TITLED : Kidnapped & Separated Afrikans Need Help Getting Home

HeyNow Afrikan Family !

On Afrikans Investing In Technology , Afrikans abroad & In Afrika

Should Invest In The Technologies around the world And Have It

Shipped To Afrika With The Know-How To Do It Ourselves.. We

SHOULD NOT just allow countries to come into our countries and build

and settle on our lands. If you will allow a stranger to run your country,

Then you will allow then to run your state. If you will allow a stranger to run your state,

then you will allow them to run your city, your neighborhood, your home, your family,

yourself.. We Black Afrikans will be free , when we stop selling ourselves !!!!!!!

America (The Whore Of Babylon) Is Trying To Re-vive it'as dying

soul via other ASIANS & CAUC - ASIANS , But Prophecy Is

Pronounced :

And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of

the south(AMERICA / BABYLON ): ALSO the ROBBERS OF OUR

PEOPLE shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; BUT

THEY SHALL FALL ! [Daniel 11:14 ]

ATTENTION AFRIKA , you have 300 million citizens spread

abroad that need your help getting back to our roots. While you

are looking to countries like America & China to uplift Afrika, Many

of us Black Afrikans spread abroad are proficient in a lot of useful

technologies. Here is a brief synopsis of some of the inventions

that Black Americans have produced. So please help us to get

home.

BLACK AFRICAN INVENTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONS

* Sarah Boone - IRONING BOARD - April 26, 1892

* John A. Burr - LAWN MOWER

* Marie V. Brittan Brown - HOME SECURITY SYSTEM - Dec 2, 1969

* Buridge & Marshman - TYPEWRITER

* George Carruthers - X-RAY MACHINE

* George Washington Carver - PEANUT BUTTER - PAINTS – PAINT STAINS – ETC

* W.A. Dietz - SHOE

* P.B. Downing - POSTAL LETTER BOX

* Charles R. Drew - BLOOD PLASMA STORAGE SYSTEM

* T. Elkins - TOILET (COMMODE)

* Robert Flemming Jr. - GUITAR

* George F. Grant - GOLF TEE

* J. Gregory - MOTOR

* Michael Harney - LANTERN

* Augustus Jackson - ICE CREAM

* B.F. Jackson - GAS BURNER

* H.A. Jackson - KITCHEN TABLE

* Ruane Jeter - DIGITAL TOASTER - April 14, 1987

* Isaac R. Johnson - BICYCLE FRAME

* John A. Johnson - WRENCH

* P. Johnson - EYE PROTECTOR (GOGGLES)

* W. Johnson - EGG BEATER

* Frederick M. Jones - DEFROSTER - REFRIGERATION CONTROLS – AIR CONDITIONER

* Jones & Long - BOTTLE CAPS

* John H. Jordan - CLOTHES DRESSER

* Mary B. Kenner - SANITARY BELT (TAMPONS) - May 15, 1956

* Mary B. Kenner - BATHROOM TISSUE HOLDER - Nov 19, 1982

* Mary B. Kenner - BACKWASHER ( BATHTUB OR SHOWER MOUNTED) - July 29,1987

* Lewis Latimer & Nichols - ELECTIC LAMP

* W.A. Lavalette - PRINTING PRESS

* Maurice W. Lee PRESSURE COOKER

* A.L. Lewis - WINDOW CLEANER

* John L. Love - PENCIL SHARPENER

* Tony J. Marshall - FIRE EXTINGUISHER

* Alexander Miles - ELEVATOR

* Jan E. Matzeliger - SHOE LASTING MACHINE

* W.A. Martin - LOCK

* Garrett A. Morgan - GAS MASK - Traffic Signal

* Lydia Newman - HAIR BRUSH - Nov 15, 1898

* Alice H. Parker - HEATING FURNACE - Dec 23, 1919

* J.F. Pickering - AIR SHIP (BLIMP)

* Purdy & Sadgwar - FOLDING CHAIR

* W.B. Purvis - FOUNTAIN PEN

* L.P. Ray - DUST PAN

* W.H. Richardson - BABY BUGGY

* G.T. Sampson - CLOTHES DRYER

* .W. Smith - LAWN SPRINKLER

* J. Standard - REFRIGERATOR

* T.W. Stewart - MOP

* Paul E. Williams - HELICOPTER

* Granville T. Woods - Roller Coaster

* Thanks to The Black Inventors Museum *

* Address : P.O. Box 76128 - Los Angeles , Calif. (90076)

* Phone (310) 859-4602)

* Director : Ghanaian Mr. Hamza Salifa

AND

ONE AFRICA TOURS & SPECIALTY SERVICES LTD.

