African American invention and how they advance America

be difficult for people to prove intellectual inferiority that's why even in our textbooks in school they don't like to teach our children about black inventions because even greater than our African history or our American inventions because from nowhere you're coming up with things that revolutionize the American social and economic order well basically there is a proverb that says that the only thing that peoples of European descent ever created was the Patent Office because they stole everybody else's ideas and put their name on it Dornan slavery because you were the property of your master a lot of what we invented was automatically giving credit to the master the credit was forwarded to the master because we was property we weren't allowed to take fame or notoriety for the things we created anything that made work easier why would white people want to invent something that make work easier when they have black folks to do it you have a huge incentive to try to get things to move smoothly so that you know you don't get any more lashes you know or somebody doesn't now have to sell someone else in your family you know you know there are there's a lot of incentive to create create invention and that's another thing most of our black inventors had to deal with idea theft white folks would come in and say we did it first because we didn't necessarily know the process we'll have the money to patent our inventions so white folk will find out what a black person invented and go do it real fast and get their application in because back then the process wasn't as thorough as it is now whoever got their application in first to the Patent Office bets who got the patent so we got thousands of inventions by black people we'll never even know it because of the fact that they were stolen they don't want anyone to know that we invented things so if you if it wasn't for black people white people couldn't take a dump the black man invented the toilet and he just made it white on purpose a slave by the name of black Sam Eli Whitney slave created the idea for the cotton gene and his master patented in his own name how could he do that with no benefit of books he wasn't even loud to learn a lot of people assume just because African slaves were illiterate they were ignorant and there's a real big difference because African people they had a very elaborate language of our elaborate languages over in Africa when Africans were brought over here they were taught a bastardized version of English and they weren't even allowed to see though the language written down and they were taught the language by lower-class Europeans who were living in the south so even though there was that major obstacle black still did phenomenal things Thomas Edison was known for stealing people's inventions he was known for taking the inventions of a few African American inventors Lewis Latimer Granville T Woods actually went to court with Thomas Edison and Granville T Woods actually won his case Thomas Edison tried to bring grand fool t woods to court on that invention and I just saw a commercial for Mazda I believe cars but he said here's a man holding a thousand patents well 90% of them he stole Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison who are probably considered America's two greatest inventors of all time but guess who was designing their blueprints for the patent application a black man now let's think about this for a minute if you invent something why do you need me to do the blueprints for the patent application if it's your idea how in the hell can I do the blueprints for it you can't do the blueprints for my idea I have to do it so if a Latimer is doing the blueprints if he is your chief draftsman and he's doing your blueprints for your patent application Alexander Graham Bell did you invent the telephone or did Lewis Latimer invent the telephone Thomas Edison had a whole troop of people that was in his sweat shop and depending on the invention he would hand it over to that particular department and tell them see what it is that that does and then do something a little different and we'll patent that and when they took when he took Granville T woods information and tried to make it his own the court said no the watermelon and black people stereotype that came and that was popularized by Thomas Edison um around 1890 Thomas Edison put together this nickelodeon reel and there were these african-american men who were joking around shucking and jiving and kind of mugging for the camera and they were eating watermelon and Edison film this put this out and the general public saw this and they said okay african-american people must really love watermelon and right after that film came out thousands of postcards and all types of memorabilia flooded the market of african-american people eating watermelon so that watermelon stereotype was popularized by Thomas Edison a lot of people don't know there's an african-american male who is significant has pens on the first major computer ships that made computers operate other inventors that we don't know about essentially who they call the father of the internet was Philip II met Wally a Nigerian man who essentially created the connection for quantum bits of information so that multiple computers could actually communicate with one another during slavery and this is well documented by white people many of the Masters when they were sick did not call for the physician they call for the Big Mama on the plantation and she would come with her medicine bag they didn't have alcohol in rump they had all types of things that she made from the herbs that she had plenty some of them said I don't want the doctor bring me the witch doctor that voo-doom woman who I own Africans took what they brought from Africa which would be a ground hockey and all they did apply the game to ice when the British were fighting the United States there were African slaves of former slaves assisting the British in fighting the US when the US one in the Britons lost many of the African Americans sent to British colonies in West Africa and many of the African Americans were sent into Nova Scotia Canada and they formed what we now know as hockey they started to play this new game called hockey which was something that Africans were doing in Africa and ancient Kemet there was a form of field hockey that they were playing and they went into Canada and they created what we now know as hockey and they were actually black Canadian hockey teams in the early sport of hockey that a lot of people don't know about and there's a great book about that called black eyes that talks about the early inventors of hockey who were men of African descent the baddest cowboy black or white this man was so bad that they called him the invincible one just to say that there was nobody badder than this man in the West and that's been co-signed the brother's name is bass Reeves now bass Reeves was a former slave who pretty much beat up on his master to get away when we think of runaway African slaves we always think of the Africans sneaking away in the middle of the night hiding ducking and dodging behind trees hiding in bushes hiding in rivers bass Reeves decided he was not gonna be a slave anymore and not only was he not gonna be a slave he told his master I'm gonna beat you up before I leave so he beat up his master escaped and got away and went into Oklahoma which was like an outlaw territory so he actually got away and became very prominent in the Old West when they began to open up the Oklahoma Territory they needed to recruit people and they recruited him because he knew the creeks language he know the Muscogee he knew how to speak the Seminole language he knew all of the natives of the of the area and he sat with them to learn about their traditions the real life of this black man bass Reeves became the mythic legends of Hollywood white cowboys he brought in 3,000 countable 3,000 bad guys I'm talking about the worst murderers he got 3,000 of them killed 14 all of who the Lone Ranger became when you saw him on TV was actually the life of bass Reeves African people in many ways the Underground Railroad established African