Comments on: Black Invention Myths

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:37:00 +0000

What difference does it really make….who ever is the prodominate work force will be more than likely to make and change modern conviences. Also if you please check your histroy or have family or friends from the south it was very common practice to steal inventions from the oppressed…..I am sure that individually people come forth and give testemony of family members passed down generations of what was contributed the way we do even today.
I am sure if doing enough back-ground research on all people involved individually the truth will serfice. I think the worse thing in all this is to be born from so much racial (mix) diversity and to be seprately discredited as a people. The more diverse you are the more American as apple pie you are. Forgive the grammer and spelling …..It is so hard to believe how unknowing people are…..Simple do research about the old south or even talk to people who have a rich background of knowledge from there! God bless

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:30:08 +0000

My Question to you guys –

(1) Why do these black websites – Blatantly Lie
(2) Why does the Media Cover-Up the above Lie. When a simple Internet Search Can reveal the “truth = real inventor”

Thanks

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:28:05 +0000

I think another way they create the myths is by claiming some inventor is african-american
when they really aren’t.
An example is Ernst Matzeliger who invented the shoe lasting machine.
His father was dutch engineer and his mother a native black Surinamese
which is south american. Ernst was born in south america so he is really
half european and half south american.

By: Tchemovsky

Tchemovsky — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:11:16 +0000

If you read you would understand how the Spanish, French, British and Americans took advantage of the Island when it was not so poor. Even now with the earthquake the Americans did not help much aside from their American propaganda with inflated budgets .

Take Panama´s economy that only took off when the Americans left. Don´t be so ignorant and get the facts. If the blacks are creating myths you are living one.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:31:44 +0000

I had no idea that Negroes were credited with so much innovation.

Romer,

I was watching a black film the other day called Stomp the Yard and could not help but notice all the main characters had “white names”, i.e, April, Grant, etc.

Its also clear that the director of the film wanted to portray all the main characters as educated and with distinct European facial features. Is this because a certain number of Negroes are starting to realize the superiority of the culture they find themselves in, namely Western society (whats left of it)? If this is the case I applaud them for their honesty, even if it is indirect.

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:39:49 +0000

Mr. Romer, forget the racial intermixture percentage as somehow being the basis for these inventors putative successes. Firstly, the article corrects the record about black ingenuity, which is, for lion’s share, a fabricated myth. Secondly, the 17-20% white hybridity does not necessarily affect intelligence at all. Nor, does it provide straight-line average IQ between the two races. Genetic hybridity doesn’t work this way. Despite the repetitious chorus from corporations and academic multiculturalists claiming heterosis (hybrid vigor) is a marvelous strength, in reality it (miscegination) isn’t one at all. In botany, where the term “hybrid vigor” originated, it can be argued, when all traits are considered, that hybrid vigor doesn’t exist at all. In humans and animals, there is certainly no evidence of it existing. The exact opposite appears to be the rule and is known as “hybrid inviabilty”, which is the observation of hybrids having inferior overall health to that of their parents. This is inclusive of mental health and intelligence as well. So, don’t fall for the erroneous belief that white intermixture provides a smarter black. It doesn’t work that way. And, is a genetic gamble producing inferior offspring.

By: Steven E. Romer

Steven E. Romer — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:21:03 +0000

Hengist makes a great point. I was thinking that all through the article. The other thing I was thinking is that what percentage of white genes did these folks have? The average for the USA is around 17-20% white I think. Maybe they just got the right 20% and also were immersed in the white culture of truth and innovation we naturally make.

Worse than all this is the blatant shaping of our perceptions of blacks on TV and in the media — on Nickelodeon they show black kids in some shows who are the smart “techies” of the students. Then there is the Steve Irkle character from another television show. Movies too show black “scientists” saving the day such as the movie “Evolution”. Never mind that Africa did not even have writing, let alone schools or universities until we came along. We should always judge a people by what they do when left to themselves, or when they have power. Look at Haiti or Zimbabwe…

By: Hengist

Hengist — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:52:38 +0000

Why is it, that black genius and invention, only occurs in White countries?
Why were/are there no black geniuses and inventors in black countries?

By: wodinaz

wodinaz — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:09:44 +0000

Mein Gott! Do you mean that the American media spew out these blatant lies on regular basis? Or just this particular month?