People
A very humorous and revealing story is told about a
group of white people who were fed up with African Americans, so they
joined together and wished themselves away. They passed through a
deep dark tunnel and emerged in sort of a twilight zone where there
is an America without black
people.
At first these white people breathed a sigh of relief.
'At last', they said, 'no more crime, drugs, violence and welfare.'
All of the blacks have gone! Then suddenly, reality set in. The 'NEW AMERICA'
is
not America at all - only a barren land.
1. There are very few crops that have flourished
because the nation was built on a slave-supported system.
2. There are no cities with tall skyscrapers because Alexander Mils,
a black man, invented the elevator, and without it, one finds great
difficulty reaching higher floors.
3. There are few if any cars because Richard Spikes, a black man,
invented the automatic gearshift, Joseph Gambol, also black, invented
the Super Charge System for Internal Combustion Engines, and Garrett
A. Morgan, a black man,
invented the traffic signals.
4. Furthermore, one could not use the rapid transit system because
its procurer was the electric trolley, which was invented by another
black man, Albert R. Robinson.
5. Even if there were streets on which cars and a rapid transit
system could operate, they were cluttered with paper because an
African American, Charles Brooks, invented the street sweeper..
6. There were few if any newspapers, magazines and books because John
Love invented the pencil sharpener, William Purveys invented the
fountain pen, and Lee Barrage invented the Type Writing Machine and
W. A. Love invented the
Advanced Printing Press. They were all, you guessed it, Black.
7. Even if Americans could write their letters, articles and books,
they would not have been transported by mail because William Barry
invented the Postmarking and Canceling Machine, William Purveys
invented the Hand Stamp and Philip Downing invented the Letter Drop.
8. The lawns were brown and wilted because Joseph Smith invented the
Lawn Sprinkler and John Burr the Lawn Mower.
9. When they entered their homes, they found them to be poorly
ventilated and poorly heated. You see, Frederick Jones invented the
Air Conditioner and Alice Parker the Heating Furnace. Their homes
were also dim. But of course, Lewis
Lattimer later invented the Electric Lamp, Michael Harvey invented
the lantern, and Granville T. Woods invented the Automatic Cut off
Switch. Their homes were also filthy because Thomas W. Steward
invented the Mop and Lloyd P. Ray the Dust Pan.
10. Their children met them at the door - barefooted, shabby, motley
and unkempt. But what could one expect? Jan E. Matzelinger
invented the Shoe Lasting Machine, Walter Sammons invented the Comb,
Sarah Boone invented the Ironing Board, and George T. Samon invented
the Clothes Dryer.
11. Finally, they were resigned to at least have dinner amidst all of
this turmoil. But here again, the food had spoiled because another
Black Man, John Standard invented the refrigerator..
Now, isn't that something? What would this country be like without
the contributions of Blacks, as African-Americans?
Martin Luther King, Jr. said, 'by the time we leave for work,
millions of Americans have depended on the inventions from the minds
of Blacks.'
Black history includes more than just slavery, Frederick Douglass,
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Marcus Garvey & W.E.B.
Dubois.
Tiny Tim was head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank during the Bush regime. Along with Bush's Secretary of the Treasury, Geithner came up with that $700 billion bail-out that loaded banks with loot on their way to insolvency. Bank of America got $25 billion of it to spend on Thain's company Merrill. That was before the extra $20 billion was weedled by Thain.
