Why do blacks lie about inventing things like the traffic signal?

Apparently for some it is hard to differentiate between inventing "A" traffic signal and "THE" traffic signal. The traffic signal was in existence in many forms before Mr. Morgan put his out there.

Same thing with peanut butter in this instance. These things are all documented thought the patent office.

I however, do not use this to discredit these men as they were possessed of some intellect and inventiveness and their individual contributions should not be diminished just because somebody has placed claims on them to bolster some sense of "racial pride" or "racial awareness."

But you are correct and the answer as to why this is done is self evident. I'm sure Mr. Carver or Mr. Morgan was wondering where "we" were at when they labored on their various projects in relative poverty.

Can I say "we" invented the light bulb in reference to whites? Hardly.

Just because a white man did something great once doesn't mean "we" did it.

There is no "we" in innovation, only the innovator alone.

So what exactly is the question?

I guess the answer is "They were ill informed"

Although today's modern traffic signals are based on Morgan's design!!!

Why not mention that he invented the gas mask....?

Sounds like you aren't necessarily lying, but trying to manipulate information

Honey you seem to have A LOT of anger in you for you to come on here and rant like this. You don't seem to understand the simple thing of inventions. Someone can "invent" something that has already been thought of by others. the only one that counts or is most appreciated that is, is the one that is most effective. Also, people can add onto a "previous" invention and perfect it.

Why on earth would you come on Yahoo Answers and provide TWO instances of false "black" inventions. Does that make you "superior"

Don't try to insult Carver now. He was a brilliant scientist and botanist, even Time Magazine admitted that!!

Actually alot of these inventions are in a musaem in Cleveland with thier patents and the name of thier BLACK inventors..Ive seen them with my own eyes and you can too.

Did you know that Christopher Columbus wasn't the first to discover the new world??

Are you a Wikipedia junkie? Why do people get their sources from this site? This has been proven many times from your first and last dollar that this invention is by a Black person.

we invented the internet http://www.cnn.com/fyi/interactive/specials/bhm/st...

we invented that and much more...hold up I will make a list

black people werent given the credit because well THEY WERE BLACK! and the first white person to learn of it would be given the credit by default

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