Greatest black scientists/inventors?

[Drip Bayless]

This website gives a pretty good list.
http://www.famousscientists.org/15-famous-black-scientists-in-history/
Anybody know in particular black physicists, or mathematicians who made great contributions in their field?

 

[mrken12]

The creator of the video game cartridge, Jerry Lawson

http://www.wired.com/2011/04/jerry-lawson-dies/

 

[WaveGang]

In all honesty all these black inventors and scientists dont mean shyt, these inventions were funded by white folks to advance white folks.

Just look at whats listed in the link, from 200 yrs ago til present day, these black folks were employed by white companies/people... i.e. Nasa, Thomas Edison etc

Dr Umar put me on to this. Props where props is due

 

[KOohbt]

In all honesty all these black inventors and scientists dont mean shyt, these inventions were funded by white folks to advance white folks.

Just look at whats listed in the link, from 200 yrs ago til present day, these black folks were employed by white companies/people... i.e. Nasa, Thomas Edison etc

Dr Umar put me on to this. Props where props is due

It's the brain drain, breh. They farm our best for their benifit. Whether is be stem, art, agriculture, athletics etc. And leave regular black folks to somehow compete with not only white folks money and our money but also white folks intellectuals and our intellectuals. It's so demonic, friend.

 

[WaveGang]

It's the brain drain, breh. They farm our best for their benifit. Whether is be stem, art, agriculture, athletics etc. And leave regular black folks to somehow compete with not only white folks money and our money but also white folks intellectuals and our intellectuals. It's so demonic, friend.

Yeah, you understand what I'm saying.

I'm just kicking the real to The Root.

 

[Drip Bayless]

In all honesty all these black inventors and scientists dont mean shyt, these inventions were funded by white folks to advance white folks.

Just look at whats listed in the link, from 200 yrs ago til present day, these black folks were employed by white companies/people... i.e. Nasa, Thomas Edison etc

Dr Umar put me on to this. Props where props is due

Well yeah, they were funded by white people, I don't see how developing a prototype for open heart surgery or the first blood bank advances only white people though.

 

[WaveGang]

Well yeah, they were funded by white people, I don't see how developing a prototype for open heart surgery or the first blood bank advances only white people though.

was open heart surgery available to black people then? no

was the first blood banks open to black people then? no

these in inventions were to advance the dominant society

 

[Apollo Creed]

It's the brain drain, breh. They farm our best for their benifit. Whether is be stem, art, agriculture, athletics etc. And leave regular black folks to somehow compete with not only white folks money and our money but also white folks intellectuals and our intellectuals. It's so demonic, friend.

we brag about sending our best and brightest to PWIs, imagine if our Top Athletes and Scholars went to Private HBCUS
Imagine Howard U destroying Duke in B Ball, and Tuskegee dragging Alabama

 

[Drip Bayless]

was open heart surgery available to black people then? no

was the first blood banks open to black people then? no

these in inventions were to advance the dominant society

First, those processes and buildings were segregated, so they were open to black people, albeit at a lower quality, like education. Second, how can you invent open heart surgery for white people? Those factors were entirely out of their control, the people invented something and their inventions, discoveries were misappropriated to give whites an unfair advantage. People who make scientific strides make them with the intent of improving the field. Unless it was an invention or discovery solely designed to improve quality of life only for whites, your point is invalid.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Emmit McHenry. The real father of the internet....... nikka should be Bill Gates status....... but you know how nikkas get played

 

[WaveGang]

First, those processes and buildings were segregated, so they were open to black people, albeit at a lower quality, like education. Second, how can you invent open heart surgery for white people? Those factors were entirely out of their control, the people invented something and their inventions, discoveries were misappropriated to give whites an unfair advantage. People who make scientific strides make them with the intent of improving the field. Unless it was an invention or discovery solely designed to improve quality of life only for whites, your point is invalid.

I cant imagine black people getting free health care back in the day, them buildings were not open to blacks. "No Blacks, No dogs" the sign would read

you think black people had access to open heart surgery 100 yrs ago? cmon'son, that kinda of medicare was exclusively for rich white folks

The inventions are funded by white capitalists to further benefit their own agendas which do not involve the advancement of black people.

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I pretty much gathered you was gonna take my comments personal because this is your thread, and feel offended. I was gonna apologise in a previous post but I thought, "naaa he wouldn't be like that, he'll appreciate the knowledge".

 

[3rdWorld]

How far back do they go? because we been inventing shyt for thousands of years now..

 

[Drip Bayless]

I cant imagine black people getting free health care back in the day, them buildings were not open to blacks. "No Blacks, No dogs" the sign would read

you think black people had access to open heart surgery 100 yrs ago? cmon'son, that kinda of medicare was exclusively for rich white folks

The inventions are funded by white capitalists to further benefit their own agendas which do not involve the advancement of black people.

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I pretty much gathered you was gonna take my comments personal because this is your thread, and feel offended. I was gonna apologise in a previous post but I thought, "naaa he wouldn't be like that, he'll appreciate the knowledge".

Breh no one is taking anything personal. Why does everybody get so tight about debates here? Neither of us have insulted each other and a disagreement of opinion on a matter like this is not enough to offend me. Anyways, Provident Hospital and Training School in Chicago was the first hospital owned and opened for black people and it was opened in 1892. I will agree with you that the quality of services was lower, due to more limited resources, past this point it's entirely speculation, because I can't really find any resources on this, yet if a black surgeon developed open heart surgery, I'm speculating that it would be available, albeit on a much more limited and inferior scale, to blacks.

 

[Blackking]

 

[WaveGang]

Breh no one is taking anything personal. Why does everybody get so tight about debates here? Neither of us have insulted each other and a disagreement of opinion on a matter like this is not enough to offend me. Anyways, Provident Hospital and Training School in Chicago was the first hospital owned and opened for black people and it was opened in 1892. I will agree with you that the quality of services was lower, due to more limited resources, past this point it's entirely speculation, because I can't really find any resources on this, yet if a black surgeon developed open heart surgery, I'm speculating that it would be available, albeit on a much more limited and inferior scale, to blacks.

Even today if you don't have private healthcare you wouldn't be entitled to certain procedures.

Look how much open heart surgery costs today , you really think this was available to black people 20 yrs after the end of slavery

6.Open Heart SurgeryCost: $324,000


With heart disease as the leading cause of death in the U.S. at 26%, open heart surgery is a more common procedure than may be expected. Part of the high cost of open heart surgery is because it's often an urgent medical procedure that is usually followed by complications. Longer care and follow-up needed after surgery add to the price tag.


Read more: http://www.investopedia.com/financi...pensive-medical-procedures.aspx#ixzz3c2K5g7wU
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Like I said, these inventors were funded by white capitalists, to further the capitalist agenda.

On the grand scale of things, the fact a black man who was employed my a white man to create something. Whether it be a traffic light, internet, mop etc doesn't impact the advancement of black people.

Now when you talk about an inventor like the Prophet Marcus Garvey, who invented the first and biggest black owned and self financed company in the history of the world. Then imma hear you out, coz that definitely impacted the advancement of black people