08
Feb
Black History Month Myth of the Day: A black man invented the dustpan.
Here is one that I actually heard on my local news. “A black man,Lloyd P. Ray, invented the dust pan.”
Well, the dust pan isn’t as glamorous as saying a “black man invented the cell phone,” but just as absurd.
First Ray is less than half black. In 1897 Ray took out a patent for a dust pan he designed. This was dust pan patent number 165!
One hundred sixty four Americans had already taken out patents for their own dust pans before Ray.
The actual inventor of the original dust pan is unknown and probably lived thousands of years ago.
Patriotic Flags - New Minuteman Flag
Only $10 with free postage, for a limited time only.
Return to Front Page
Views and opinions are not necessarily those of the Council of Conservative Citizens.