Once you start celebrating "black contributions," you have automatically tainted them as not being good enough to be considered "great contributions" on their own. It's like the Grammys having a "Christian music" category. Oh, so Christian music isn't good enough to ever win a Grammy on its own, huh?
“It’s like the Grammys having a “Christian music” category. Oh, so Christian music isn’t good enough to ever win a Grammy on its own, huh? “
Maybe we should ban Christian music for 100 years and see how good it is after that,.
they weren’t that significant.
That sentence says more about you than anything else you’ve said. I challenge you to widen your knowledge. Here are just a micro-fraction of black contributions to American history:
Charles Drew (1904 - 1950) discovered techniques to store blood and developed blood banks.
Lewis Howard Latimer invented the carbon filament for light bulbs in 1881.
Alexander Miles of Duluth, Minnesota patented an electric elevator in 1887 with automatic doors that would close off the shaft way, thus making elevators safer.
Henry (”Hank”) Aaron (1934 - ) broke Babe Ruth’s home run record when he hit his 715th home run in 1974. He set a Major League record with 755 home runs in his career.
Crispus Attucks was one of more than 5,000 Blacks, who fought for independence during the American Revolutionary War up until it ended with British General Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.
The first African American COMBAT FIGHTER PILOTS, the TUSKEGEE AIRMEN of the 99TH PURSUIT SQUADRON