Black Inventors Are Often Overlooked In American History

Townhall.com ^ | February 25, 2021 | Ken Blackwell

[2banana]

So...merit, accomplishments and hard work.

And using math.

Sounds like they were acting white.

[BobL]

I still remember growing up and having to endure some black inventor who found all these uses for a peanut - even though, to this day, all I ever did was eat them.

[Sacajaweau]

Thousands of white inventors are ignored, too.

Al Gore is possibly the greatest inventor with his invention of the internet.

[albie]

Anybody who invented something worth inventing has been recognized.

[cymbeline]

The way most of us contribute to America’s success is just to be good hard working people. No culture or race is properly judged by focusing on its high performing and famous individuals.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"Morgan used his gas mask to save two trapped workers from a collapsed tunnel in Ohio. Unfortunately, the public rejected his heroism because he was black, and he was denied several awards he richly deserved."

I doubt that completely.

[HighSierra5]

Yeah. If this country was so racist,blacks would have had their inventions stolen or denied. Not to say that didn’t happen. Might even happen to a white person.

[LouAvul]

Thousands of African American inventors have transformed America

And millions of thuggish blax have undone the accomplishments of their predecessors.

I don't care what you did in ancient history. What you're doing now is all that matters.

[Vermont Lt]

During BHM if an alien came to Earth they would ask how so few white people were able to suppress the black majority for centuries.

We have 3 days left.

The bad news is March is Women”s month. //sarcasm.

[no-to-illegals]

? Should the word invention be scrapped and discovery be the replacement word ?

[FreeReign]

American black inventors being overlooked?
Geez, not if one does a google search on American inventors. Pretty much all they show are black inventors.

[cuban leaf]

Many of these innovative geniuses are unknown today...

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That’s not because they’re black. It’s because they were not the “front man”.

Name one Pip. Name one Supreme other than Diana Ross.

[Fresh Wind]

Dr. Croak?

[cuban leaf]

Good catch. Post of the day.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Good science is its own reward.

That’s why the modern black culture ignores it for things such as athletic achievement and philosophical meanderings that pander to an altered black experience.

It pays better.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Geez, not if one does a google search on American inventors. Pretty much all they show are black inventors.

At first I thought you were exaggerating, so I took a look, and guess what? You were right.

[ml/nj]

Ken Blackwell, and anyone else who writes an article like this, is an obvious racist.

ML/NJ

[wildcard_redneck]

On Google search it is impossible to believe that any inventors are white.

[Robert A Cook PE]

My thought as well. Similar for today’s historical revisions and “instant” reverence for that Edison associate who worked inside Edison’s lab on early light bulb testing and development. Can’t honor the head of the lab though - that would be “white privilege” to today’s racists.