Why can't bl acks realize their contributions to the US?

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Why do the black communities not use these people as examples of their people and their minds. All we ever hear is how they are put down. I even knew about these inventions and when discussing them with a black HS senior she had not clue! What do they celebrate black history month for? Is it to say "We are put down and can't accomplish anything because of the whites?"  I think that instead of crying victim all the time they need to think of the positive and how some blacks have given to society instead of taking. Thats why I feel no pity for the ones who hang in gangs and live totally on welfare. I have precious black friends who are appalled at the actions of their race.



 
List of Things Invented by Black People:

    air conditioning unit: Frederick M. Jones; July 12, 1949
    almanac: Benjamin Banneker; Approx 1791
    auto cut-off switch: Granville T. Woods; January 1,1839
    auto fishing devise: G. Cook; May 30, 1899
    automatic gear shift: Richard Spikes; February 28, 1932
    baby buggy: W.H. Richardson; June 18, 1899
    bicycle frame: L.R. Johnson; Octber 10, 1899
    biscuit cutter: A.P. Ashbourne; November 30, 1875
    blood plasma bag: Charles Drew; Approx. 1945
    cellular phone: Henry T. Sampson; July 6, 1971
    chamber commode: T. Elkins; January 3, 1897
    clothes dryer: G. T. Sampson; June 6, 1862
    curtain rod: S. R. Scratton; November 30, 1889
    curtain rod support: William S. Grant; August 4, 1896
    door knob: O. Dorsey; December 10, 1878
    door stop: O. Dorsey; December 10, 1878
    dust pan: Lawrence P. Ray; August 3, 1897
    egg beater: Willie Johnson; February 5, 1884
    electric lampbulb: Lewis Latimer; March 21, 1882
    elevator: Alexander Miles; October 11, 1867
    eye protector: P. Johnson; November 2, 1880
    fire escape ladder: J. W. Winters; May 7, 1878
    fire extinguisher: T. Marshall; October 26, 1872
    folding bed: L. C. Bailey; July 18, 1899
    folding chair: Brody & Surgwar; June 11, 1889
    fountain pen: W. B. Purvis; January 7, 1890
    furniture caster: O. A. Fisher; 1878
    gas mask: Garrett Morgan; October 13, 1914
    golf tee: T. Grant; December 12, 1899
    guitar: Robert F. Flemming, Jr. March 3, 1886
    hair brush: Lydia O. Newman; November 15,18–
    hand stamp: Walter B. Purvis; February 27, 1883
    horse shoe: J. Ricks; March 30, 1885
    ice cream scooper: A. L. Cralle; February 2, 1897
    improv. sugar making: Norbet Rillieux; December 10, 1846
    insect-destroyer gun: A. C. Richard; February 28, 1899
    ironing board: Sarah Boone; December 30, 1887
    key chain: F. J. Loudin; January 9, 1894
    lantern: Michael C. Harvey; August 19, 1884
    lawn mower: L. A. Burr; May 19, 1889
    lawn sprinkler: J. W. Smith; May 4, 1897
    lemon squeezer: J. Thomas White; December 8, 1893
    lock: W. A. Martin; July 23, 18–
    lubricating cup: Ellijah McCoy; November 15, 1895
    lunch pail: James Robinson; 1887
    mail box: Paul L. Downing; October 27, 1891
    mop: Thomas W. Stewart; June 11, 1893
    motor: Frederick M. Jones; June 27, 1939
    peanut butter: George Washington Carver; 1896
    pencil sharpener: J. L. Love; November 23, 1897
    record player arm: Joseph Hunger Dickenson January 8, 1819
    refrigerator: J. Standard; June 14, 1891
    riding saddles: W. D. Davis; October 6, 1895
    rolling pin: John W. Reed; 1864
    shampoo headrest: C. O. Bailiff; October 11, 1898
    spark plug: Edmond Berger; February 2, 1839
    stethoscope: Imhotep; Ancient Egypt
    stove: T. A. Carrington; July 25, 1876
    straightening comb: Madam C. J. Walker; Approx 1905
    street sweeper: Charles B. Brooks; March 17, 1890
    phone transmitter: Granville T. Woods; December 2, 1884
    thermostat control: Frederick M. Jones; February 23, 1960
    traffic light: Garrett Morgan; November 20, 1923
    tricycle: M. A. Cherry; May 6, 1886
    typewriter: Burridge & Marshman; April 7, 1885

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I worked as a public school teacher.

The biggest thing holding back blacks is the entitlement mentality that teaches them things like academic achievement and working for pay are "white culture," and they don't have to subject themselves to this foreign, alien culture. They are taught from birth that being black means being entitled to kick back and use the social safety net as a hammock. They are taught from birth to wallow in angry self pity over things that happened 100 years ago, which were done by people who aren't even alive anymore.

Black students ostracize and shun their black classmates who demonstrate any kind of academic ability. They use peer pressure to keep each other uneducated and unqualified for any kind of employment.

Blacks cause their own problems.

But somehow blacks still deserve some kind of revenge and reparations for things that happened before any living person was even born.

? · Answer

Boy do I agree with you! I also agree that people have to get past the Bush thing. I was never a huge fan of his at all yet I am really against what Obama has been trying to do. This apology thing is especially infuriating. I think ALL countries have contributed to the alleged global warming thing, if such a thing even exists. I still cannot wrap my head around it. I live in an area that was once covered by glaciers. Today, I was running air conditioning. Records going back to the early 1800s for my are show temperatures as high, if not higher than today. In those times, it was before the internal combustion engines that are supposedly responsible for a great deal of this global warming thing. I do agree that we all, in the US and everywhere on the earth have to improve what we are doing to take care of mother earth, but I am not on board to think that we have caused this and in particular that we in the US are any more responsible than any other country. I am proud to be American and do not feel we should apologize for anything at all. I'm sick of it and embarrassed because of it.

Anonymous · Answer

Because blacks didn't really invent those things, it's an embellishment.

-sure they received a patent on improvements or modifications but they did not invent those things. You could get a patent if you designed rubber feet that keep a chairs legs from scratching the floor. That doesn't mean you invented the chair.

That's what those blackumentaries are trying to imply and its a blatant lie.

Anonymous · Answer

You might want to add that thousands were at Valley Forge. Yes, they bled and died to establish this country & to gain their own freedom. There's reason to believe that Jefferson was at least part black, on his mothers side.Thousands more fought in the Civil War. Both sides. General Beauregard was an excellent officer, wealthy, and BLACK.

Anonymous · Answer

Because the race baiters like Jackson and Sharpton only survive if there is racial tension. They do their best to stir people up so the money keeps rolling in.

If African-Americans were to stop listening to the clowns and started focusing on the people on your list while trying to emulate them they would be so much better off.

YB Logical · Answer

Notice how every one of the inventions on your list predates the time when liberals decided that Blacks needed their help.

Sweet Sarah · Answer

What is the name of one school , with a link to proof, that teaches, "We are put down and can't accomplish anything because of the whites?"    ust name one school that does that. That is just your silly opinion and you use later facts to true to bolster the silly first part of your statement.

? · Answer

Rap music has set them back 20 years.

Anonymous · Answer

Don't forget cornrows and 'do rags.

Anonymous · Answer

they don't teach that at school though.

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