Questioning the Genius of Aristotle

There probably is no one who has had more influence on history than Aristotle. I don't mean that as a compliment to him. He was wrong on many issues, mostly attributable to his prejudices. His common sense approach to figuring things out cost humanity thousands of years of progress. It is even possible that the concept of white supremacy can be traced back to his tutelage of Alexander the Great.

I was surprised to see that a blog post I wrote twelve years ago about whether or not Aristotle was a genius had been viewed thousands of times. Through my neglect, the comments had attracted a lot of spam. Once I cleared them out, I was happy to see that people had definite opinions about the topic, and also about how big of an idiot I needed to be to question his genius. Few were supportive of my thoughts about him.

White Society is to Blame for Black Cops Beating Tyre Nichols to Death

I imagine there was more than just a sigh of relief from many white people when five Memphis police officers were charged with murder for the beating death of an unarmed Black man. The sigh of relief was because all five of the former police officers charged with the murder to Tyre Nichols are themselves Black men. Some people may believe that the five former officers were charged with murder because they are Black men, but the police chief who fired them and had them arrested them for murder is a Black woman. 

It may seem like a difficult challenge to untangle how all these Black people treated one another and to blame it on white society, but it is easier to understand if some terms are clarified.