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practically nothing in this country for the past two centuries was actually built by the white European protestants Gonna strongly disagree with you there. Loo
by bilbo0s 3y ago
practically nothing in this country for the past two centuries was actually built by the white European protestants
Gonna strongly disagree with you there. Look, many people don't like it, but the truth is that many of those myths you just proffered are only half true. Many Chinese participated in building railroads, but so did many, many white protestants. And guess who designed the rail roads and surveyed the routes. Also, not to put too fine a point on it, but the entire system was kicked off through the labor of blacks who built the rail system in the east long before many of either the Chinese or the poor white protestants even got here. And did most of the dirty work to extend it west so that the Chinese you're talking about could connect it.
Canals, again, were definitely designed and organized by white protestants. And, also again, blacks did the majority of the early work there too. Why? Because everyone else, from the native americans we tried, to the Irish, tended to die from malarial disease doing that work. Horrible as it sounds to say, it's more accurate to say that many Irish, um, "made sure blacks were working hard to build the canals". But to write white protestants out of that story? When they literally conceived and designed the whole thing? Nonsense.
And on and on. I mean really? Italians built New York? Where do you think the harbor came from that the Italian immigrants sailed into? The infrastructure fairy? Where do you think the engineers who conceived those bridges, harbors, ports, Ellis Island, etc etc came from? Out of the butt of a rainbow colored skittles pooping unicorn? It was white protestants. (I'll make you even madder, most of them were male.) Oh, by the way, guess who the protestants had doing the work in the caissons? It wasn't Italians. Slavery was horrible. Especially for blacks. But it got $#!t done.
You can believe your origin myths if you like, but please, don't try to make your space in America by attempting to write other people out of theirs.