I only have time to correct some of your incorrect research, but I will correct one. The filament for the light bulb wasn't invented by a black man. However, since the material in the filament would not last more than a few minutes due to the heat, Lewis Latimer did provide the carbon filament, which allowed the bulb to have a longer life. If Latimer provided no significant improvement to the light bulb, then did Edison employ his expertise? Like most racists, you spend your time trying to demean any inventions by blacks. Which is expected. The only thing you are missing is a white cone-shaped headpiece.
It's pretty wild that the video LITERALLY MENTIONS that Latimer (and his partner) "invented certain new and useful improvements in incandescent electric lamps" but then you claim that I didn't? You just wanted to call me a racist. Well done!
The common myth again! Edison had his bulbs lasting 1200 hours before Latimers innovation, and years before Edison employed him. Maybe Edison was the first DEI employer, Tesla did describe him as a great man.
@@clivebaxter6354 First of all: I need a source on the 1200 claim. Second of all: The lightbulb by Thomas lasted 200 hours or elss, and even if the 1200 claim is true, Lewis Latimers could last 1500 hours, a whole week more
This is what rewriting history looks like. What Andrew is doing may seem harsh, but unabashedly changing history to fit some bizarre narrative is propaganda, not facts.
it is worse than that, such blatant disregard for facts in favor of racial pride and that whilst blaming another race for keeping yours down is exactly what the nazis did, not even kidding here
Remember in high school when you had to give a presentation and there were always the kids that didn't do any research and completely BS'd the entire thing hoping the class and teacher wouldn't catch them? They make videos for Buzzfeed and other news outlets now.
@@lasercat538 Reminds me of this quote in "Get Hard" movie: " I built this company with my two own hands. Just me, that computer and an eight million dollar loan from my father."
Ah but wait, did some black guy do it as well? Sorry, but if you’re white, goes to him. Oh wait, some trans black strong independent “woman” with a degree in gender studies and queer dance theory did it like five days later, so it goes to him. Victimhood baby!
At this point, he should be asked to make a video about black inventions . At lest he is acurate. I don't think there is a single shade of human who hasn't contributed something positive to humanity
Be proud of 'em....I am. Not because they're black inventions or white inventions but because they are AMERICAN inventions and I don't care what anyone says. America is still awesome. Warts and all.
The point that should be made is that black Americans have absolutely helped US society to progress. Real shame when uneducated people pick bad examples, because it makes the real contributions look bad.
Im black and I constantly try to explain to my black friends, especially the ones that are heavy into the BLM movement, is that there is a difference between pride and just flat out ignorance. You should never let pride overshadow facts and history...
@MrBerg4ever And they get so emotional too. "In the age of information, there are those who choose to be ignorant"- some guy. I dunno but it's a meme...
It’s really cringe how far/low they go to seek some kind of validation. I’m Mexican American and I just kind of feel embarrassed for other “minorities” who love to self victimize and lead every aspect of their life with the color of their skin.
It's an excuse to be a lazy horrible person. It's just someone elses fault. I like to think we at some point in history was able to attribute responsibility to ones actions but we have just spiralled towards blaming everything on everyone else.
These people see a name affiliated with something and think this means they invented it. How can someone even think a mop was first invented in the late 1800s.
The skin color is often a proxy for one's life experiences (no, not all), especially during slavery and the Jim Crow era. Not much different than highlighting the accomplishments of women during a time when gender roles in the workplace were far more prevalent. Pretend to the contrary as you might, I'm guessing you were already aware that they're not just arbitrarily singling out physical traits but rather highlighting those traits that contributed to making the accomplishment of certain tasks more of an uphill battle (hence why videos about the world's best freckle-faced, bald-headed or [insert arbitrary physical trait] inventors are in short supply). It's not a reduction to recognize their skin color anymore than the Special Olympics reduces their competitors to their respective handicaps: its an acknowledgement of triumph in the face of considerable obstacle. But if you fail to recognize the obstacles that black people have faced, then I could see how it all seems so arbitrary.
@@mr_knowitall i mean yeah but the problem is that the videos he is refering lie about the inventions and even miss out some important ones there is were the comment about (the only factor for them is their skin) comes from, because they don't care about their accomplishments, just their struggle, is like the movie bout the black girls who worked on nasa portraying their journey inside as a really racist enviroment when in real life one even said that nasa treated them normal like all of the employees because everyone was so focused on work, but for some reason they needed to exagerated those factors.
@@spinosaurusstriker well, this video isn't quite the rebuttal it claims. For example, he says that improvements don't qualify as inventions, yet Edison's patent for the light bulb was an "Improvement on Electric Lights'. So that form of rebuttal is inadequate. Also, pointing out that certain patents preceded others doesn't mean that those earlier patents were the improvements adopted by industry, eg. Edison's electric lights were adopted while others were not. So if a black man's improvements to the elevator door was adopted by industry while earlier patents were not, you can't look at the elevator today and credit an improvement by another inventor if today's elevator didn't follow his invention's lineage. Back to Edison: if he patented an 'improvement in electric lights' wherein the improvement described was Lewis Latimer's carbon filament...a filament that he discovered while also patenting the process for manufacturing them...couldn't it be argued that Lewis Latimer 'invented' the light bulb? And yes I'm aware that he co-patented the process.