* Major Contributor of Information : SEESTAH Imahkus Nzinga Ababio Okofo

[ http://www.oneafricaghana.com/ ]

P. O. Box CC 1251 - Cape Coast

Ghana - West Africa

What can you do to help us ?

Start with contacting Pan-Afrikanist organizations like BLACK

STAR MEDIA (Modelled after Marcus Garvey’s Vision For Afrika) : They are at

[ www.libradio.net ]. The CEO of BLACK STAR MEDIA is Keidi-Obi

Awadu. He has been on the frontline fighting for our freedom for

over 30 years.

It's Not A Question Of Other Learned Societies.

It's The INFERIORITY COMPLEX WE HAVE TO SHED

St. Paul In A Letter To The Christians In Rome Said :

" For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man that is

among you, NOT TO THINK OF HIMSELF MORE HIGHLY Than

He Ought To Think; but to think soberly, according AS GOD HAS

D EALT TO EVERY MAN THE MEASURE OF FAITH .

We All Should Think Highly Of Ourselves, Keeping In Our Mind

That God Gave Us Dominion Over The Earth

, NOT EACH OTHER. !!!!!!!!

So let's please help us to return to our Mama Afrika as Israel

under Moses escaped their exile !!!!!!!

[ Their will be an exodus of nations leaving America ; returning to their ancestral homes

e.g. Black Africans to nations like Ghana, Sierra Leone, etc…]

Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 16

Cut off the sower from Babylon ;and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest

For fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and

THEY SHALL FLEE EVERY ONE TO HIS OWN LAND .

MAMA AFRIKA YOUR CHILDREN WANT TO COME HOME !!!!!!!

[Check Out :

WHO BROUGHT THE SLAVES TO AMERICA ?

[ http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/42787621/Who+brought+the+slaves+to+ameri ca?tab=summary]

for full length video

FRITZ SPRINGMEIER A Bold Christian Truthseeker

The Top 13 Illuminati Bloodlines

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k73Q2_f4vKU ]

WAKE UP ! STAY UP MY BROTHERS & SISTERS !

[ www.libradio.net ]

[ www.allafrica.com ]

[ www.gcnlive.com]

- Life Is a Game. Have Fun. [ Luke 18:17 / Isaiah 11:6 ] :

to upliftdarace_144:

Oh my! How uninformed you are.

None of those things were ever invented by the Africans. Never do the Africans invent things. The examples you noted above are of people who hold some patents on items that White European people have invented. Interestingly enough, none of the people you cited has an African name...that’s because the Africans cannot invent or built anything. But they are very skilled at breaking and destroying things. Look at the DRC or Zimbabwe. The Africans have an IQ 20% below of their Oriental counterparts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race,_Evolution,_and_Behavior. So give us a break and go back to your hut.

Now here are some fact from our well versed reader juhlman

Here it is LIAR! Every one knows you're a liar "Uplift", I've told everyone where to fact-check your lies...................... when you have something interesting to say, say it! But don't bog us all down in your self-serving lies....................

Here's "my" "cut-n-paste" you liar................!

........ I thought "Uplift" would stop posting their lies when I originally confronted them - but NO, "Uplift" only stopped posting his lies and exaggerations for a while - thinking I was not looking...............

"Uplift" makes spurious claims to assert some kind on "African" pride on these boards. He makes posts that attribute some great "invention" or technological "leap" forward as being the result of some sort of "African" achievement!

I will NOT disparage the great leaps towards our collecitve knowledge that Africans or persons of African descent have contributed to our world or society, yet "Uplift" spouts off facts as if we couldn't "check" his "facts" on the interwebs..........................

