Suppose someone said, for example, "Alexander Graham Bell, a white man, invented the telephone". At least to me that would sound a bit odd. Why is the speaker feeling it necessary to note that Bell was white?
Suppose that this person keeps presenting more similar statements, like "Thomas Edison, a white guy, invented the lightbulb", "Johannes Gutenberg, a white man, invented the printing press", and so on.
At least I would start thinking that this person is having some kind of racially motivated agenda. If subsequent conversations would confirm that yes, he is explicitly listing inventions by white people in order to emphasize and highlight that they were done by white people, I would quite quickly start suspecting that person of being some kind of racist white supremacist.
Why the need to bring up the race of an inventor? What does the race matter? To me, the telephone was invented by "Alexander Graham Bell", not "a white man". I don't care, nor should I care, what the skin color of the person might have been. I can admire him for his ingenuity, knowledge and achievements, regardless of what he happened to look like.
Most prominently, if this person were to start explicitly attributing all these inventions to "white people" rather than the individual people who actually did the inventions, I would consider it quite racist. No, "white people", as a whole, did not invent those things. Those named individuals did.
So, why would this be any different if we substituted "white" with, for example, "black"? Why would it be any less racist to say "black people invented XYZ"? Why would it be any less racist to highlight the skin color of a particular inventor?
No, "black people" did not invent that thing. A particular individual person did (or a small group of people in some cases). The skin color of that person is completely inconsequential. I don't care if the skin pigmentation happened to be pale, dark, or any other complexion. That has no effect on anything. Anybody who starts highlighting the race of inventors, and attributing those inventions to the whole race, is a textbook racist. It doesn't matter which race we are talking about.
The scary thing is that this kind of blatant racism is being broadcast on prime time television and on the social media and video sharing service channels of very popular creators and broadcasters, and it's getting more and more common, and more and more blatant.
They say that western society is deeply racist. They are correct. It's just that they can't see that they are the racists. They are in actuality talking about themselves, while being completely oblivious about it.
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