White people are like Pabst Blue Ribbon beer

Both are still costing off distant accomplishments in the past (PBR won a blue ribbon in the 1890s, about 200 years after newton died)

White people are like the railroad industry

they both peaked impressively in the 19th century but their blind hubris-driven hypocrisy and failure to innovate led to them being replaced by sleeker and less expensive forms of travel in more modern times