I always wondered if the trip was worth it?This is hands down one of the most entertaining threads I have read in a bit.
Ok great...so? What does it mean? That a certain member of the team, who happened to be black was directed on a scout mission and stumbled upon the pole? Yes...technically he discovered the pole. Yet..how did he get there?I have no idea.
Too scared to answer the question.
No, I actually don't know. I googled it, and there seems to be some disagreement on the subject. So why don't you tell me?
Well obviously it was a black guy otherwise you wouldn't have brought it up.
Answer the question.
I have no idea.
Too scared to answer the question. So now I'm going to teach you a lesson on how much whites have revised history.
Who got to the North Pole first, Frederick A. Cook or Robert E. Peary? In my Findings column, I suggest that the answer is neither. We can debate their claims and consider other candidates here.
Peary’s claim was championed by The Times and certified by the National Geographic Society (which both helped sponsor his expedition). It was formally accepted by the U.S. Congress, which promoted him to rear admiral and gave him a corresponding pension.
Who Was First at the North Pole?
So according to white history Robert Peary was the first to the North Pole.
In 1909, 23 men joined Peary’s final Arctic expedition, leaving New York City onboard the Roosevelt bound for Greenland. Only five men were with Peary on the final sled dash north, and Henson was the only non-Inuit. Exhausted, Peary was unable to walk and had to be pulled on a sledge for the final days of the journey. At the very last, he sent Henson ahead as a scout. After decades of near fatal struggle, reaching the actual Pole itself seemed from Henson's recollections a study in anti-climax: “I was in the lead that had overshot the mark by a couple of miles. We went back then and I could see that my footprints were the first at the spot.”
So according to the trip record Matthew Henson got there first.
Matthew Henson: First Man on the North Pole?
This is an example of how whites have revised history. You have lived a lie and that's the way it is.
Being uneducated on the topic of polar exploration let me ask you some questions.
-Who devised the expeditionary plan?
-Who proposed and delivered it for evaluation and approval?
-Who funded it?
-Who led the expedition and assumed responsibility for every member, including Mr. Henson?
According to information I have read, Matthew Henson was first man on all expeditions with Peary and was that for over 20 years. Therefore they both planned this expedition. Henson was no bag carrier who just stumbled on to the north pole. And Peary was funded by outside sources, I realize that you as a white dude want to believe that whites are the only ones that ever found, created, invented, innovated or thought, but that's not how it's been. People of other races have also, and people of other races have contributed to world achievement besides whites.