Here is a sampling of "Uplift"'s so-called "facts"......... I've posted the Wikipedia and other interwebs links so you can see for yourself whether what "Uplift" says is true.............

"Uplift" claims that the following persons "invented" the following things:

• Sarah Boone - IRONING BOARD - April 26, 1892

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironing_board#Ironing_board

“On 16 February 1858 W. Vandenburg and J. Harvey patented an ironing table that made pressing sleeves and pant legs easier.[3] A truly portable folding ironing board was first patented in Canada in 1875 by John B. Porter of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The invention also included a removable press board used for sleeves.[4]”

• John A. Burr - LAWN MOWER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_mower

“The first lawn mower was invented by Edwin Budding in 1827 in Thrupp, just outside Stroud, in Gloucestershire. Budding's mower was designed primarily to cut the lawn on sports grounds and expensive gardens, as a superior alternative to the scythe, and was patented in 1830. It took ten more years and further innovations to create a machine that could be worked by animals, and sixty years before a steam-powered lawn mower was built.”

No mention whatsoever of John A. Burr. However, you will find mention of John A. Burr’s “improvements” to the “lawn mower” here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_lawn

“An African American inventor named John Albert Burr patented an improved rotary blade lawn mower on May 9, 1899, U.S. Patent 624,749, with the wheel placement altered for better performance.”

• Marie V. Brittan Brown - HOME SECURITY SYSTEM - Dec 2, 1969

I can’t argue with this one, websites are hard to find on this example, but it safe to say that Marie V. Brittan Brown did invent the “video” home security system in 1969.

• Buridge & Marshman – TYPEWRITER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter

“No single person invented the typewriter. As with the automobile, telephone, and telegraph, a number of people contributed insights and inventions that eventually resulted in commercially successful instruments. In fact, historians have estimated that some form of typewriter was invented 52 times as tinkerers tried to come up with a workable design.”

However, again you will find mention of their improvement to the “typrewriter” here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_Marshman

But note that the date is 1885, earlier versions appear at least as early as 1714. While Mssr’s Burridge & Marshman “improved” the typewriter, they certainly did not “invent” it.

• George Carruthers - X-RAY MACHINE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_machine

The X-ray was “discovered” by a European, the machinery involved to project “x-rays” would necessarily have been invented by the person who discovered them in the first place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray

“Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen is usually credited as the discoverer of X-rays because he was the first to systematically study them, though he is not the first to have observed their effects. He is also the one who gave them the name "X-rays", though many referred to these as "Röntgen rays" for several decades after their discovery.

X-rays were found emanating from Crookes tubes, experimental discharge tubes invented around 1875, by scientists investigating the cathode rays, that is energetic electron beams, that were first created in the tubes. Wilhelm Röntgen was the first to systematically study them, in 1895.[26]

Among the important early researchers in X-rays were Ivan Pulyui, William Crookes, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Eugen Goldstein, Heinrich Hertz, Philipp Lenard, Hermann von Helmholtz, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Charles Glover Barkla, Max von Laue, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.”

George Carruthers did NOT “invent” invent the x-ray machine, although he IS an extremely talented man:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Robert_Carruthers

“By 1964, Carruthers began employment for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. where his work focused on far ultraviolet astronomy. 1969 was the year he received a patent for his invention, the "Image Converter," which detected electromagnetic radiation in short wave lengths, and in 1970, he made the first examination of molecular hydrogen in space. Two years later, Carruthers invented the first moon-based observatory, the Far Ultraviolet Camera/ Spectrograph, which was used in the Apollo 16 mission. During the 1980s, Carruthers helped create a program called the Science & Engineers Apprentice Program, which allows high school students to spend a summer working with scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory. Later on in 1986, one of Carruthers' inventions captured an ultraviolet image of Halley's Comet. In 1991, he invented a camera that was used in the Space Shuttle Mission. During the summers of 1996 and 1997 he taught a course in Earth and Space Science for D.C. Public Schools Science teachers. He also helped develop a series of videotapes on Earth and Space science for high school students.”

