The producer of the video embedded below is looking at a video by "Elle" who wanted to illustrate how much of our modern world depend on contributions by black Americans by focusing on their important inventions. The problem is that Elle's presentation is full of mistakes, falsehoods, and exaggerations. Most of the products she attributes to blacks weren't actually invented by blacks; or if they had patents for certain inventions, they were not those that led to the modern products. (E.g., a black inventor that invented a type of clothes dryer, but not the tumble dryer that most of us use; or a black inventor to whom is attributed the invention of the mailbox--except, he wasn't the first to invent a mailbox, and it was not his mailbox that is used by the post office). As I've noted before, much like their master, Liberals are liars from the beginning.
The following is a quote by "Tom Shelly" from his online article "Black Invention Myths" which is worth searching out and reading. Here are a few paragraphs from the beginning of the article: "Perhaps you've heard the claims: Were it not for the genius and energy of African-American inventors, we might find ourselves in a world without traffic lights, peanut butter, blood banks, light bulb filaments, and a vast number of other things we now take for granted but could hardly imagine life without.
ReplyDeleteSuch beliefs usually originate in books or articles about black history. Since many of the authors have little interest in the history of technology outside of advertising black contributions to it, their stories tend to be fraught with misunderstandings, wishful thinking, or fanciful embellishments with no historical basis. The lack of historical perspective leads to extravagant overestimation of originality and importance: sometimes a slightly modified version of a pre-existing piece of technology is mistaken for the first invention of its type; sometimes a patent or innovation with little or no lasting value is portrayed as a major advance, even if there's no real evidence it was ever used.
Unfortunately, some of the errors and exaggerations have acquired an illusion of credibility by repetition in mainstream outlets, especially during Black History Month (see examples for the traffic light and ironing board). When myths go unchallenged for too long, they begin to eclipse the truth."
Thanks for the recommendation. I checked it out and read the first several topics/inventions. It looks like something useful to print up and keep on hand. For other readers, the web address is: https://www.blackinventionmyths.com
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