More than peanut butter, LOL!
"Some African American Inventors
I picked up the essence of this article some years ago. Not sure exactly who wrote the original, but I did research all the names to make sure the information and details are accurate. This article presents the argument that discrimination against African American has no justification based on logic of reason.
As the story goes, a group of white people became angry about African Americans living in the United States, so they joined together and decided wished that African Americans had never been brought to America. After wishing very hard this group of white people found their wish had come true and the United States had never ever had any black people. They breathed a great sigh of relief. " At last", they thought, "no more crime, no more drugs, no more violence, no more welfare. Glory be, no black people!"
Well let us take a look at life in the United States had never been any black people here? For starters there would not even be a United States as we know it. The agricultural economy upon which the English Colonies and United States were founded, was dependent on slave labor supplied by enslaved Africans and their descendants.
There would be no cities with tall skyscrapers in the United States because Alexander Miles, a black man, invented the elevator, and without elevators, one would have great difficulty reaching high higher floors.
Driving cars would be very difficult because Richard Spikes, a black man who invented the automatic transmission and other mechanisms related to automobiles would not have been here.
Joseph Gammel, another black man, invented the supercharger for internal combustion engines. A black man named Garret A. Morgan invented the traffic light . There would be no rapid transit system because its precursor was the electric trolley, invented by a black man named Elbert R. Robinson. Even if there were streets on which cars and a rapid transit system could operate, these streets would be cluttered with debris, because a black man named Charles Brooks invented the street sweeper.
There would be difficulty in school classes because a black man, John Love, invented the pencil sharpener. William Purvis, a black man, invented the fountain pen. Lee Burridge, yet another black man invented the type writing machine.
W.A. Lovette, a black man, invented the advanced printing press. Now even if everyone could write letters, articles and books, they could not be transported by mail because William Barry, a black man, invented the postmarking and canceling machine, William Purvis, a black man, invented the hand stamp and yes, another black man, Philip Downing, invented the letter drop.
Lawns would look awful because Joseph Smith, a black man, invented the lawn sprinkling system and John Burr, a black man, invented the lawn mower. Your homes you would be uncomfortable, poorly ventilated and heated because a black man named Frederick Jones invented the air conditioner and a black woman named Alice Parker invented the heating furnace. Homes would also be filthy because a black man, Thomas W. Stewart, would not have been here to invent the mop and Lloyd P. Ray, a black man, would not have been here to invent the dust pan.
When you return home from work, your children would meet you at the door barefooted and shabbily dressed in unkempt clothing. What could one expect because Jan E. Matzelinger, a blackman, would not have been here to invent the shoe lasting machine, Walter Sammons would not have invented the comb, nor would have Lydia O. Newman have invented the brush, nor would have Sarah Boone have invented the ironing board, nor would have George T. Samon have invented the clothes dryer; all of these people were African Americans.
And how about dinner time? Food would have spoiled because a black man, John Standard, could not have invented the refrigerator; and, there would be no light to eat your spoiled meals because the filament within the light bulb was invented by a black man.
Without black men and women, the United States, if it had managed to come into existence, would just be another under-developed country of the World. With more poverty, more disease, more pain and less commerce; which translates into a much lower standard of living for all U.S. Citizens.
The moral of this fantasy is twofold. African Americans have historically suffered from extreme discrimination and injustice. Since these black people were able to invent and contribute so much under discrimination and injustice, what might some other blacks have contributed if discrimination had never existed?
Edited by Henry Robert Burke"