• George Washington Carver - PEANUT BUTTER - PAINTS – PAINT STAINS – ETC

I won’t even argue the point, G.W. Carver was a brilliant man…………. A truly great man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

• W.A. Dietz – SHOE

Are you freaking kidding me? “Uplift” has found that an African “invented” the SHOE! Well, I suppose since science acknowledges human life began in Africa, it is more than likely that an African thought of the “shoe”, 3,000 years ago…

Oops! I was mistaken, per Wikipedia the “shoe” was “invented” in what is now the U.S.A.!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe

“The earliest known shoes date from about 8000 to 7000 BCE and were found in Oregon, USA in 1938.[1] However, tanned leather, the material most commonly used for making shoes, does not normally last for thousands of years, so shoes were probably in use long before this. Physical anthropologist Erik Trinkaus believes he has found evidence that the use of shoes began in the period between about 40,000 and 26,000 years ago”

There is NO mention of a W.A. Dietz in Wikipedia. But Google reveals he did receive a patent for a shoe design in 1867, but that is not quite the “invention” of the “shoe” is it?

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/history.html

• P.B. Downing - POSTAL LETTER BOX – Again, MORE drivel from “Uplift”!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_box#History_of_post_boxes

“In 1653, the first post boxes are believed to have been installed in Paris, France.[1] By 1829, post boxes were in use throughout France.[2] In Britain the first pillar post boxes were erected in Jersey in 1852. Roadside wall boxes first appeared in 1857 as a cheaper alternative to pillar boxes, especially in rural districts. In 1853 the first pillar box on the British mainland was erected at Botchergate, Carlisle. In 1856 Richard Redgrave of the Department of Science and Art designed an ornate pillar box for use in London and other large cities. In 1859 the design was improved, and this became the first National Standard pillar box.”

You can find mention of P.B. Downing here, he “invented” the mail box in 1891, some time after “post boxes” had been first introduced:

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/pbdowning.html

• Charles R. Drew - BLOOD PLASMA STORAGE SYSTEM

No argument here against this name, Charles Drew, Great American of African descent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Drew

• T. Elkins - TOILET (COMMODE)

Seriously……… “Uplift” wants us to believe that an African “invented” the “toilet”? Here’s what Wikipedia has to say : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet#History

“The third millennium B.C. was the "Age of Cleanliness." Toilets and sewers were invented in several parts of the world, and Mohenjo-Daro circa 2800 B.C. had some of the most advanced, with lavatories built into the outer walls of houses. These were "Western-style" toilets made from bricks with wooden seats on top. They had vertical chutes, through which waste fell into street drains or cesspits. Sir Mortimer Wheeler, the director general of archaeology in India from 1944 to 1948, wrote, "The high quality of the sanitary arrangements could well be envied in many parts of the world today."”

A Google-search of “T. Elkins” shows he was involved in refrigeration, but certainly did NOT “invent” the toilet or commode……….

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/telkins.html

• Robert Flemming Jr. – GUITAR

So………. A certain “Robert Flemming Jr. “invented” the “guitar”…………… According to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar

“The guitar is descended from the Roman cithara brought by the Romans to Hispania around 40 AD, and further adapted and developed with the arrival of the four-string oud, brought by the Moors after their conquest of Iberia in the 8th century.”

References to “Robert Flemming” or “Robert Fleming” are vague at best, he may actually have “invented” a particular guitar or an improvement of the guitar, but we can rest assured, Romans were NOT named Robert Fleming Jr……………

I grew tired as I searched “Uplift”’s outright lies and material exaggerations……….

As if……..

A “Black” Man (George F. Grant) “invented” the golf tee…… a game with it’s roots in Scotland…… A “Tee”” was a pinch of sand and “gorse” that one placed his “tee” shot on top of……… Although traditionally associated with Scotland, Wikipedia asserts it’s origins lie in a game from Roman times : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf#Origin

I won't go on to further illustrate the lies that "Uplift" posts here, but you sense a pattern......... "Uplift" uses the example of an ordinary item and then somehow "claims" that they were "invented" by "Black" people................. "Uplift" uses a gratuitously ignorant example of how certain "Black" people "invented" one item or another to reinforce his view of African "pride"......