@@mr_knowitall Yeah these inventors and innovators certainly were faced with real obstacles. Unlike the BLM activists of today, who are mostly just lazy and entitled. "Give me free stuff because... Slavery in the past which I was never personally subjected to!" These are ideas that would have never crossed the mind or any self-respecting african american inventor or scientist back then, and that's DESPITE the fact that they faced real racism and actual discrimination.
Just to beat the comments about Andrew making fun of black inventions, he's not. He is making fun of the people who give credit for an invention to a person because of the color their skin with no regard to whether the information is correct. At no point is the color of an inventors skin import, it's all about the invention.
He even gave more credit to the guy that invented truck refrigerators, and started thermo king. It's a huge invention that literally moved mankind forward. I'm a truck driver and use his products every day.
@@raedwulf61 John Wayne playing Genghis Khan is white washing history. These people are "black washing" the history of invention and simultaneously snubbing black inventors who did contribute. BBC had an Alexander the Great played by a black actor. Black actress as Queen Anne Boleyn on a BBC miniseries. There are plenty of black stories and histories I would be interested in. Why don't they make one. I mean, other than American slavery.
@@raedwulf61 ummmmm no. George Washington CARVER. You know, the inventor of peanut butter, was Nigerian. Hmm that’s an actual black inventor the list left off. Weird how that works...
It does such a disservice to black Americans when they blatantly misrepresent these peoples achievements. Rather than just tell the truth and celebrate the ingenuity and brilliance of these people, they lie about them and completely take away any chance of learning about them in truth.
Where do you get that the first guy is [BLACK]?...That first guy is both (black and white), which a great majority of them are and they prop themselves up as 'black' and speak for us! This is a grave error! Whenever their 'white' side disown them, they come to our side and proselytize! A bizarre reality we deal with.
What's even more disturbing is that Afros say that they were the first people or teachers of ancient civilizations: Egypt, Japan, Romans, China, Etruscans, Russians (yes, Russians), Amerindians (Aztecs, Olmecs, Mayas, Cherokees,etc), and of course everything European. Non blacks find these dumb claims amusing-comical but refuse to make videos about it because they would be censored and because most people just laugh about it. A Japanese would not waste his time debunking nonsense. Oddly, they were unable to create anything in Africa.
@@yahschild9348 Tell us you know nothing about the Paleolithic without telling us. Pardon me while I catch you up to speed. You may find the need of chemical fortification to get the ol' neurons firing again after you spent so long baking yourself stupid, but it's good for you. Builds character. The use of fire predates modern _Homo s. sapiens._ Humans (of the _H. erectus_ flavor) were using fire at least a million years ago. Sapiens didn't show up until about a couple hundred thousand years ago, and white skin didn't evolve until about 40kya. There is no - count them, zero - populations of sapiens past or present that did not know about fire. Even the Sentinelese people, who arguably missed out on every single advancement since the invention of agriculture, have fire. Few people lived in caves. They had ritual purpose, but the vast majority of sites are found outside. You only think people lived in caves because you haven't updated anything since 1925, and they thought that then because of preservation bias and outright stupidity. But do you know how we know some of those caves were occupied by humans rather than just dumping grounds or predator caches, you evolutionary cul-de-sac? _Because of the soot on the cave ceiling._
Well the Japanese have wasted their time doing dumb things before so yes they would. Built a massive useless shop they wasted most of their budget on that the Americas then sank with little effort in its second fight. And they still revere what was a useless ship that even the Japanese soldiers thought it was useless. But also it depends on who you mean as the Japanese most think of aren’t the native Japanese. The native Japanese were pushed up to the north and some actually kind of look white, they look like a mix between Russians and Asians almost. It’s odd American gets slammed for that when most places had natives that were moved.
Seems evident that they have to create fiction to get a list high enough. And why is it always black inventions they talk about? Why not Asian or Hispanic? Does the black race need that much pandering to?
Also, a lot of these people were absolutely amazing individuals. Garret Morgan was an amazing man who invented a bunch of fire hoods and gas masks that saved thousands of lives and he's in the national fire fighters hall of fame. Instead they just completely leave all of that out.
When history is taught by poorly educated activists....you get the original video. Where they read the title of a patent and assume "invented" the whole thing and completely gloss over someone who really made a huge jump in quality of life for society or minimizes the actual contribution.
There is only one inventor. Improving an existing 'thing' does not make you the inventor. Should Steve Jobs be called the inventor of the phone because he improved on the functionality of Alexander Bell? Nope. When something comes into existence you are the inventor. When you improve something (for safety, efficiency or any other reason) you are not the inventor. Period. When Karl Benz (WHITE GUY) invented the car in 1886 it was very unsafe compared to todays cars. He is still the inventor of the automobile. We do not call Elon Musk the inventor of the car now, do we? Even though he made the car safer and suitable for todays regulations.
Ya, you should always look for earlier work no matter what patent you find. Even if it doesn’t say “improvements”, that doesn’t mean it’s the first. And worse, people go to “fact checking” sites which are all disinfo sites that refuse to update and correct blatant errors (we who research and dig and dig and dig and dig and dig and just try to get them to fix it and they never will on false “facts” they want you to believe, we prove this to ourselves all the time. Anyone who does real research can do it say in and say out as well. People who cite Wikipedia, or Snopes, or other such sites, or established “respectable” establishments and organizations which are in fact NOT irrefutable, or they who say “google it”…when they’re not doing any deep, just superficial research of crap to regurgitate, just like the person who posted what they found also did, they embarrass themselves constantly.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
My school used this video last February. We were asked to write a paragraph answering a question to win a prize, which was something like "why is it important to learn about inventors?" So I pretty much answered "that way videos like this don't get created" and after doing 3 hours of research also explained why almost none of the inventions were actually black invented. The saddest thing is that there are plenty of modern inventions created by Black Americans, like more specialized things, but these videos purposefully choose to use "common appliances" which are generally older than America. I didn't win the prize. :(
I don't know why they have to lie and say "SEE WE INVENTED STUFF" when they can be honest and say "we improved on things" which is equally commendable. You don't need to be the first person to do something to be worth of recognition.
