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To: PROCON

Thank you, George Washington Carver.

Funny how blacks who actually make real contributions never seem to get mentioned during “Black History Month.”


3 posted on 12/20/2014 3:21:05 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Never seem to get streets named after them, either.


16 posted on 12/20/2014 3:26:12 PM PST by 9thLife
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To: dfwgator

GWC has a math building named after him on the campus of Iowa State University, his alma mater.


44 posted on 12/20/2014 3:45:11 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: dfwgator

I did my one and only “Black History Month” report on George Washington Carver many, many years ago.

He was an amazing person.

I was told years late, by a friend who was pretty much a liberal with sanity that in many countries there are statues of Carver, because he contributed so much to people NOT STARVING TO DEATH, but here he’s overlooked, because he didn’t toe the racial grievance line.


58 posted on 12/20/2014 3:53:22 PM PST by jocon307
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To: dfwgator

What about Orenthal?


98 posted on 12/20/2014 4:47:02 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: dfwgator

That’s true. He actually prayed to God to show him what to do with the peanut.


135 posted on 12/20/2014 9:27:18 PM PST by gattaca ("To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJ))
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To: dfwgator

You do know that he had nothing to do with peanut butter, right?


147 posted on 12/21/2014 4:29:12 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: dfwgator
Sorry, George Washington Carver had nothing to do with Peanut Butter.

Canadian Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec was the first to patent peanut butter, in 1884.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

153 posted on 12/28/2014 7:12:18 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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