I, for one, don't need THAT! I recognize that Africans and people of African descent have contributed and improved on what was "invented" before them!

Why does some one need to post outright lies and exaggerations?

If you post here, be FACTUAL, do NOT make up stuff the rest of us can easily research on the interwebs!

I have posted FACTUAL refutations of what "Uplift" posts here several times........

This person needs to be BANNNED" - I have shown him to post outright lies or intentional exaggerations of FACT................

"Uplift" is using this board to affirm their own sense of self-worth with little regards as to the FACTS they supposedly post...........

AND............... "Uplift"............. I HAVE saved this word document so that the next time you spout your ignorant drivel, I will expose you again!

If I made a post about how many great "white" or "asian" people "invented" a great many things, I'd be ostracized from the board...........

"Uplift"............... the next interesting thing you have to say will be your first. I too can make up things about how glorious "white" people are too,, but I do not, because we are not, nor are those of any other race.

"Uplift", what you don't get is that this is NOT about race, it's about justice and the rule of law for ALL Zimbabweans..........

When you get your head around THAT, we'll still be here, until then, keep your idiotic drivel to yourself! You do NOT advance the conversation, you merely expose yourself for the idiot that you are!

Is there anyone else here who wants to buy into "Uplift's" lies?

"Total Empowerment!"

to upliftdarace_144:

Oh my! How uninformed you are.

None of those things were ever invented by the Africans. Never do the Africans invent things. The examples you noted above are of people who hold some patents on items that White European people have invented. Interestingly enough, none of the people you cited has an African name...that’s because the Africans cannot invent or built anything. But they are very skilled at breaking and destroying things. Look at the DRC or Zimbabwe. The Africans have an IQ 20% below of their Oriental counterparts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race,_Evolution,_and_Behavior. So give us a break and go back to your hut.

Now here are some fact from our well versed reader juhlman

Here it is LIAR! Every one knows you're a liar "Uplift", I've told everyone where to fact-check your lies...................... when you have something interesting to say, say it! But don't bog us all down in your self-serving lies....................

Here's "my" "cut-n-paste" you liar................!

........ I thought "Uplift" would stop posting their lies when I originally confronted them - but NO, "Uplift" only stopped posting his lies and exaggerations for a while - thinking I was not looking...............

"Uplift" makes spurious claims to assert some kind on "African" pride on these boards. He makes posts that attribute some great "invention" or technological "leap" forward as being the result of some sort of "African" achievement!

I will NOT disparage the great leaps towards our collecitve knowledge that Africans or persons of African descent have contributed to our world or society, yet "Uplift" spouts off facts as if we couldn't "check" his "facts" on the interwebs..........................

Here is a sampling of "Uplift"'s so-called "facts"......... I've posted the Wikipedia and other interwebs links so you can see for yourself whether what "Uplift" says is true.............

"Uplift" claims that the following persons "invented" the following things:

• Sarah Boone - IRONING BOARD - April 26, 1892

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironing_board#Ironing_board

“On 16 February 1858 W. Vandenburg and J. Harvey patented an ironing table that made pressing sleeves and pant legs easier.[3] A truly portable folding ironing board was first patented in Canada in 1875 by John B. Porter of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The invention also included a removable press board used for sleeves.[4]”

• John A. Burr - LAWN MOWER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_mower

“The first lawn mower was invented by Edwin Budding in 1827 in Thrupp, just outside Stroud, in Gloucestershire. Budding's mower was designed primarily to cut the lawn on sports grounds and expensive gardens, as a superior alternative to the scythe, and was patented in 1830. It took ten more years and further innovations to create a machine that could be worked by animals, and sixty years before a steam-powered lawn mower was built.”

No mention whatsoever of John A. Burr. However, you will find mention of John A. Burr’s “improvements” to the “lawn mower” here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_lawn

“An African American inventor named John Albert Burr patented an improved rotary blade lawn mower on May 9, 1899, U.S. Patent 624,749, with the wheel placement altered for better performance.”