I would actually argue that improvements are way more important than inventions, sure, thinking of something new that would help society is one thing, but thinking of something to add to the invention that the original creator did not think of is a completely different thing.
@@BB-1990 had stuff not been improving, we probably didn't have the internet right now, while eventually, the idea of a " communication line that connects everyone in the world" was already floating in the air. Both are important, but without improvements, world would have been a very, VERY different place.
Not only that, there are several investors that have come from black people over the years. Rather than making up stuff, then calling people racist for calling out the lies only diminishes real inventions and gives ammo to bigoted minds. Not to mention rewrites history.
I’m not even halfway through this video and I find it so sad. My ex fiancé‘s daughter came home from school one day and told me that a black man invented the lightbulb and not Edison. From a conservative town eighth grade middle school. When I questioned her about her findings, her mom asked me not to educate her. Hence the Ex.
@@patrickwilson6603Yeah, no. First thing first, you spell for shit but to the claims you made. Lattimer didn't invent the lightbulb nor did he extend the life of the bulbs. Edison's team did that on their own without Lattimers help. What lattimer DID do was come up with a production process that made the brittle filament less likely to break. Period. Edison stole the lightbulb itself from an entirely different white person that I can't recall the name of. Likewise. The 3 way stop light invention you're speaking of was a hand powered signal that only operated two ways. So keep gaslighting and lying mate. Some of what you said was even dismissed in this video itself.
@@patrickwilson6603 You're the only one making assumptions and presumptions here bruh. And as I already stated, Edison hired latimer for his production process. It didn't have anything to do with making the lightbulb or extending it's life. IDC what kind of revisionist history bs you're trying to pull but some people actually are perspicacious towards a subject. So I suggest you stop pretending to be smarter and better than everyone else and put your emotional impulsivity of a hormonal teenage girl aside when you speak to people. You're clearly triggered. I also said that Morgan created a "3way traffic signal" that wasn't actually three way and only operated by hand. You're the one who prior said he invented a three way traffic light, but because I clarified further on this topic I'm making presumptions? Gtfo here. You're the only one showing off your virtue signaling disease.
@@patrickwilson6603 Keep deleting comments, too, because I bet you went back and actually read my comments and realized you're trying to gaslight without even so much as skimming what I actually said. The gall and idiocy of this is astounding.
@@darkerdaemon7794 I have no idea what your comment is about suggesting that I am deleting comments. This should, I am not interested in what you think about my comments you consider virtue signing or gaslighting. And I did read your comments regarding Lattimer and my claim that the Edison bulb. I will conclude that you have not yet done the necessary work to get your hands on the topic. Have you heard of Harim Maxim? Are you aware of the lawsuit Edison filed against Lattimer for the patent? And then you claim that the improvements were made by Edison and his team not realizing that Edison Hired Lattimer to head up his lighting division and sponsored the publication of Lattimer book on lighting. Further information about what happened between Edison and Latimer can be found in Steve Mitnick book the first hidden figure. As to the traffic signal someone commented on the gas lamp that exposed in front of parliament in the UK as the first. But I will concede that point in the evolution of products over Time and the includes the evolution of the bulk that Swan contributed to before Edison and Maxim. This said, that type of signal was not in use in 1920 Ohio when Morgan invented the traffic light and the 3 way traffic signal that was sold to General Electric.
Instead of Buzzfeed lying about black inventions, they should’ve just focused on how awesome their mustaches were. Seriously those were some bad ass stashes.
The sad part about this crap is that black people and women have done great things in history but every bloody time they attempt to exaggerate or outright lie it actually has the reverse effect that they intended!
You know what, I would love to thank these people for their contributions however I rather credit them as individuals. I feel like their skin color has little to do what what they invented or innovated. I see scientists and engineers who saw an issue with something and decided to give it a shot to make it better or make it a reality. Also with that said, there are plenty of inventions and innovations that were invented by Asians, Hispanics, and Indigenous people alongside the many inventions that white people made as well. And I will rather we credit all those people individually as well.
The really sad thing is we think someone with the same skin tone as us is like earning points for our team or something. Like we're all living in some big racist Harry Potter movie.
@@paullangland6877 I completely agree - although it *could* be said that the purpose is rather to say that the cultures these individuals stem are not 'inferior' or 'holding them back' from achieving the same feats as others as some might say.
@@wheresmyeyebrow1608 I see your point and in a lot of ways, this proves that our modern world very much a meritocracy. I'm all for telling kids that regardless of their race, skin color, religion, national origin, and etc., that they can still accomplish great things and invent things the world needs.
What's even more crazy is, that all this madness with BLM and untruthful glorification of black people (like saying they've invented light bulb or that G.Floyd was gentle giant) is starting to negatively influence even previously race neutral folks. When they push too much, the opposite side will push back and I'm trully worried, more so with both covid and so called Green deal threatening to ruin middle class in EU, how this all will play out. Interesting times, but not in a way I'd be happy about...
