I have often heard this question "Why is the White Man on top and not some other race?" brought up, usually with a racist answer. A couple weeks ago I found this book. I took my time, enjoyed the reading, and put it aside as a repeat read when I have had a little time to digest it's contents. This book is a MUST READ for all educated folk, especially African Americans. It is logical, researched, and authenticated, and should lay to rest once and for all any myths of racial superiority not already discredited.
The book is the Pulitzer Prize winning "Guns, Germs, and Steel", by Jared Diamond, PhD. The book is easy to read if you are not in a hurry, and explains the present White domination of the world as a product of a fortuitous combination of available resources. If the Chinese, Africans, or anyone else had been the first into Europe, they would now be the leading power in the world.
An excellent book.