• Marie V. Brittan Brown - HOME SECURITY SYSTEM - Dec 2, 1969

I can’t argue with this one, websites are hard to find on this example, but it safe to say that Marie V. Brittan Brown did invent the “video” home security system in 1969.

• Buridge & Marshman – TYPEWRITER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter

“No single person invented the typewriter. As with the automobile, telephone, and telegraph, a number of people contributed insights and inventions that eventually resulted in commercially successful instruments. In fact, historians have estimated that some form of typewriter was invented 52 times as tinkerers tried to come up with a workable design.”

However, again you will find mention of their improvement to the “typrewriter” here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_Marshman

But note that the date is 1885, earlier versions appear at least as early as 1714. While Mssr’s Burridge & Marshman “improved” the typewriter, they certainly did not “invent” it.

• George Carruthers - X-RAY MACHINE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_machine

The X-ray was “discovered” by a European, the machinery involved to project “x-rays” would necessarily have been invented by the person who discovered them in the first place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray

“Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen is usually credited as the discoverer of X-rays because he was the first to systematically study them, though he is not the first to have observed their effects. He is also the one who gave them the name "X-rays", though many referred to these as "Röntgen rays" for several decades after their discovery.

X-rays were found emanating from Crookes tubes, experimental discharge tubes invented around 1875, by scientists investigating the cathode rays, that is energetic electron beams, that were first created in the tubes. Wilhelm Röntgen was the first to systematically study them, in 1895.[26]

Among the important early researchers in X-rays were Ivan Pulyui, William Crookes, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Eugen Goldstein, Heinrich Hertz, Philipp Lenard, Hermann von Helmholtz, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Charles Glover Barkla, Max von Laue, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.”

George Carruthers did NOT “invent” invent the x-ray machine, although he IS an extremely talented man:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Robert_Carruthers

“By 1964, Carruthers began employment for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. where his work focused on far ultraviolet astronomy. 1969 was the year he received a patent for his invention, the "Image Converter," which detected electromagnetic radiation in short wave lengths, and in 1970, he made the first examination of molecular hydrogen in space. Two years later, Carruthers invented the first moon-based observatory, the Far Ultraviolet Camera/ Spectrograph, which was used in the Apollo 16 mission. During the 1980s, Carruthers helped create a program called the Science & Engineers Apprentice Program, which allows high school students to spend a summer working with scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory. Later on in 1986, one of Carruthers' inventions captured an ultraviolet image of Halley's Comet. In 1991, he invented a camera that was used in the Space Shuttle Mission. During the summers of 1996 and 1997 he taught a course in Earth and Space Science for D.C. Public Schools Science teachers. He also helped develop a series of videotapes on Earth and Space science for high school students.”

• George Washington Carver - PEANUT BUTTER - PAINTS – PAINT STAINS – ETC

I won’t even argue the point, G.W. Carver was a brilliant man…………. A truly great man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

• W.A. Dietz – SHOE

Are you freaking kidding me? “Uplift” has found that an African “invented” the SHOE! Well, I suppose since science acknowledges human life began in Africa, it is more than likely that an African thought of the “shoe”, 3,000 years ago…

Oops! I was mistaken, per Wikipedia the “shoe” was “invented” in what is now the U.S.A.!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe

“The earliest known shoes date from about 8000 to 7000 BCE and were found in Oregon, USA in 1938.[1] However, tanned leather, the material most commonly used for making shoes, does not normally last for thousands of years, so shoes were probably in use long before this. Physical anthropologist Erik Trinkaus believes he has found evidence that the use of shoes began in the period between about 40,000 and 26,000 years ago”

There is NO mention of a W.A. Dietz in Wikipedia. But Google reveals he did receive a patent for a shoe design in 1867, but that is not quite the “invention” of the “shoe” is it?