@@Illtechnica What drivel are you uttering? It is a statistical fact that those of European descent are taller and physically larger than their counterpart. Hence why majorty of our strength based sports are domineered by Wyt mn... What's riveting is that skeletal muscles illustrate that Wyts have larger torsos, there a lower centre of gravity and this, higher strength.
Not only that, they did it ONLY within the framework of a European created society! They could never do anything close to ( any of these improvements) within their own collective! But most have zero gratitude for the relatively comfortable lives they have here in the West. And they’ve been absolutely a “ net negative”. If they weren’t so “ bragadocious” (sp) and instead humble, I’d have some sympathy. But they are the antithesis of humble OR ( quite frankly) MORAL!!! But they are comical, entertaining and smiley ( as I suppose, an offset to ruining civilized society).
@@Catherine-u8l It's important to recognize and appreciate the contributions of individuals from diverse backgrounds to the development of societies. While acknowledging the historical context, it's also crucial to avoid generalizations about any specific group. Constructive dialogue that values humility and mutual understanding fosters a more inclusive and respectful conversation. By appreciating the positive aspects of various cultures and recognizing the strengths and challenges within any society, we can work towards a more harmonious and equitable world for everyone.
follow and subscribed im working on something and asap im going to come back to rip him to pieces on his claims; people are so envious and jealous that all of our accomplishments weren't plagiarized and taken out of history it weakens their narratives lol oh well
"I dont know his race, sorry." Was like a slap in the face to these race grifters. "OMG you dont know his race? That's the most important thing about someone!"
@@reethreepio7220 It’s weird. It’s almost as if _any_ and _everything_ can be misconstrued as “offensive” and “racist”……as if division and hate is precisely the intended goal. LoL.
@@reethreepio7220 the buzfeed guy is also a lightskin phenotype. So He has some W ancestors. And at the end he says he hates himself jokingly. Surprise surprise.
@@the-based-jew6872 it's like the aboriginals here in Australia. The ones making the most noise are all 80% or more white.... I even seen one calling herself a WHITE ABORIGINAL who was offended when people asked her HOW MUCH she was aboriginal. "And that's offensive to us white aboriginals". Her friend was half Vietnamese half white, which RIGHT THERE showed she wasn't a black girl, and she complained that nobody asked her friend if she was Vietnamese when she was literally HALF Vietnamese and it was obvious as a result. I grew up in areas where aboriginals were 100% black, and when my family moved to the other side of the country, it was an eye opening experience in majority white people calling themselves black. Sitting there with their iPhone and Prius pretending to be tribal people....
Can we just...accept facts? Is that? No longer a thing? - No seriously though 10 years from now mark my words all textbooks will be opinions and emotional rhetoric as opposed to any objective measured anything. Facts apparently have taken a back seat, years ago. And it keeps moving back.
Science books that don't outright state that men have penises and women have vaginas should be banned or pull your kids from the school. Absolutely ridiculous that we are making up genders and nonsense to appease a small subsection of society.
Just accepting "facts" is what brought us here in the first place, We need to scrutinize literally everything today because somehow everyone is serving an agenda.
To all the people that are annoyed he's covering this, I must say that we cannot lie about history. We just cant. We need to preserve the truth, not what might feel nice.
I agree…that why I always say Islam is NOT a religion of peace. Historical facts, not to mention Islamic theological beliefs right out of the Koran, show that Islam is flat out evil and violent!
The saddest thing about the video referenced is that their no shame is improving a product that came before you, actually its a technological imperative. Most inventors stand on the shoulders of someone, and there is no need to lie about that.
100% agreed. without improvements on existing products, we wouldn't have had smartphones etc. We'd be stuck in time. I literally do this as a job; improving existing products to fit the needs of its users better. I don't call myself an "inventor". I'm a R&D engineer. I research and develop products. Almost nothing you make is a new product. It's either a combination of two existing products or an improvement upon existing products.
The thing that gets the most about the Lewis Latimer story is that, apart from the fact that he had nothing to do with inventing the commercial light bulb as we know it, is that his supporters always seem to frame his "work" as evidence that the scientific community was racist and did what it could to squash black inventors. Latimer shows just the opposite, actually. He was primarily an accomplished drafter. He was hired by and worked with Alexander Graham Bell and helped get the Bell's phone design patented in the nick of time. Because of his work with Bell, he was hired as a drafter and manager by Hiram Maxim, another titan of the age of science and industry, while Maxim himself was competing against Edison for a commercially viable lightbulb (It was Edison's patented discovery of carbonized bamboo that led to the breakthrough in lifespan that led to commercialized bulbs) and due to his efforts and his own designed patents he formulated while working for Maxim, Latimer was hired by Edison himself in 1884 to as a master draftsman and to aid in electric grid installation around the country. He later was asked to join Edison's highly exclusive Edison's Pioneers group in 1918. So rather than focusing on the fact that a highly intelligent black man who was the son of slaves managed to be hired and well-respected by three of the greatest inventors of the 19th/20th century, while contributing himself in certain areas, we're sold on accomplishments he didn't earn while casting those that saw and supported his clear genius and abilities as evidence of a racist system.
Anytime you have a usable skill somone will hire you.Thry obviously saw this man as smart and resourceful and worth hiring. It works the same today. This black man had no problem working for the man.And was rewarded for it
Well said, the truth is interesting enough on its own. History does NOT need the help of SJW. I bet this is the kind of crap they want to teach if CRT is allowed in schools. I'm black and my grandparents were born and raised in AL; they marched with MLK Jr and knew Rosa Parks personally. My grandmother was a teacher, and they taught us to be proud of our history, but not bigoted about it. It's infuriating to see truth "embellished" on to the point of mockery... especially when it's not necessary. Black History speaks & stands for itself; we don't need your help lefties!!
