to upgrade. Your security alarm - invented by the European Augustus Russell Pope, goes off, but its a false alarm, so you turn it off. Your decide its time to hit the hay. You turn down the heat - your houses boiler invented by the European John Blakey or your furnace invented by the European Robert Bunsen, or you use central heating - all methods invented by Europeans. You brush your teeth with an electric toothbrush, the first invented by the European Philippe-Guy Woog. Its hot in your room, and white noise helps you sleep, so you then turn on your fan, invented by the European Philip Diehl. You go to sleep. You wake up and go to the bathroom, and flush your excrement down your modern flush toilet, invented by the European John Harrington, which is pumped out of your house, the first pump being invented by the European Nicolas Grollier. It then reaches the chemical plant, the first means of chemical seweage treatment being invented by the European Edward Franklin. You wash your hands in your sink, the ancient forerunner, the gravity run washstand credited as an invention of the Greeks. You turn off the faucet, the first hot/cold mixer tap being invented by the European Thomas Campbell, which has sanitary water because of chlorination, credited to the European Moritz Traube. After taking a shower, you turn on your stereo, invented by the European Celement Ader, which sends sounds through your speakers, invented by the European Johann Philip Reis (and highly improved by Graham Bell). You grab a glass of pasteurized milk, that is safe from harmful microbes due to the work of Louis Pasteur, and throw some eggs onto your favorite Teflon pan, invented by the European Roy Plunkett. You then go on your merry way, remembering how White Privilege almost completely gave you the wonders and ease of modern living. Any questions? - EFERAS https://facebook/EuropeansForEuropeanRightsAndSolidarity
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 06:10:32 +0000
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