This is a common one, now being taught in schools and even hustled on local news shows during February.
Myth: Garret A. Morgan, an African-American, invented the traffic light in 1923.
False! Over fifty people had already filed patents for traffic lights in the US before Morgan. The modern, three light, automated traffic lights were already in [...]
SURPRISE! Slavery still thrives in Africa (and Haiti as well.)
In this Frontline Segment Northern Sudanese Muslims enslave non-Muslims in the south. While Front-line describes the northerners as “Arabs” they are actually of mostly Negro ancestry themselves. The Muslims with tiny amounts of Arab ancestry enslave the full blooded Negroes. As you see in the video, [...]
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 [...]
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The alleged “Massacre at Fort Pillow” was nothing more than election propaganda to ensure that Abraham Lincoln wasn’t defeated in the bitter election of 1864.
Photo Right: Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. One of the most inventive and successful Generals in world history. Today Forrest is studied in military academies worldwide. Both Gen. Patton [...]
The claim that black people invented Tango dancing is just as absurd as the claims that “black people invented refrigerators and cell phones.” However, while invention claims are easily debunked with patent dates, debunking a claim about a cultural phenomenon is a little more complicated. For whatever reason, fewer people are challenging the Tango claim, [...]
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Now that it has been admitted in many mainstream news sources that a George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter, that myth seems to have been replaced by a new myth. The new myth states that a black man invented ice cream in 1832 while working at a Philadelphia candy store.
The myth [...]
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It’s February. Once again public schools, libraries, and even your local media are promoting fallacies in the name of “black history.” Many of the “black history” falsehoods include various inventions attributed to blacks. These bogus claims amout to the theft of recognition and attribution from genuine white inventors.
Myth of the day :Thomas Elkin, a Black Man, invented the Refrigerator in [...]
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It’s February. Once again public schools, public libraries, and even your local media are promoting fallacies in the name of “black history.” False black “history” concerning alleged inventions by blacks are tantamount to defamation against the actual inventors.
George Washington Carver and Peanut Butter. George Washington Carver was a black scientist at Tuskegee College in [...]
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Dr. Henry T. Sampson and Dr. George H. Miley (both pictured at right), are two engineering professor teaching in Illinois. Though it looks like Sampson has since retired from teaching and now writes books on the history of blacks in theater and movies. In 1971 they jointly obtained a patent for their own [...]
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Photo Right: Frederick Jones was a mulatto who co-founded Thermo King with Joseph Numero (a white man). He took out 22 patents primarily related to refrigeration. This might put him among the most accomplished engineers to have Negro ancestry. However, he did not invent the air conditioner.
According to Afro-mythologists, Frederick McKinley Jones invented [...]