@@jameswebb4593 Several people contributed to the light bulb as we know it, Swan being one of them. If I'm not mistaken he added the vacuum aspect as well as other parts, working from arc lamps and other light giving devices from the decades earlier. Swan, if I'm not mistaken, patented a bulb first, but in England, and Edison soon followed with his own. However, Swan sold his patents to Edison, who took them and improved upon them. Nothing, however, had brought the light bulb to commercial practicality. They only lasted a few hours to a few days, tops. It was Edison's redefining of the vacuum process, combined with the discovery that carbonized bamboo made for the best filaments, that made the light bulb a commercial product, as he bumped the lifespan to 1200 hours. More modifications came after, including tungsten filaments, but Edison was the first to combine all the elements necessary to make a practical product.
That's what he gets for skimming his research in an unprofessional rush to scream "LOOK WHAT WE CAN DO!" instead of taking compiled, factual information and relaying it like an adept expert. Just like you did. Well done here, sir!
The guy disproved No.2 himself in less than five seconds. "Built a clock after studying his friends pocket watch", that's like saying you invented the ceiling fan after observing a friends desk fan
VERY TRUE, NICOLI TESLA INVENTED MOST THINGS WE USE TODAY, BUT HES NOT EVER GOT REAL CREDIT FOR BEING A GREAT INVENTOR, THOMAS EDISON STOLE CREDIT FOR MOST OF HIS SO CALLED INVENTIONS, EDISON WAS A FRUAD AND HACK, TESLA WAS THE FIRST TO GIVE A WHOLE CITY ELECTRIC LIGHTS, EDISON DID NOT DO THAT, BUT TESLA DID
Pocket watches evolved from watches, which evolved from mechanical clocks. So this guy saw a pocket watch and made a clock. It's the circle of (clock) life!
@@23names "NICOLI TESLA INVENTED MOST THINGS WE USE TODAY" No, he didn't either. Tesla was a tinkerer that just tried out anything that came to his mind - most things didn't work and he understood even less of them (he even claimed electrons didn't exist). He did help improve on many designs, but not eventhings like the dynamo were his invention despite the repeated claims of uneducated people.
@@ABaumstumpf NOPE YOU ARE WRONG, I HAVE DONE RESEARCH ON ALL OF THIS AND YOU ARE WRONG, LOOK IT UP, TESLA INVENTED MOST OF WHAT WE USE TODAY, IF HE WAS A TINKERER THEN WHY IS AN ELECTRIC CAR NAMED AFTER TESLA, ITS NOT CALL AN EDISON, YOU NEED TO DO RESEARCH TO KNOW YOUR FACTS
I can't believe I have to clarify this: to invent means to create or design something that, by implication, hasn't previously existed. Improving upon an existing product is a marvelous accomplishment, especially when it changes the way people use it. This fact, however, does not change the meaning of the word "invent." We cannot have a meaningful dialogue of we disregard what words mean and add meaning that doesn't belong there. I know that Andrew rubbed many people the wrong way with this one, but the video he's debunking isn't using the words correctly. That's not Andrew's fault. In the video, the young man actually references the "inventions" as improvements, but that's not the correct way to use the word "invention." If we don't push back on this kind of thing, then words will eventually have to definite meaning attached. Andrew isn't trying to avoid giving black inventors credit. To the contrary, he's trying to correctly reflect the historical facts. It's actually disrespectful to these black scientists and inventors to assign to them credit they did not earn and likely wouldn't want. I dunno how this occurred, but everyone REALLY needs to stop making up what words mean when they don't like the exist and previously universally accepted definitions.
@White Lives Matter! I get hated on enough for being white lately, I don't need ppl like you adding fuel to the fire. We need less ppl like you in the world.
The younger black folks who do stuff like this my question to you is " please explain to me how this helps blacks at all? " it just makes us look pathetic.
I’m blk but I’m in my 40s. None of it changes anything. It’s cool to learn about what blk people invented but the information needs to be accurate. Otherwise, videos like these have to be made and it gets very embarrassing. The left embarrasses us everyday with their nonsense.
I'm Italian and we jokingly call everyone Italian and say that pretty much everything was invented by Italians lol. It's just in fun for us. Seems serious with these buzzfeed types though. I agree that is embarrassing.
What amazes me the most is that African Americans in the 1800's were inventors and entrepreneurs. But today African Americans say they don't have the rights to do anything.
This makes no sense, you realize that just because someone accomplishes something doesn't mean they have rights that the Gov/White supremacy has to respect? Plenty of examples bud.
America: Where we complain about racism, but make videos about the success of skin color, for a skin color holiday, to celebrate and point out skin color. Let's go, Brandon!
How is that racist? How is celebrating a race contributions to society and their works disparage a race. And we not celebrating a skin color, but members of a social group. That actually a cosmospolitation policy which help people learn about each other history instead of the main history. So i ask again how is that racism
The weird thing is that the presenter could easily have pointed to almost all of these as instances where black men improved the overall functioning of society and contributed to American industrial progress. Instead he resorts to bogus claims which not only put black men on a false pedestal but act to tear down white men. He could use these examples to acknowledge the ability of any person in America to contribute to society and a common culture, if they are so motivated, and to build up and unify the entire nation. This is why the left is always so miserable. They live with perfect opportunities to unite and build common happiness but toss them aside in favor of division and hatred.
