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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]and Steve jobs got credit for Apple but many more behind the scenes did the work, so what?

[b]What is your point this happens everywhere everyday[/b]

Look at the guy at 3m who invented post its.  [/quote]

I wonder if the tables were turned, would you still be saying this?

A minority is credited as one of history's greatest inventors, but it was later discovered that a white man actually did much of the work. Guess what--he would be labeled a fraud and repudiated.

But when whites do it, it's okay? 
Just goes to show you that minorities are held to double standards.[/quote]

Minority here & couldn't disagree more.

I worked on the Hill for a while for a Minority politician. The politicians speeches, ideas, legislation, etc were all written by his White staff. He still got credit. For centuries, apprentices always assisted the master craftsman but the master craftsman always got credit.

Chefs, sous-chefs, same thing. Architects (think Frank Lloyd Wright and others), all the same thing.

This has nothing to do with race. It's just the nature of apprenticeship. The truly talented apprentices are able to "break out" later on to establish themselves under their own names. So on, and so forth.[/quote]

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