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Originally Posted by DukeSkywalker
also for your inventor list they half to be 100% black. I picked a random name, jw winters & he's half black. 1/2 don't count.
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He was born in Virginia to an African-American brickmaker and a Shawnee indian
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The list is also inaccurate.
Just start at the top and take the air conditioning unit. He invented an air conditioning unit that was used on trucks to keep produce cool. He didn't invent air conditioning, that was done by Willis Carrier in 1902.
Patent for peanut butter was given to Marcellus Gilmore Edson when Carver was only 20 years old.
A black man did not invent the cell phone in 1945. etc.