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re: Black inventions
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:07 am to Ricardo
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:07 am to Ricardo
So we’re the blacks wanting to make a new color for themselves by experimenting ? It must have. Even the last thing they tried in those straw huts they still pass down to the people for the last 5000 years
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Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:22 am to Tigerroar73
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:26 am to ZZTIGERS
Nope
That was Lucky Starr
That was Lucky Starr
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:27 am to Tigerroar73
The knock out game.
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:31 am to Plx1776
Blunts?
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:32 am to Tigerroar73
Being niggardly to service industry workers.
Let’s see what kind of jimmies that’ll rustle
So this site blocks a perfectly legitimate word meaning “ungenerous or stingy”
Webster
Let’s see what kind of jimmies that’ll rustle
So this site blocks a perfectly legitimate word meaning “ungenerous or stingy”
Webster
This post was edited on 8/31/24 at 7:36 am
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:36 am to Tigerroar73
We never learned about Lewis Latimer during Black History Month back when I was in school but he’s got a pretty neat story. He was a lawyer, engineer and Civil War Veteran. He invented the Carbon Light Bulb Filament. He also came up with a new bathroom layout for trains that was more practical and functional.
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The light bulb itself was perfected by Thomas Edison, but the innovation used to create longer-lasting light bulbs with a carbon filament came from African American inventor Lewis Latimer. Latimer began work in a patent law firm after serving in the military for the Union during the Civil War. He was recognized for his talent in drafting patents and was promoted to head draftsman, where he co-invented an improved bathroom for railroad trains. His successes would garner him further attention from the U.S. Electric Lighting Company, putting him at a company in direct competition with Edison, in 1880. While there, Latimer patented a new filament for the light bulb, using carbon instead of more combustible materials, like bamboo, that was commonly used for filaments. The addition of the carbon filament increased the life span and practicality of light bulbs, which had previously died after just a few days. In 1884, he went on to work with Edison at the Edison Electric Light Company.
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:49 am to Tigerroar73
My 3rd grade kid came home one day spouting some nonsense about some black guy that invented the stoplight…asking me if I knew who he was etc (I didn’t)….he then started telling me all these useless facts about him. I asked if he knew who Thomas Edison was and he had no idea and had never heard the name.
Our kids are being indoctrinated in public schools. Stay frosty.
Our kids are being indoctrinated in public schools. Stay frosty.
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:53 am to Tigerroar73
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Why are black people given credit for so many things they didn't really invent? They even take credit for the invention of peanut butter away from the Aztecs in order to pretend that black people invented it. Other than the super soaker, are there any real black inventions?
This is what you think about at 4am on Saturday morning?
I don’t think you really want an answer, but if you do, I would also suggest the book “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond. It addresses why certain societies are more technologically advanced than others, which I think is the point you are getting at.
This post was edited on 8/31/24 at 7:58 am
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:54 am to ZZTIGERS
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I’m gonna say rap?
Even that took the brilliance of a few white men(Lyor Cohen, Rick Rubin, Beastie boys) to get going in popular culture.
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:55 am to Shamoan
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:57 am to reggierayreb
quote:Is bullshite. He basically invented a shorter lasting light bulb. Mind you, that's what was desired, as the bulb making companies wanted them to fail after about 1000 hours. They even entered into an agreement that none of their bulbs would exceed that, or they'd be fined.
Lewis Latimer
But that doesn't stop black teachers from teaching kids that he 'invented the light bulb.' They don't even qualify it, as you did. According to them, he just invented the whole thing. It's like Soviet-style alt history.
quote:was invented by Joseph Swan.
He invented the Carbon Light Bulb Filament
The traffic light guy is bullshite too.
This post was edited on 8/31/24 at 8:10 am
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:57 am to Tigerroar73
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Why are black people given credit for so many things they didn't really inven
Honestly it’s because they have done so little for the world that we kind of throw them a bone. That’s really what it is. Maybe times were different during the ancient Egyptian era, but the last 2000 years, black people have done absolutely jack shite. What little they’ve accomplished in America dwarfs what the free blacks did in Africa.
White people built the country and are, at the very least, 90% of the reason the world got as advanced as it did the last 2000 years. It’s not really debatable, it’s just not PC to say that.
This post was edited on 8/31/24 at 7:59 am
Posted on 8/31/24 at 7:57 am to Tigerroar73
Soul Glo
Posted on 8/31/24 at 8:00 am to Tigerroar73
No way whitey invented
Posted on 8/31/24 at 8:01 am to Tigerroar73
This thread is bad. So we have credit for peanut butter to an American? Good.
Posted on 8/31/24 at 8:02 am to Buryl
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I would also suggest the book “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond. It addresses why certain societies are more technologically advanced than others, which I think is the point you are getting at.
That book is bullshite by the way.
This post was edited on 8/31/24 at 8:02 am
Posted on 8/31/24 at 8:04 am to lsufanva
Trivia: first woman with a #1 hip hop hit?
Posted on 8/31/24 at 8:09 am to ChineseBandit58
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Didn't a black man invent traffic lights?? = seems I remember something like that.
Is it just me or does William Potts look suspiciously like Garrett Morgan?
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