Historical Contributions Quotes
What is facinating is that the same issue was raised by the 11th Century Muslims of the Middle East about allowing white Christians into their lands, Europe had gone throught the Dark Ages and enering into the Middle Ages where Chrsitian Contributions to civilization were minimal, while the Muslims were inventing algebra, astronomy, art, architecture, poetry, and exceleld in medicine. The few Christian scholars studied in Muslim lands if they could. King reveals his own ignorance by such a statement. He never realzied that the Mexican Artist Diego Rivera was not only a great congtributor to the world of art, but to this day major buildings in the United States including LaGuardia Airpoirt display his great murals. Nobel laureates in Literature were many from Hispanic America. That the state of the art of the medical field of plastic surgery has been centered in Brazil for a number of years, how Muslim Nations like Turkey allowed women to vote before teh United States did, and the great conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra is a man from Venesuela. There are thousands of counterexamples to Smith's implication in his question.
