Black Invention Myths Exposed - Volume One - Garrett A. Morgan and his Traffic Signal

gas mask invented by great john stenhouse in 1854 hair straightener invented by great marcel grateau in 1872 bulletball invented by great claude etienne minie in 1849 sewing machine invented by great englishman thomas saint in 1790 once again black history month has been rendered untenable diligent unaphorism unarticulate fake news propaganda plagiarism not supported by FACTS

Everything is so black vs. white with you. Do you know what that makes you? A racist.

"The white man did not invent anything until after slaves were freed." Really? You REALLY believe that. And what does this prove to you, if it were true? Which it's not. At all. Even a little tiny bit.

"Nasa was even baffled by how the dogon tribe knew about the rings on saturn before the telescope was invented." "I can care less if Nasa commented on the ishango bone. Several scholars have" Oh, okay. Because you'd mentioned NASA as part of your argument. Sorry. Anyways...when are you going to disprove this video? Never? Okay then.

I can care less if Nasa commented on the ishango bone. Several scholars have and commons sense would tell you that the entire bone is a coincidence. Whites have already exposed other whites rewriting history

It's funny how you're so convinced, but you look only at the evidence that suits your viewpoint, and you ignore any and all evidence to the contrary. But let's get back on point. You said "I can disprove your video." I'm still waiting for you to disprove this video, which has nothing to do with the Ishango bone, or prime numbers, or West Aftican knowledge of astronomy, or French scholar Count C. Volney, or anything like that. Disprove THIS video. That's what you said you'd do. Proceed!

Actually, there's no evidence that NASA had any comment on the Ishango bone. In fact, I personally went to Nasa dot gov, and searched there for Ishango, and there were no results found. I also searched NASA's website for Dogon, and only three results appeared, all from NASA's image gallery. A Google search of NASA and Dogon and/or Ishango produces no direct results from NASA, only speculations, and a video titled "Nasa baffled by N.W. African people!" Funny you used the same word, "Baffled."

The ishango bone is too perfect to be a coincidence....10+1, (10 * 2) + 1, (10 * 2) – 1, 10-1 This shows understanding of addition, subtraction and multiplication based on ten.The second row starts with three notches. It is then doubled to become 6. The same is done with the next number (4), which is doubled to become 8. The number 8 followed by 10 which halved to form 5. This is followed by 5 and 7.

.. The last row is a set of prime numbers between 10 and 20. These numbers are 11, 13, 17 and 19. The numbers in this row as well as in the first row are odd number. The sum of the numbers in the first and the last rows is 60. This can not be a coincidence.The sum of the numbers in the last row in the middle is 48. This implies that all sums are multiple of 12.

Lets not pretend that whites did not rewrite history for white supremacy. Of course scholars will disagree about the ishango bone being the first evidence of prime numbers because it does not go along with the lie that blacks did not have knowledge about anything. Nasa was even baffled by how the dogon tribe knew about the rings on saturn before the telescope was invented.

Dammit, I accidentally "Removed" your comment, mistaking it for the "reply" button. That's the problem with a 12.5" laptop screen and my increasingly poor vision. But you were saying that the Ishango bone is proof that TWA (Trans-western African?) people had knowledge of prime numbers. In the book How Mathematics Happened, it is argued that the development of the concept of prime numbers could only have come about after the concept of division, which is dated to after 10,000 BC.

There is no definitive evidence that the Ishango bone relates to prime numbers, or even mathematics, at all. Most scholars agree that the notches were there simply to provide a better grip on the stick.

People have ACTUALLY tried to claim that I've censored their "indisputable facts that disprove my video" in the past, when in fact they'd never even made a single comment. They used the fact that I hold comments for approval to try to say that their amazing revelations that prove me wrong were being blocked, and they'd never actually said a thing. Don't be like one of those people. I'm giving you the opportunity to prove this video wrong.

No, no no. It was the lizard people. Or the Q-men.

Really? Well I approve most comments. The only ones I censor are the blatantly racist and mean ones, so that throws your first argument out the window. So go ahead; Disprove away.

I can disprove your video but if your comments are held for uploaders approveal shows how biased you are.

Thank you. History is full of incredible inventors who succeeded despite all of the odds, and I hope that my videos inspire people to look beyond the myths and lies that were fabricated by racists to demonize others and divide us. The truth about black history is far more incredible and awe-inspiring.

None taken. I wonder, though, why you seem annoyed at the idea of this video? Nothing here serves to "discredit" anyone. The credit for the invention was falsely attributed. That's how these myths are perpetuated. I've regretted not delving more fully into the ACTUAL achievements of these inventors, but the video still accomplishes what it set out to do: Give credit where it is due. History

It's true! He did patent a safety hood. But it certainly wasn't the first of its kind, and it bore little to no influence on the further design and implementation of safety hoods or gas masks.

Not a single person of any color, nationality or creed has done anything to disprove the video. I'm still waiting, though! :)

Let me just say that that last line is not me thinking it was ok to own slaves. It's a bit from Louis C.K., and it's funny when you know the reference.

Thank you for sharing this. If you're not familiar with the work of Dr. Robert Felkin, MD (1853-1926), I'd like you to become so. Once you do, let me know what you think of his discoveries in Uganda? Thank you for your time and consideration.

That is true! It does show that "many ppl developed different aspects of traffic control devices." It also shows that Garrett Morgan did not invent the FIRST traffic signal. It also shows that his invention had no measurable impact upon the future development of traffic control systems. And that was the point of the presentation! To defuse the many myths, lies and exaggerations surrounding his inventions and legacy. Does that make ANY sense to you at all?

