- Mar 11, 2015
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To say Augustus Jackson invented ice cream, would be the same as saying Dale Earnhardt Jr's pit crew chief invented the wheel.![]()
I didn't know Jr's pit crew invented the wheel![]()
Take for instance the idea Augustus Jackson "invented" ice cream. Augustus was an awesome man by all standards. He rose to the level of being a chef in the White House. He perfected methods for making ice cream, and had some wonderful recipes. He took both of those, and built a commercial capitalistic empire around his ice cream and became one of the wealthiest men in his time.
What accomplishments Augustus Jackson made go so far beyond the ridiculous idea he "invented" ice cream, it doesn't do justice to the man to say that. Part of what made Augustus, as some would put it, The Father of Modern Ice Cream, really had more to do with his abilities to produce, market and capitalize his ice cream business. Give credit where it is due, and credit for the accomplishments the man made. Recognize Augustus Jackson is the perfect example of pursuing the American Dream.
That doesn't fit IM2's narrative, because Augustus Jackson wasn't taking "no" for an answer. He didn't "invent" ice cream, but he accomplished so much more. There is no need to lie about what the man accomplished, in order to promote a false narrative. He was a great man without any racial context. Why the heck would someone want to sully his accomplishments by suggesting he did something he didn't, in order to serve no other purpose than making a stupid racial connection, to promote the silly idea racial division is necessary and unescapable?
What Augustus Jackson accomplished would be awesome for any man regardless of race. He still didn't invent ice cream.
You have chosen to nitpick and that is an indication of your lack of character. What exactly is my narrative supposed to be? I am not the one saying he invented ice cream. He is just pointed out in a video I did not make. So if your ass has a problem with the person saying that find who made the video and send him your comments. Other than that you are trolling and looking for reason to keep doing so. I know you want to leave racial context out of everything only when its abut things that affect whites which does not praise them. But that doesn't happen at any time, never has happened at any time and racism is not going to die in the white communiy after over 400 continuous years of practicing it. So until you address the inaccuracy taught us about whites in US history you have no critique to give.
Whites created the racial divisions here.
"A nation is a choice. It chooses itself at fateful forks in the road by turning left or right, by giving up something or taking something -- and in the giving up and the taking, in the deciding and not deciding, the nation becomes. And ever afterwards, the nation and the people who make up the nation are defined by the fork and by the decision that was made there, as well as by the decision that was not made there. For the decision, once made, engraves itself into the landscape, engraves itself into things, into institutions, nerves, muscles, tendons; and the first decision requires a second decision, and the second decision requires a third, and
62 THE SHAPING OF BLACK AMERICA
it goes on and on, spiraling in an inexorable processus which distorts everything and alienates everybody.
America became America that way. Fork by fork, step by step, option by option, America or, to be more precise, the men who spoke in the name of America decided that it was going to be a white place defined negatively by the bodies and the blood of the reds and the blacks. And that decision, which was made in the 1660s and elaborated over a two-hundred-year period, foreclosed certain possibilities in America -- perhaps forever -- and set off depth charges that are still echoing and re-echoing in the commonwealth. What makes this all the more mournful is that it didn't have to happen that way. There was another road -- but that road wasn't taken. In the beginning, as we have seen, there was no race problem in America. The race problem in America was a deliberate invention of men who systematically separated blacks and whites in order to make money."
From Lerone Bennett, The Shaping of Black America.
'The Road Not Taken', by Lerone Bennett
So until you find the guts to stop whites from practicing racism anywhere, don't lecture me.