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Disagree completely.
It's mundane for us now because it's a non-factor today. It was anything but 50 years ago.
perhaps. but I dont see a body of work there. I see one act (choreographed?) that turned her into the poster of civil rights. should she have been newsworthy? no doubt. but should she have been famous? Im not so sure.
Well I see your point originally, but we have to separate the person with the act if we're going to discuss something like this. Mrs. Parks herself was a quiet, reserved woman who didn't really go looking for fame or recognition. I think that rules out the choreography angle.
As for the act itself...I don't think she sat down knowing that she would cause as much trouble as she did. She'd worked the whole day, and didn't feel like going to the back, so she sat in the nearest seat available. There is indeed nothing remarkable about doing that nowadays for blacks, but in '55? That seen a direct challenge to white authority, regardless of whether she meant it or not and it could not go unanswered. That's what makes it rather remarkable because it got a lot more answers and even more attention than anyone could anticipated.
Herman Cain, Alan West, and the rest of those stooges.
Rosa Parks. virtual sainthood for a rather mundane act.
Disagree completely.
It's mundane for us now because it's a non-factor today. It was anything but 50 years ago.
perhaps. but I dont see a body of work there. I see one act (choreographed?) that turned her into the poster of civil rights. should she have been newsworthy? no doubt. but should she have been famous? Im not so sure.
The truth is I'd vote for Herman Cain or West as they're Americans that believe in a America that is powerful. Herman Cain earned his way in life and would be a great president.
I wish all blacks would be like Cain and West!
Disagree completely.
It's mundane for us now because it's a non-factor today. It was anything but 50 years ago.
perhaps. but I dont see a body of work there. I see one act (choreographed?) that turned her into the poster of civil rights. should she have been newsworthy? no doubt. but should she have been famous? Im not so sure.
Just imagine the intestinal fortitude it took to do that in the Jim crow segregated South where Black were at the mercy of a very racist and brutal White power structure that didn't think twice about brutalizing Blacks for trying to exercise their Civil Liberties.
Ponder this fact:
"About 371,000 German soldiers were held in American prisons until 1946. That they, above all in the southern states, were treated better than black workers, gave the growing civil rights movement a powerful weapon."
"Although not all of these reports were accurate, German POWs often did enjoy better treatment and more rights, such as access to "whites only" facilities. The fact that "Nazi prisoners" were given access to restaurants or railway compartments off-limits to black American soldiers provided the growing civil rights movement in the United States with a powerful weapon."
The Atlantic Times :: Archive
Herman Cain, Alan West, and the rest of those stooges.
Matthew could not come up with 10 on his own.
Come on all you racists, help him.
Matthew could not come up with 10 on his own.
Come on all you racists, help him.
I love an honest Republican. You can talk to them. You know where they are coming from.
At least Herman Cain worked his way up within the private sector to become someone. This is something you can't say for 90% of the rest of his race. I respect him.
What's so fucking good about doing what greece, Spain, Italy is doing? Talk about getting into a mess.
Herman Cain, Alan West, and the rest of those stooges.
Set aside their political and ideological views for a second, man.
I also don't like them politically or ideologically, but you have to admit that these are successful Black men who have done well to get themselves to where they are today.
Do agreed with me on that?
1# George Washington Carver-NO NOT PEANUT BUTTER AS KELLOG AND THE MAYANS DID THAT! "Discovered" hundreds of new and important uses for the peanut? Fathered the peanut industry? Revolutionized southern US agriculture? Nope.
Research by Barry Mackintosh, who served as bureau historian for the National Park Service (which manages the G.W. Carver National Monument), demonstrated the following:
Most of Carver's peanut and sweet potato creations were either unoriginal, impractical, or of uncertain effectiveness. No product born in his laboratory was widely adopted.
The boom years for Southern peanut production came prior to, and not as a result of, Carver's promotion of the crop.
Carver's work to improve regional farming practices was not of pioneering scientific importance and had little demonstrable impact.
2# Elijah McCoy-The oil cup, which automatically delivers a steady trickle of lubricant to machine parts while the machine is running, predates McCoy's career; a description of one appears in the May 6, 1848 issue of Scientific American. The automatic "displacement lubricator" for steam engines was developed in 1860 by John Ramsbottom of England, and notably improved in 1862 by James Roscoe of the same country. The "hydrostatic" lubricator originated no later than 1871.
Variants of the phrase Real McCoy appear in Scottish literature dating back to at least 1856 well before Elijah McCoy could have been involved.
3# Lewis Latimer-The earliest evidence for a light bulb screw base design is a drawing in a Thomas Edison notebook dated Sept. 11, 1880. It is not the work of Latimer, though:
Edison's long-time associates, Edward H. Johnson and John Ott, were principally responsible for designing fixtures in the fall of 1880. Their work resulted in the screw socket and base very much like those widely used today.
R. Friedel and P. Israel, Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention, (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1986).
The 1880 sketch of the screw socket is reproduced in the book cited above.
4# Greenville Woods- Granville Woods prevented railway accidents and saved countless lives by inventing the train telegraph (patented in 1887), which allowed communication to and from moving trains? Nope.
The earliest patents for train telegraphs go back to at least 1873. Lucius Phelps was the first inventor in the field to attract widespread notice, and the telegrams he exchanged on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad in January 1885 were hailed in the Feb. 21, 1885 issue of Scientific American as "perhaps the first ever sent to and from a moving train." Phelps remained at the forefront in developing the technology and by the end of 1887 already held 14 US patents on his system. He joined a team led by Thomas Edison, who had been working on his "grasshopper telegraph" for trains, and together they constructed on the Lehigh Valley Railroad one of the only induction telegraph systems ever put to commercial use. Although this telegraph was a technical success, it fulfilled no public need, and the market for on-board train telegraphy never took off. There is no evidence that any commercial railway telegraph based on Granville Woods's patents was ever built.
Air breaks
In 1869, a 22-year-old George Westinghouse received US patent #88929 for a brake device operated by compressed air, and in the same year organized the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. Many of the 361 patents he accumulated during his career were for air brake variations and improvements, including his first "automatic" version in 1872 (US #124404).
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Please help me with 6 more overrated blacks!!! Of course nearly all blacks are overrated, but I want good ones.
More scientist, Inventors, explorers. Is what I want.
Matthew could not come up with 10 on his own.
Come on all you racists, help him.
Black pundit comes up with a list of 10 overrated whites, you're fine. Turn the tables, play the race card. How's that bowl of hypocritical soup taste?