I love your content! It’s such a maddening time in US politics and it’s very appreciated that you make light and fun of it. Thanks for all your great research in everything you put out!
Even if one was genuinely more concerned about feelings (boosting self-esteem), such blatant lying and misrepresentation is going to result in far more hurt feeling when the truth becomes known. If you have constructed your self esteem based on a falsehood you were taught, learning the truth can be very painful. What I'm saying is that that kind of historical distortion (which was debunked in this video) doesn't even produce good feelings in the long run! It's another kind of opiate for the masses, not a healing medicine. If you identify first and foremost as a human, then you get to claim ALL human inventors as your heritage - and that's a more accurate reflection of the cultural history of innovation than genetic heritage is. Tribalism destroys that shared heritage.
I love how even the Buzzfeed guy couldn't claim that the refrigerator was straight up invented by a black guy because he knew it was that obvious of a bald faced lie if he had done so.
@@zacharybrooks9053 No, bald-faced lie is the expression. Bold-faced probably entered into use because bold still makes sense in context and we don't say bald-faced except in this one expression.
@@josephgaviota I stand corrected. A quick google search shows that they are both perfectly valid. Technically, “barefaced” is the most correct. Also, I contribute $5 a month to support Andrew. Hence the sick sticker. Probably not a Buzzfeed employee.
Thanks for your research. Sadly, most people would never question what was presented in the original video because they're afraid of being called racist. A more honest video about how black americans improved on certain inventions would have been the way to go but I guess that's not enough.
Making improvements to existing inventions and technologies is also an important contribution to human civilization, I don't understand why SJW media have to lie about it.
If I were deliberately setting out to divide people, I would make videos ascribing the contributions of one group to another. I think these videos are evil, thank you for debunking them.
The liar? Lol what like the contributions for and against slavery? Face the facts these videos are nothing but anti white propaganda. @@stevenlitvinchyk8867
@@TheChinBurton Without Allah, there would not been any slavery. Allah declared that those who did *not surrender their will to his* are worse than animals, and could be owned like life-stock. If Islam did not offer for sale human beings as living property, there would not have been the slave-trade to start with.
Holy crap! It's like he secretly hates black inventors and tried to deliberately sew misinformation about them while pretending to promote them. With friends like him, you don't need enemies.
Yeah, looking at that Union jack on your profile, makes me think that your english, they've definitely rewrote history among some other horrible things they've done in history LOL
@@thisismagacountry1318 so, patriotism conservatism has a lot to do with getting angry at every other group out there, so tell me why is it comfortable for me as a black guy to identify with mega Republicans conservatives, when there is a very strong white male orientation white nationalism and they're very strong white nationalist tinge. I can understand you guys getting upset at things, but there is a very strong white nationalism component with inside that that the political identity. Which is one of the reasons why African americans, which many have a conservative meaning, unfortunately vote Democrat 9.9% of the time that is sad, and it's because of something that you guys are doing, and as African Americans come it is very uncomfortable to vote Republican because you guys are running around over there.
@@drakependragon8439 Actually look, dude. People saying that Black people are stupid, ignorant savages because some random couldn’t credit properly. Anyway, Black history is extremely expansive. Of course, you’d actually have to pay attention first
ok, i see what they're doing. they're counting improvements as the invention itself while withholding critical information with the intent to mislead in not straight up lie.
@Total Victory Ministry Are you saying that blacks have contributed nothing to the development of the United States? Because history is a record of such deeds. No one argues that America did not have a dark past of slavery, but that does not mean that blacks did not contribute to the overall development of the US. So I'd say it's not right to segregate part of black history from American history. Not just have one month of black history, but the whole school year. Are you for or against segregation?
@Total Victory Ministry I don't know what I said hypocritically and how I cause endless division and violence, so I'd like you to explain it specifically. I agree that race is not purely visual, but also biological. However, this does not mean that they cannot live together under one culture, language and history, as the definition of a nation, it does not have to be related to race. "Clearly the vast majority of Americans including blacks have chosen to self segregate without the government making them do so." - "the founders made America for Whites only as the Declaration says clearly, for ourselves and our posterity and they did not give citizenship or voting rights to Blacks". Perhaps, but from white citizens and black slaves, the US has evolved to the same rights and one citizenship, regardless of skin color. It may not have been so in the beginning, but human society is evolving. There were people who wanted to keep slavery, and then there were people who wanted to abolish it, if the men of the north did not want to fight, no government would be able to effectively force them. There were various civic movements to end segregation and other racially based injustices, if the people did not want it, the government would not succeed. All this led to the integration of blacks into American society. Some nations are built on a single race, others are not, and I think the United States has been so far evolving into a nation bound by a common culture, not a race. And to return to the original topic, I think that the abolition of black history and the creation of a united American is another step towards a better society. I am not a government, I am one of the people.
