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“A black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Tom Edison” — Biden
twitter ^ | 09/03'20

Posted on 09/03/2020 6:36:57 PM PDT by dontreadthis

Lewis Latimer, the black inventor Biden’s presumably referring to, is credited with creating an improved filament — as well as successfully testifying that Edison’s patents on the first practical lightbulbs were correctly granted.


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To: reg45

Probably. But Biden is so sunk in dementia you really can’t call it treason. Somebody just take this fool off to a dignified but obscure retirement.


121 posted on 09/03/2020 7:56:15 PM PDT by livius
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To: dontreadthis

Uh he said more than that he also said they burned black wall street down to the ground. This guy is string to stoke racial tensions he certainly not trying to heal Kenosha. This guy is evil just like Obama .


122 posted on 09/03/2020 7:58:08 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Dr. Sivana

Well then that was one of the products they did not make better...


123 posted on 09/03/2020 7:58:44 PM PDT by Herosmith ("Hindsight alone is not wisdom, And second-guessing is not a strategy." - GWB)
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To: mylife

Yes. You can say he perfected it...meaning he stole the idea from an Italian guy, who probably had dark skin, and made it work with the right ingredients.


124 posted on 09/03/2020 8:00:11 PM PDT by gr8eman (Stupid should hurt! Treason should hurt more!)
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To: mylife

Yes. You can say he perfected it...meaning he stole the idea from an Italian guy, who probably had dark skin, and made it work with the right ingredients.


125 posted on 09/03/2020 8:00:11 PM PDT by gr8eman (Stupid should hurt! Treason should hurt more!)
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To: dontreadthis

Africans are the source of everything good. That’s why today the most advanced, safe, wealthy and healthy continent is Africa.


126 posted on 09/03/2020 8:02:59 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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To: Repent and Believe

Did negroes invent black lights?


127 posted on 09/03/2020 8:03:04 PM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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To: Rinnwald

I feel your pain.. They’re in the top 5 for sure.


128 posted on 09/03/2020 8:03:35 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: qam1

Actually, no. She refers to Grandmaster Flash in that song, so that in itself says it wasn’t. Although it certainly was likely the first bonifide hit in the US including rap

But even so, that was preceded by Falco in Europe who wrote “Der Kommisar” which was a hit for him in Europe.

I’m no big historian on music but I’ve seen enough to look at Falco as the creator. At least, the creator of hits with rapping.


129 posted on 09/03/2020 8:04:06 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: cdcdawg

I always thought that. I know that I became a paralegal in Virginia with out any degree. I was 20. Long time ago. I quit that job to pursue other things, but I found it easy and fun but didn’t really like the people we were defending.

Only used the craft personally, never lost a case. Even against my ex wife.

I should look into taking the bar. lol


130 posted on 09/03/2020 8:04:14 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (#wwg1wga #Godwins)
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To: Durus

Yeah in looking it up, Edison and his team get pretty universal credit for inventing and patenting the light bulb.


131 posted on 09/03/2020 8:04:39 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Trillian

C’mon, man!

He’s the party of the light thing!


132 posted on 09/03/2020 8:04:43 PM PDT by Salamander (The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Yeah how did the statement that a guy who uses a shovel can naturally learn computer code, even make any sense?

Picture the coal workers lining up in Silicon Valley and being snapped up based on their shoveling ability.


133 posted on 09/03/2020 8:09:01 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: dontreadthis

Somebody should tell Biden that Jesus was black and invented Christianity and the bible, and was the original Black Life that Mattered.


134 posted on 09/03/2020 8:09:54 PM PDT by adorno
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To: wildcard_redneck

“It is just sad to try to rewrite history.”

That’s just what they do no matter what country they are in,


135 posted on 09/03/2020 8:11:05 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: dontreadthis

Google ‘American Inventors’.


136 posted on 09/03/2020 8:12:41 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Clarancebeaks

“Did negroes invent black lights?”

No, but funny you should ask...

http://blackinventor.com/george-carruthers/

I’ll bet that guy had to endure “black light” jokes his entire career!

A really important invention listed on that site is the train coupler. Before that, coupling/decoupling cars was a very dangerous job. Your career was over when you got killed or lost both of your hands/arms, whichever came first!


137 posted on 09/03/2020 8:22:15 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: adorno

That’s right... Jesus was a dark skinned Jew. A carpenter by trade he learned from his “step” father. As to African-— probably not. Definitely Semitic.


138 posted on 09/03/2020 8:25:15 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Williams

“Picture the coal workers lining up in Silicon Valley and being snapped up based on their shoveling ability”

Oddly enough, I have found during the course of my career that computer programmers and IT employees are extremely good at shoveling...so there might actually be something to this.


139 posted on 09/03/2020 8:26:46 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: mylife

Edison was a notorious rip off artist


Did he rip off anything that wasn’t developed in his lab? I imagine everyone who worked for him signed away all rights to anything they worked on there. I realize he was a ruthless businessman and probably wasn’t a great guy for a creative type to work for.

On the other hand he apparently did hire black men to work for him at his lab—not just sweeping floors, either.


140 posted on 09/03/2020 8:31:18 PM PDT by hanamizu
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