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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.
The worst thing about this garbage is that guys like Johnson are thrown in with the inventor of the "insect destroyer gun" and the "rocket catapult". Kinda hard to take him seriously...
I always say this when I hear about Johnson invented the Super Soaker, it has nothing to do with his race but I don't need to preface that here I suppose.
Super Soaker isn't an invention, the concept existed and is essentially a pump pressured sprayer that one uses to fertilize their lawn or spray for bugs. Lonnie Johnson didn't invent anything, he took a pump sprayer and put it into a water gun format. Don't get me wrong it was brilliant marketing and a revolutionary toy. But it always chaps my ass when people say he invented super soakers like the idea of pressurized water being projected out of a nozzle was his idea or something.
Smart dude came up with a good toy. Made millions. Didn't invent shit so much as repurposed something with a more catchy design. Fight me.
Yeah they claim Africa because the Persians passed it to the Moors and somehow that made it “African”.
I was about to say, I’m pretty sure the warlords of Africa weren’t coming up with the concepts of knights and the monarchs while rounding up their own people and selling them off as slaves