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/history.html

• P.B. Downing - POSTAL LETTER BOX – Again, MORE drivel from “Uplift”!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_box#History_of_post_boxes

“In 1653, the first post boxes are believed to have been installed in Paris, France.[1] By 1829, post boxes were in use throughout France.[2] In Britain the first pillar post boxes were erected in Jersey in 1852. Roadside wall boxes first appeared in 1857 as a cheaper alternative to pillar boxes, especially in rural districts. In 1853 the first pillar box on the British mainland was erected at Botchergate, Carlisle. In 1856 Richard Redgrave of the Department of Science and Art designed an ornate pillar box for use in London and other large cities. In 1859 the design was improved, and this became the first National Standard pillar box.”

You can find mention of P.B. Downing here, he “invented” the mail box in 1891, some time after “post boxes” had been first introduced:

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/pbdowning.html

• Charles R. Drew - BLOOD PLASMA STORAGE SYSTEM

No argument here against this name, Charles Drew, Great American of African descent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Drew

• T. Elkins - TOILET (COMMODE)

Seriously……… “Uplift” wants us to believe that an African “invented” the “toilet”? Here’s what Wikipedia has to say : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet#History

“The third millennium B.C. was the "Age of Cleanliness." Toilets and sewers were invented in several parts of the world, and Mohenjo-Daro circa 2800 B.C. had some of the most advanced, with lavatories built into the outer walls of houses. These were "Western-style" toilets made from bricks with wooden seats on top. They had vertical chutes, through which waste fell into street drains or cesspits. Sir Mortimer Wheeler, the director general of archaeology in India from 1944 to 1948, wrote, "The high quality of the sanitary arrangements could well be envied in many parts of the world today."”

A Google-search of “T. Elkins” shows he was involved in refrigeration, but certainly did NOT “invent” the toilet or commode……….

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/telkins.html

• Robert Flemming Jr. – GUITAR

So………. A certain “Robert Flemming Jr. “invented” the “guitar”…………… According to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar

“The guitar is descended from the Roman cithara brought by the Romans to Hispania around 40 AD, and further adapted and developed with the arrival of the four-string oud, brought by the Moors after their conquest of Iberia in the 8th century.”

References to “Robert Flemming” or “Robert Fleming” are vague at best, he may actually have “invented” a particular guitar or an improvement of the guitar, but we can rest assured, Romans were NOT named Robert Fleming Jr……………

I grew tired as I searched “Uplift”’s outright lies and material exaggerations……….

As if……..

A “Black” Man (George F. Grant) “invented” the golf tee…… a game with it’s roots in Scotland…… A “Tee”” was a pinch of sand and “gorse” that one placed his “tee” shot on top of……… Although traditionally associated with Scotland, Wikipedia asserts it’s origins lie in a game from Roman times : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf#Origin

I won't go on to further illustrate the lies that "Uplift" posts here, but you sense a pattern......... "Uplift" uses the example of an ordinary item and then somehow "claims" that they were "invented" by "Black" people................. "Uplift" uses a gratuitously ignorant example of how certain "Black" people "invented" one item or another to reinforce his view of African "pride"......

I, for one, don't need THAT! I recognize that Africans and people of African descent have contributed and improved on what was "invented" before them!

Why does some one need to post outright lies and exaggerations?

If you post here, be FACTUAL, do NOT make up stuff the rest of us can easily research on the interwebs!

I have posted FACTUAL refutations of what "Uplift" posts here several times........

This person needs to be BANNNED" - I have shown him to post outright lies or intentional exaggerations of FACT................

"Uplift" is using this board to affirm their own sense of self-worth with little regards as to the FACTS they supposedly post...........

AND............... "Uplift"............. I HAVE saved this word document so that the next time you spout your ignorant drivel, I will expose you again!

If I made a post about how many great "white" or "asian" people "invented" a great many things, I'd be ostracized from the board...........

"Uplift"............... the next interesting thing you have to say will be your first. I too can make up things about how glorious "white" people are too,, but I do not, because we are not, nor are those of any other race.

"Uplift", what you don't get is that this is NOT about race, it's about justice and the rule of law for ALL Zimbabweans..........

When you get your head around THAT, we'll still be here, until then, keep your idiotic drivel to yourself! You do NOT advance the conversation, you merely expose yourself for the idiot that you are!

Is there anyone else here who wants to buy into "Uplift's" lies?

"Total Empowerment!"