What are some great inventions or discoveries done by black people?
"Dr. Philip Emeagwali Inventor of the World's Fastest Computer. Emeagwali used 65,000 processors to invent the world's fastest computer, which performs computations at 3.1 billion calculations per second.Dr. Philip Emeagwali's resume is loaded with many other such feats, including ways of making oil fields more productive – which has resulted in the United States saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year. As one of the most famous African-American inventors of the 20th century, Dr. Emeagwali also has won the Gordon Bell Prize – the Nobel Prize for computation. His computers are currently being used to forecast the weather and to predict the likelihood and effects of future global warming.""Dr. Mark Dean started working at IBM in 1980 and was instrumental in the invention of the Personal Computer (PC). He holds three of IBM's original nine PC patents and currently holds more than 20 total patents. The famous African-American inventor never thought the work he was doing would end up being so useful to the world, but he has helped IBM make instrumental changes in areas ranging from the research and application of systems technology circuits to operating environments. One of his most recent computer inventions occurred while leading the team that produced the 1-Gigahertz chip, which contains one million transistors and has nearly limitless potential."Dr. Marc Hannah "Honored for his innovative insight, Hannah is Co-founder of Silicon Graphics, international market leader in 3-D computer graphics. He was chief architect of the Personal IRIS, Indigo, Indigo2, and Indy graphics subsystems. The company's revolutionary workstations were used to create the special effects in movies seen by millions of people, including Jurassic Parkand Terminator 2.""In 2010, BERTIN NAHUM, created ROSA, a robot that helps surgeons performs brain surgery. This invention, used in hospital around the world, made him the 4TH most revolutionary high-tech entrepreneurs in the world; after Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and James Cameron! He is also the CEO of Medtech, a French company which specialize in robotic surgical assistance."
Can you name some inventions by white people?
US Constitution Democracy Republic Fascism Communism Liberalism Geography Telescope Microscope Automobile Television Electricity Aircrafts Computers The Piano Electric Engineering Telephone Theory of Evolution The Wormhole First one's in Space First one's on the Moon Banks/Banking The theory of Natural Selection Theatre Pencil The Jet Engine The discovery of DNA The discovery of the Atom The discovery of Cells The Camera
Is it true a black person invented peanut butter?
Yes it is. Not only peanut butter but the wheel barrow and the box lunch.
Are black people really the first ones to invent the car and the white people stole the idea?
The ancient Greeks had a sort of toy that was composed of a spherical container for water that had two steam vents pointed so they both spun the vessel in the same direction when a fire was built right underneath it. That was the basic invention of the steam engine.The difference between a cart and a car is whether it is made to move by a draft animal or made to move by a steam engine, internal combusion engine, electric motor, etc.The first motor driven methods of transportation were crude and appeared about as soon as the general idea for them got around to places that had the craftsmen who cold make the required parts out of metal.As a kid I had a little metal boat that you fed some fuel. It would boil water and push it out the stern, so you had a jet propelled boat. Maybe somebody made that as the first motorized vehicle. Ships are easier to motorize when you are talking about things like regular steam engines.As for who made the first engine-propelled cart, who knows? What we do have are books on the origins of technology. Joseph Needham made a lifetime career of chronicling the technical developments of the Chinese.Did the source that said that somebody in Africa had the first car? What was it like? When was it first produced. Are the extant items of this sort?EDIT: I just saw the link to the video. It was very faint on my computer screen. Your video has nothing to do with the invention of the automobile.
Did black people really invent all of this?
My teacher, who is black, gave us a handout, that she made, that had a list of 101 inventions made by african americans. Some of them sounded completely bogus. Ill name a few: The Alphabet Shoes Helicopters Light Bulb Cell phones Street Sweepers Hair brush Coffee Curling iron Key chain Now some of those i know cant be real (eddison wasnt black!)
If black people had invented rock and roll, why does it sound like a medieval European music?
You must be confusing Rock and Roll with Progressive Rock. The two share the word “Rock” that’s all they have in common.True Rock And Roll was pretty much a product of American Blacks and was essentially 12 bar blues based. Artists like Little Richard,Fats Domino and Chuck Berry,were the pioneers. The more watered down version was Rockabilly,which was artists like Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Basically it was still Rock And Roll, just a white version of it.True Rock And Roll only lasted a few years, the music that followed like the Phil Spector pop, Motown and the brill Building, had little to do with Rock And Roll, they were basically the modern version of tin pan alley. The British invasion groups were also like this.In the late 60’s a number of groups like Jethro Tull and Renaissance used medieval instruments. This kind of music was called progressive rock, but it wasn’t Rock And Roll.I hope that answers your question.
Who invented the name African American?
African-American isn't a name or an invention.The social label was coined since there 1700’s by no one person as far as I'm aware. It was used by various folks and in a variety of forms. For instance:Afro-American in Canada relating to the freemen's publication.Aframerican in relation to the Negro Press.Africo-American in the abolitionists and colonization societies.African-American revisited via black teachers association. Even though, I think most who don't delve into the origin of the social label will wrongly credit Jesse Jackson. Thus, maligning the use of the term because of misconception of and association with Jackson's image, good or bad. Truth, what to call themselves has been a question for African-Americans or black people since their migration to the country.Black people or the Negro, also centuries old, that included people who weren't “white” (essentially). From Negro came the n-word that so many Americans love to use or seek social permission to use because the “blacks call one another the word.” An argument similar to the myth “Africans enslaved their own.”To the question, who invented the social label, African-American — it was truly a creation for North America, coming from the social thinking of black and non-black people. The concept of an African born and reared in America intertwining African and non-African ideals has been an evolving notion — that's the best explanation.
How would you respond to a racist person who asks you "name one thing black people invented"?
Most of the time, i would ignore them.Or maybe i would laugh and say, “you’re pretty stupid, aren’t you?”Black folks need to resist the attempts to bully us into doing the intellectual labor of of lazy, casual bigots. It is impossible to simultaneously fight/work for the advancement of Black people AND act as educators of lazy people who don’t want to bother doing a little research into Black history.As for the truly determined racists and white supremacists, it is simply a waste of time to try and change their minds. No matter how many facts you cite, it will never change their minds.Besides, since neither Black history nor the advancement of Black folks really matter to these kinds of people, whether they be casually or virulently racist: any facts you cite will only be a form of trivial entertainment to them or otherwise more information for them to twist to suit their anti-Black agenda. Black achievements are really not that important to them in the first place, so disproving their racist assumptions is a waste of time.We should not set up Black achievements as frivolous trivia for the edu-tainment of fair-weather white allies or as additional fodder for racists’ anti-Black propaganda.If they actually listen, it will make virtually no impact on how they move through the world. It will pass through their minds as a fleeting factoid.If they refuse to listen, it will have made any difference whatsoever.However, it is NEVER a waste of time to inform other Black people about the inventions and achievements of their ancestors.The more time we try to educate white people and racists, the less time we have to dedicate to generating consciousness amongst ourselves and passing history on to our children.