people moving west and establishing places to be able to protect them and so in the study in the research of the Underground Railroad you will find that there are African African American communities that were established and have been there from before people can actually talk about it historically many people don't realize that African American people founded and settled in many cities around the country Buffalo New York was founded by a black man they called him black Joe Hodges many african-american people had a less volatile relationship with the Native Americans a lot of the European settlers they were beefing with the Native Americans so they couldn't go into certain areas and peacefully but a lot of African American settlers would go in there and they had somewhat of a camaraderie with the Native American people in Los Angeles 44 African American families came to Los Angeles and found in Los Angeles the governor of what was then known as Alta California which is now the state of California the governor was a man of African descent named Pio Pico and there's a street out here in Los Angeles called Pico Boulevard named after him you had an african-american woman named Biddy Mason who was a very wealthy landowner in early Los Angeles so african-american people were very prominent in founding many cities around America Chicago was a city founded by Jean Baptiste point DuSable a brother of Haitian background coming up through and and founding this city in Chicago because that is what the indigenous people called it in this part of Illinois now Seneca Village really is a misnomer for for Senegal village seneca village was a community in new york city that was purchased by freed africans when the enslavement of African people was abolished in 1827 Senegal village became a meeting place for African people in general the backstory it is believed that Senegal village became part of the underground railroad for African peoples starting in 1855 you're going to have people start to call it a shanty town where people who are squatters they're gonna demean the importance of senegal village god's ABC see all these african people moving up in here and there squatters they don't belong there and we need to create a park and so they begin to put themselves upon the people finally the mayor signs that edicts a eminent domain you've got to get out and so by 1857 the last Africans were forcibly removed from their homes what's interesting about Central Park it was once an african-american community Seneca village and now there's an ancient African monument there's an obelisk in Central Park right now that's from ancient Africa from ancient Kimon and a lot of people don't even realize it's there a lot of people think that the enslavement of African people was only down south that's not true the largest plantation in the 13 colonies at one point in history was in Brooklyn New York and you know that area down there down by Battery Park where they they just to bring the ships into that area the port and they would dock the ships and they would bring the Africans up out the ships and they would walk them across to be sold however what they did was because they couldn't free our cell all of them they used to put them in different prisons along this particular path and then they would March the Africans that they were ready to sell down the street down a street called Wall Street down into a place we today called the New York Stock Exchange African people were the first stocks and bonds sold on the stock exchange there's a movie by Bruce Willis that will show you the prisons that are underground the Stock Exchange building by Lee Jones was a former african-american slave who went into Arkansas he stacked his money up and he became a railroad owner he owned a railroad system and the city of Pine Bluff Arkansas ended up buying his railroad system and that system is still owned by Pine Bluff right now the Patterson car company was a car company founded by former slaves African American men and the Patterson car company was the first African American car manufacturer in the country one of the I think the only manufacturer in the country and what's interesting about the Patterson car company it was in Ohio their cars were considered higher quality than the Model T cars that Henry Ford had he knew very brothers Ford him stolen that's why all over the world for it never gets credit for him getting a car he gets credit for mass production the cars began coming off the assembly line at the rate of one every 40 seconds until that do you take one call and put it together and put it together where'd he get that from George Washington Carver George Washington Carver was never around black box till he went to Tuskegee the mother and father died or was killed a white family adopted him from our you know black folks in our except football players hmm so he went to grade school high school didn't handle cigarettes didn't have enough people hmm so now George Washington Carver leaves have to get all this ice gave him out there he goes to Tuskegee Henry Ford came down to like you always see this friend there should be default before I got something here study plants see if you take this back and give you to your engineers they can build more than one car at a time you took it back mass production all over the world is called the plant right everybody made joke of him because they said well you know but the plants are talking to it you know is this I always get these these these properties of these plants and George Washington Carver in his quiet dignified way said well who told me I'm not saying that they talked to me like they got a talk but I can look at a plant and see what it can do for the human family the military came to George Washington Carver and they said we need you to do something for us can you invent something that out of it we can get paint blue ink and plastic yeah they tell me how some more black vote on it so he came back oh sorry now you wanna hear something funny the number one cancer group in America vegetarians when he got to Tuskegee they thought he was gay no association with women high-pitched voice they thought it was gay the finest Jews we've been able to make a peanut is in the treatment of the after-effects of infantile paralysis he's rather for you to believe he was gay didn't tell you that them white folk that adopted him castrated him so he couldn't have sex with a dog who wanted you see King Kong New York's idiom in past a villain that's about Jack Johnson in white ladies why would it go will the gold New York we ain't got no bananas Lord no he no trees why did they go there the boxing capital of the world is Madison Square Garden if you don't know how to break it on you don't think it rolling the paper pike we have to understand that in our celebration of Jack Johnson and that one-on-one Matt mano-a-mano man this is you and me and this is what we go and deal with there were lynchings the day after every fight and that's very important to understand as it relates to the psychology he used to love to drive he's loved the speed and he'd be speeding someplace and the police would stop him and because they thought he was a person of African descent because they sort of caught it he was driving some may have known he was but they said well what does man good doing with this car they would find him they say okay we're gonna give you a ticket for speeding he's five hundred dollar ticket five hundred dollars for speeding back then story has it he'd give him a thousand dollars he said cuz I'm speeding back in the sport of boxing there has always been a need for the great white hope in boxing since there could not be one in real life Hollywood just created one and that's what the Rocky movies were about they were giving out the awards in Rocky one okay - Oscar and Muhammad Ali came out and he was the one that gave Sylvester Stallone the award and Ali in his most powerful way came out said you know that story was about me he said you know that was about me you know that you all dream about beating a black man he said but you know what the only place you'll ever do it is in the house

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Published: Mon Sep 07 2015