CIVILIZATION - AFRICANS

Game over man. You can't explain that.

I saw an article that gave the real truth. As you can guess quite a few claims were downright false and other claims were actually someone who made an improvement on an existing item which is a good thing so why not say that. Very few invention claims were legitimate.

I wouldn’t expect the people who put this out to do any fact checks

Former chess player here.

Chess has its origins in a game from India, called chaturanga.

That being said, it was Britain that refined the game into what we know now, with the last movement rule change happening in the 1400s.

One thing that black people DID invent was the Super Soaker, courtesy of former NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson.

Africans aren't black.

Africans, are in fact, multi-ethnic & multi-racial.

Just because something was invented by an African, it doesn't mean that thing was invented by a black African.

No surprise, it's almost all or entirely bullshit.

Just as an example, I looked up first helicopter, and this was the first thing that popped up. Igor Sikorsky, in 1939. Black man Paul E. Williams was two months old. There was also the Cornu helicopter even earlier in 1907.

As far as I can tell in regards to Williams, he was credited as "inventing" the first "useful" helicopter. Or...uh, "components" of it. Maybe. There's no source as far as I can tell. He worked in the vicinity and time frame of the Lockheed Model 186, while being black. No official mention of him in relation to the helicopter seems to exist.

And most claims come from BlackCultureNews and...and I'm not kidding here, "Africa's Wakanda," a Facebook group. It really does seem to be a case of "a black dude worked at a company at the same time a cool product was produced, therefore he invented everything, trust me bro."

OMG, what is this list?

So, Dr Charles Drew invented...checks notes...blood plasma?! Before that everyone was like, dead? Lol

Shoutout to Joe Jackson for inventing the "video commander" and Lester Lee for inventing "laser fuel". Good stuff guys!

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Succinct but useful.

I'm sure all those Africans invented a game with a fucking Bishop and a Horse, two things that had to be imported into their continent later.

Also they'd probably do a lot better if they didn't get lazy and copy paste the same name for a bunch of inventions that are so far removed from each other's fields that it strains any credibility that someone would be competent in both.

Like in what world is this Morgan guy just casually inventing a fucking gas mask and a traffic signal. Why is he dabbling in both.

Insect destroyer gun

The fuck kind of name is that? 🤔

I'm not going to go down that fucking list but cellular phone one is a lie and JW Smith is actually JH Smith who patented a sprinkler in 1897. This fucking sheet can't even get his name right.

What the fuck is "laser fuels" supposed to be? Are they actually playing the headlight fluid game here?

First of all, Egypt isn't black.

The new one I heard is that the super smart slaves in America were inventing new processes and items, with the slave owners taking the credit.

The thing I hate the most about this bullshit is it actively demeans any actual black accomplishments by lumping them all in with this kind of nonsense.

George Washington Carver did NOT invent Peanut Butter, Paint, and Lotion. But he did create a load of peanut-based products as part of an overarching plan to encourage crop rotations in the US. He did a lot of neat stuff, but you'd never know that looking at this nonsense.

We've seen this kind of revisionist shit in recent history. Remember the black hole discovery that propped up some girl on the team when all she did was basicbitch tasks like code formatting. Somehow that overshadowed the rest of the asian/white male team who did all the real work.

It's current year, the darkies created literally everything, but evil whitey stole it.

Imagining a liberal mind - 2024.

Well... I'm sure Peanut Butter is probably right...

I'm not bothered to go through it all, but last time I saw this, I think the majority of these things were either very much part of a team, outright lies, or patent squatting on an idea already created but altered and then never actually realised.

But this was also years ago that I saw this, so I could be misremembering. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I found this on X the other day rebutting a list very much like the one you posted.

Rotary Engine!?!? I guess Wankel was a fraud. This list is also missing “The Human Race” and “Gravity”

Apparently on the rotary engine it most likely didn’t work in reality, but was still granted a patent. Certainly not as successful of an invention as the paper wants to mislead. It was not actually commercially viable and the Wankel engine is predominantly what anyone will think of when “rotary engine” is used - despite it having several challenges as well.

Biscuit Cutter? Yeah, that is called a tin can.

I can tell you the AC unit was not invented by Fredrick M Jones.

The modern one was likely Willis Carrier. But I'd have to look it up to be sure.

But I mean, before the modern types, there were passive types for centuries. Thin walls inside the larger standard walls, meant to be used as air ducts found in ancient Syrian buildings meant to catch cool moving air and move it around your house.

And before that, they had freestanding chimney-like structures on rooftops meant to catch air on the columns and push it down and move it throughout the house passively collecting and moving air.

Yeah, blacks lie.

For instance: Adoplh Shamms inventing the multi stage rocket, patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US3199455A/en in 1964.

Well that's all fine and dandy, but the first multi stage rockets were invented by the Chinese some time in the twelfth century. The first practical multistage rockets were Korean weapons of war used as Ship to Ship rockets, the Singijeon in the fifteenth century.

By 1551, muitple European arsenals were experimenting with them.

Tsiolkovsky, Goddard, and Oberth, all independently came to the same conclusion with regards to getting to orbit with multi-stage rockets, and all did it before WW2.

In 1949 RTV-G-4 Bumper two stage rockets were launched from White Sands missiles range, and reached an altitude of 393 km.

Asparagus staging was invented as a concept in 1947 by Mikhail Tikhonravov.

Sputnik was launched atop a R-7 two stage rocket in 1957.

The Titan I was the first US multistage ICBM, with it's first successful flight taking place 5 February 1959.

Blacks had nothing to do with the invention of multi-stage rockets. Deport them all from America.

Just off the first few things in the list, and using Wikipedia (yes, yes, I know a terrible source)

Paper:

The first paper-like plant-based writing sheet was papyrus in Egypt, but the first true papermaking process was documented in China during the Eastern Han period (25–220 AD),

Chess:

The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh century India. The rules of chess as they are known today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century.

Alphabets:

The first letters were invented in Ancient Egypt to aid writers already using Egyptian hieroglyphs, now referred to by lexicographers as the Egyptian uniliteral signs.....The first fully phonemic script was the Proto-Sinaitic script, also descending from Egyptian hieroglyphics, which was later modified to create the Phoenician alphabet. The Phoenician system is considered the first true alphabet and is the ultimate ancestor of many modern scripts, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and possibly Brahmic.

Medicine:

The earliest known medical texts in the world were found in the ancient Syrian city of Ebla and date back to 2500 BCE.

Civilization:

The Natufian culture in the Levantine corridor provides the earliest case of a Neolithic Revolution, with the planting of cereal crops attested from c. 11,000 BCE. The earliest neolithic technology and lifestyle were established first in Western Asia (for example at Göbekli Tepe, from about 9,130 BCE), later in the Yellow River and Yangtze basins in China (for example the Peiligang and Pengtoushan cultures), and from these cores spread across Eurasia. Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest civilizations developing from 7,400 years ago.

Airplane Propeller: "Adams" is not even mentioned in the Propeller_(aeronautics) article.

So, yeah, out of the first 6 items, being SUPER generous "Africa" gets 1 point - half a point for proto-paper and half a point for proto-alphabet. And both of those are Egypt, not sub-saharan Africa.

The actual rundown:

Middle East: 3 points - alphabet, medicine and civilization

China: 2 points - Paper, 1/2 point on civilization and 1/2 point on propeller

Europe: 1.5 points - Propeller, 1/2 point on chess

India (tie): 1 point - chess

Egypt (tie): 1 point - 1/2 point on paper, 1/2 point on alphabet.

I'm not reading it but even if these were true and great inventions it could never possibly atone for the damage niggers do historically and constantly everywhere they exist.