[Warren]

"after they spend all the money on booze and drugs?"
Well, you know, each race has their own talents they bring to civilization.
Some work hard to invent wonderful things to enrich our lives, and then some others. . . . .

[Sonny M]

Who was the famous african american scholar who basically ripped africa by saying that they had not made a significant contribution to civilization on over a thousand years? He pointed out that almost every black achievment had been made by blacks in europe and america. He was somewhat of a african empowerment movement who felt that africa had let down its people, by both being conquered and then enslaving its own people and selling them to "unknown foreign white folk" something no other civilzation had ever done. Previousley, you made slaves and kept them within your own people. I know he wrote a book, and was on the lecture circuit for awhile and appeared on some shows.

[rdb3]

Well, you know, each race has their own talents they bring to civilization. Some work hard to invent wonderful things to enrich our lives, and then some others. . . . .

Yeah, like the first American built striking clock, the first Farmers' Almanac, the initial layout of Washington, D.C., the rotary engine, the "Jenny Coupler" which was used to hook railcars together, the Gong and Signal Chair for Hotels, a device that allowed amputees to feed themselves, an improved electrical resistor used in computers - radios - television sets and a variety of electronic devices and helped reduce the cost of those products, a variable resistor used in guided missile parts, a control unit for heart stimulators, a burglar-proof cash register, a chemical air filter, the first street sweeper (no, not the gun), the first disposable hypodermic needle (syringe), three hundred uses for peanuts, hundreds of uses for soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes, the far ultraviolet camera spectrograph, the first moon-based space observatory, the detection of bacteria in urine, blood, spinal fluids, drinking water and foods, the microcomputer system with bus control means for peripheral processing devices, the blood bank and preservation of blood, the folding cabinet bed, the conversion of natural gas to electricity for everyday use, the pioneering and initial research of electrogasdynamics, the world's first patent for a golf tee, the invention of processes for preserving meat using sodium chloride and nitrate and nitrite crystals, the pioneering of the use of antioxidants, the dry-cleaning process, the automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks in 1935 (a roof-mounted cooling device), the synthesized physostigmine for treatment of glaucoma and cortisone for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, the patent drawings for Alexander Graham Bell's patent application for the telephone, automatic lubication to solve the problems of engine lubrication and overheating, the first automatic traffic signal, the first gas mask, the improved gas heating furnace that provided central heating, the invention of a sugar processing evaporator and an improved sugar refining process that safely saved time and money in the making of sugar from sugar beets or sugar cane, and many, MANY more.

Oh, wait. I forgot something. These inventions were made by blacks. So much for your assertion...