@Total Victory Ministry You're pretty wild with those accusations against me. That I am a hypocrite, that I am causing all the endless division and violence, that I am parroting Marxist run TV stations, that I am "race baiter". I hope you can justify it, otherwise your arguments lose value. + I don't watch TV or news. You shouldn't make so many assumptions, especially if they don't turn out to be true. Did you know that Trump was the first Republican to have a record number of votes from minorities in 60 years? That something is today doesn't have to be tomorrow, and politics in America is shifting. In addition, as events unfold, many Democrat voters have moved to Republicans or Independents. You have a lot of substantial black votes that are not on the Democrats' side. But the truth is that most of them are still their voters. You wrote that "I will simply let the Black and White people of America speak for themselves about this". In America, in my opinion, there is a large part of the population that wants to abolish just such a division into races and establish one concept for all, the American. So let them speak and you'll understand where it's all going the whole time. The original comment: "I don't want a Black History month. Black history is American history." is from a black actor. *I honestly don't know what you're arguing about at this point, it looks more like you're either a troll or a person who doesn't know what he's writing about. So I would advise you to read the definition of the Nation, and if you do not answer with something constructive, and not with the accusations you have come up with so far, I will not answer. I hope someone will read this, it was quite interesting.*
The cringe of videos like the ones that you have to debunk, Andrew, is horrifying. But what is worse are those so seeped in things like the CRT movement that facts are horrible things to them, so they try to revise history.
The lunacy in all of this is that nobody "invents" something out of whole cloth. It is always taking the available tools and knowledge and extending one more step. Watt did not INVENT the steam engine, he took an existing idea and improved on it so radically it became practical. The Cell Phone did not string up from the waters of pure imagination in the 1980s, but was the next step in a long line of inventions including electricity and the computer processor. And THAT goes back even further.
of both of those videos none of them mentioned Lonnie Johnson, the guy who invented the super soaker. It's not the first water gun, i think, but this toy did indeed change the world of toys.
I just saw the term for this in a video by a professor of ancient studies (a Rome specialist). He was complaining about movies, TV shows and cartoons portraying Alexander the Great as black (black actor in the role). In a children's cartoon set in Roman occupied Britian, some of the Romans as south Saharan blacks and all the slaves in the cartoon were white. None were black. He objected strongly on historical accuracy grounds. He called it "Black washing" history. The video in question in this rebuttal video is blackwashing the history of invention and actually failing to give credit to black inventors in the process.
I'm so grateful for all these inventions and improvements. Everyone deserves to be acknowledged for their part but embellishing truth to make you feel good does a disservice to these brilliant people's accomplishments. Have pride in your personal life, you'll feel better 🙏🏻
@@stephentucker6548 But what if you are a person that has done absolutely nothing special with your time here on Earth, even though you live in the greatest, freest nation to ever exist? And further, what if you identify solely by your race or sex? The only way you could feel like your short blip of a life on this planet mattered was by pretending you are somehow connected to a person that looks a bit like you, but actually did something special with their life. Even if that person never knew you and lived hundreds or thousands of years apart from you. "Appropriation" indeed.
we waz kangs mk2 "we invented dis!" If these people were honest there are plenty of actual "black" inventors and innovators who should be praised for what they did but instead, we get blatant lies and idiots claiming things they didn't do. how about instead of spreading factually inaccurate stories like "roots" and this they stand proudly behind what they actually did accomplish and their real history.
@@sextuspompeius1266 Exactly what he just typed. Can you not read? Yes. Blacks started off stealing our bikes, now they want our culture and inventions. Pretty straight forward and obvious for anyone with a 3 digit IQ to comprehend. Are you confused about something?
That is a fun fact. But is it a true fact? Originally settled by Austronesians in the first century AD then by Bantu people in about the 9th century. So they discovered it after it had been discovered. A bit like the Americas
For starters, he never ever mentioned Ranch Dressing which was invented by a Black American cowboy named Steve Henson. I consider this as an atrocity since I absolutely love Ranch Dressing. Also the first traffic signal for cars was actually invented by a Police Officer named Lester Wire (but hey, he couldn’t say that because ACAB and saying “police did something good” would hurt his audience’s feels).
The first "electric" traffic signal to be precise. The first signals were used in England in the 1860's and were gas powered and human controlled until one blew up in a dudes face...lol
That would have been a great one to bring up because it is actually a common thing. Somehow he was so pressed for common things we use he went to fax machines and deadbolt locks before ranch.
I already debunked these, years ago. Vids are still on my channel. And, "Frederick Jones" didn't invent the portable airconditioner. They were already implemented and in use, 20 years earlier (by a white man, of course, as always). The Good Humor Ice Cream trucks had portable mechanical freezers (air conditioners) in the 1920s, 2 decades before "Frederick Jones" (who knows what his real name would be in his african noises), and, a white woman invented the idea of putting a fan inside the refrigerators to distribute the cold air to everywhere in the refrigerator, keeping everything inside the same cold temperature, thoroughout. If I look for 10 minutes, I'll probably discover that the ice cream scoop was invented long before that black dude's patent. ZERO black patent "improvements" were ever used or implemented, ANYwhere. "Lattimer's" process was never used, the "John Lee Love" pencil sharpener was never created by anyone, including "John Lee Love", himself. I debunked many other wakanda "inventions" on my vids about this topic. Basically, the reality is that, ZERO patents by blacks are used, anywhere, other than "ThermoKing", which, wasn't the first portable air conditioner. First portable air conditioner was INVENTED by a French man, in the late 1800s, 60 years before ThermoKang ever existed.
The thermostat bit was the part where i didnt know whether to laugh or cry, buzzfeed had a glaring opportunity to attribute an invention that fitted their video🤷♂️
A wooden clock hahahahahahah.I wonder what the Swiss would make of this.Maybe we should tell Rolex,Patek,Oris,Tissot,Breitling,Breguet,Tag Heuer,Longines,IWC and Omega.