First of all, let me just say that your grammar and spelling are absolutely atrocious. Go back to school. Read a book. Where in this video does it say that black people haven't done anything? The only thing this video demonstrates is that Garrett Morgan was not the original inventor of the traffic signal, that his invention had no impact on the development of modern signaling devices, and that there are false claims attributed to his legacy. Would you rather just believe the lie?

So another video trying to tell blacks the have'nt done anything well well well not suprising Lewis Latimore inproved on Edison and Garret Morgan gets credit for the stop light and the gas mask beatit!

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas, Columbus' voyages led to the first lasting European contact with the Americas, inaugurating a period of European exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for several centuries. He DID discover America. For Europe. Who was not aware of its existence previously. But his greatest achievement was not that he "discovered" America, but that he stayed. Proof? Why do you think they speak Spanish in South America?

And could you tell me exactly how this video proves that this particular inventor was "far more intelligent than his white counterparts"? I haven't seen anything in this video that claims anyone was inferior or superior to anyone else, so I'm going to assume you're just seeing what you want to see. But please, show me how this video proves Garrett Morgan to be smarter than anyone else featured therein.

So this video proves that "this brother was far more intelligent than his white counterpart," and it ALSO provides "no actual proof" of anything? How is that possible? So it proves something that you want to be true, for YOUR convenience, but it proves nothing that you, on a personal level, disagree with. And why does it prove nothing? Because of "some documentation [I] could have found, or made." Made up, you mean? You couldn't go look any of this stuff up yourself, right?

the only thing you have proved, is the brother was far more intelligent than his white counterparts.. Anything else you THINK you have to prove?? Seriously, you have provided no actual proof.. Only some documentation you could have found, or made, for this purpose.. This is not a valid argument..

So, you mean, like the lies White people have told, all these years, about Columbus "discovering" America!?!?!?

I do believe blacks invented "flash robs".

@Richard - typical poster child of white propaganda and whitewashing. Nothing of significance found in Africa? Try papyrus, architecture, spiritual, political, economical, scientific and other sophisticated systems constituting high civilizations thousands of years before Homer's work ever made it to script. Kemet is purely an African invention before invaders conquered and raped it.

well jesus wasnt black santa clause is real (when your 5)&coloumbus was one of a number of explorers who stumbled upon the new world ! leif Erricsson viking warrior landed in northern america at the end of the dark age, sumerian cuniform was found on a dish in peru, so they & phonecians possibaly made landfall there too! pacifican peoples landed on west coast of S.america 1000's of y.a & of course the asiatic peoples who migrated over the bearing straits during the last ice age, whats ur point?

His safety hood was not the first, noe was it implemented in any other future designs. He did use it to save miners trapped in the Lake Erie Crib Disaster, back in the '20's, though.

What about his safety hood, love to hate instead congratulate.

Okay, maybe saying it isn't "even a little bit true" is going a bit far, because it is a little bit true. A tiny bit. But there's so much more to it than that and I think your comment undermines and minimizes Edison's actual contributions and achievements and overall awesomeness.

"Edison is given far too much credit for things which he literally did not invent. In point of fact, he personally invented little. He paid an army of REAL scientists to either invent new devices, or perfect those of others - then took all credit for himself" That isn't even a little bit true. Do you always talk directly out of your ass, or is this how you were actually taught?

So does this mean that "all" recorded black inventions are myths? The truth is important to uncover therefore I would go on to ask if there actually are any actual black inventions that deserve acknowledgement at all. Yes the advancements are ultimately for all mankind however the moment one chooses to focus on race with the myths the moment the whole topic becomes focused on race. Are we to conclude there are no contributions African Americans have made to mankind's development?

Jesus Christ wasn't "white" nor was he "black". Isralites of that time are not the same as modern day Isralites. It is stupid to assume a group of people that originally were from the middle east were always white. They were exiled from their homeland and went north into Europe. The reason why they are white now is simply due to racial mixing over that long period of time of exile. At best they were colored bearing in mind the middle eastern climate.

Yes, and it shows that Latimer's "contribution" to traffic signals was a giant leap backwards.

Now what, what?

Okay. Now what?

So, nothing in this video is true? Okay, tell us the real truth.

Oh, the truths have creeped up. They're right here, in this video.

You're obviously projecting your own inferiority complex since the video said nothing about inferiority.

Why? The subject of the video is the myth that Morgan invented the traffic signal. How is Columbus relevant? Yeah, I know, as a distraction from the fact that you can't refute anything in the video.

First of all it's "Latimer". Second an improvement is not the same as an invention. Third if we are talking about the light bulb filament, neither Latimer or Edison invented it. Joseph Swan of England had a rudimentary filament by 1860. Fourth Actual traffic lights existed before Morgan did anything with traffic signals and when he did produce a working signal it was not automatic.

The only 'problem' with the video is that it's accurate and it's screwing up the claim that Morgan invented the traffic light.

He proved conclusively that Morgan did not event it and that numerous other people invented and or improved it with multiple versions of the device before Morgan had anything to do with it. You are just being delusional. If you disagree what statement in the video was factually incorrect? Anything? Anything at all?

Because he read it on Wikipedia and heard it during black history month, so, Morgan invented it and no amount of facts are going to convince him otherwise.

Morgan didn't invent the 'gas mask'. He was beaten to it, at a minimum by John Stenhouse in 1854 and John Tyndall in the 1870s. Claims of Morgans invention generally list 1914 as the date of invention so he was about 60 years too late.