Black Invention Myths – Black History Month Special
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.
Such 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 overestimations 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.
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Noch zwarten, noch moslims hebben ook maar iets bijgedragen aan technologische vindingen. Lieden die dat ontkennen zijn politiek-correcte leugenaars.
Door een gril van het lot zijn het juist diegenen die nooit iets hebben bijgedragen aan technologie die eeuwig met een smartphone rondlopen en daarmee omgaan of ze de wijsheid in pacht hebben. Een slagroomklopper is echter al te hoog gegrepen voor deze halfapen.
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