LOL “then we’re locking everything up” Andrew: “No!” Oof that video definitely deserved a double head slap 🤦🏻♀️ so sorry Andrew. Loved the Simpsons reference!
Buzzfeed: “We’re just going to do some quick Wikipedia searches and throw something together, doesn’t matter if we get a couple things wrong, it’s not like… why do I hear boss music?”
Fun fact the average. "African American " born in America is 24% European. Aka they are mixed . The Average White person in America has at least 1% African ancestry. I just find this ironic.
If I were black, I'd be so damn insulted by pieces like the Buzzfeed video thinking I need to be complimented as a race. Not getting the compliment correct is the icing on the cake.
I was always fascinated by what spurred the creation of the invention. Necessity? Was it an accident? Some very cool stories behind a lot of things we use to this day.
The crazy thing is, some of the innovations here were actually huge deals but it's squandered by saying they invented it and moving on. How does "this black person totally outdid a white invention" not play into their color focused narrative enough? Just give people credit for the amazing things they did...
Because, realistically... They're probably aware blacks have invented very little... so they need to play up "black" inventions as though they've had a distinct impact on our lives today.
@@jasono2139 don’t try to quantity innovation. Fredrick jones improved the thermostat and opened the door for modern trucking refrigeration as Andrew highlighted. Just because there are fewer blacks and thus, fewer black inventors doesn’t mean their impact isn’t consequential!
@@drew4711 LMAO... 🤣 Where did I say their contributions aren't valuable?... Oh, that's right... I didn't. Doesn't change the reality that 99%+ of the modern inventions we have today were NOT because of "POC" inventors. Before the 16th century, virtually all innovation occurred in Europe and Asia which is why so many "POC" love to fetishize the few times people of their ethnicity actually accomplished something... even insignificant things like ice cream scoops. If someone decided to cover the great "white athletic" records in football, basketball, etc. while ignoring that most of the records were held by people of African descent... it would, rightly, look really pathetic.
@@drew4711 this is the same reason Neil deGrasse Tyson gets so much attention despite being no more interesting than 90%+ of academics. However... I'd say he's at least intelligent unlike pseudo-intellectuals like Michael Eric Dyson.
Or how about, let’s not attribute greatness with race, but rather class. All these “inventors” seemed like educated, hard working people who wanted to make their world a better place. Edit: I should have said culture, more on the nail than class.
I hate to tell you this, but early electrical systems, as in power plants and power distribution systems, were designed and constructed by people without any more than a high school diploma. My great-grandfather was a power plant designer. 🤣🤣🤣 And HIS father became a civil engineer building bridges and later an electrical engineer with only a high school education, too.
It's odd with all the woke black people out there who continue complaining about not being able to get work because of whitey and all these black inventors had jobs which spanned about 100 years in technical fields, starts making you wonder if it's not because of skin color but "attitudes" certian people have.
@@Jahn_Pah_Jonz Who gives a shyt English is not special there are thousands of languages older than English. White people did not invent the concept if language 🤣
These revisionists do a great disservice by getting the history wrong. Imagine the disappointment of people who actually study history expecting to see such 'facts.'
1 . Skin is the largest organ in the body, the brain uses ~80% of the genes in your body, so it stands to reason that there is a cross over in the genes used in skin colour and intelligence.
I’m surprised people still give their time to BuzzFeed. It’s nothing short of a woke propoganda site at this point, with low quality content to match. Great job debunking their stupid video! BuzzFeed is being disrespectful to these people they claim to honor, by misrepresenting the work they actually did. You did these inventors far more justice than BuzzFeed will ever do.
The video that this video is responding to is several years old. That buzzfeed video would have been during the twilight of their relevance when lies and absurd statements and policies were regularly being pointed out and made fun of on RU-vid. There have been several waves of platform-wide censorship since then, so that genre of video has become much less common.
Even as a teenager I never watched nor read BuzzFeed content. This propaganda that they spew will only further validate the ideologies that whit nationalist hold, it's having the opposite effect that they think it will have.
Lol, I love how for the clock guy, he just outright said that he had a pocket watch to work with. Like...not an inventor. Why was he on the list if the list could be hours long? Dude didn't invent anything at all, and he didn't even claim he did.
Why are we so obsessed with black inventions and not our country's inventions. As a proud American, im proud of all the Americans in this video who contributed building the modern world. 💪🏽🇺🇸
Because a certain political group wants to make you think that your skin, sex or who you have sex with has importance. They want to go back to a time when you as an individual does not matter but the things you can not change do. We are already seeing laws put in place favoring skin, sex and segregation... All under the disguise of being for good. The public believing this is truly a bunch of morons.
SAD FACT, as an Australian, a lot of "American firsts" I've seen..... I have also seen in Japan or germany 12 years earlier. When you hear something is an American first, we may already have it in stores here in Australia.
6:02 I love the idea that literally every lock was the exact same until this guy pulled up, I swear people act like lock picking and stuff is a NEW thing. Bro we've been stealing stuff forever.
What I would love to see is a video about actual black inventors done right to show Buzzfeed how it is supposed to be done. I have no problem highlighting what black inventors have accomplished, especially considering some of them actually faced significant discrimination in the past. Buzzfeed does such a disservice to this though.
i suspect that video would be short and limited to things like ketchup and mustard bottles that some random company used 20 years ago for 2 weeks until an actual better idea came along. how many of us think of a black invevtor when it comes to penut butter, not only is that insignificant but probably also not true
