THINGS THAT MAKE ME GO HMMM!

Black is an adjective, adverb, color, and noun

You So Black by Theresa Tha Songbird

130 years ago, inventor, Granville T. Woods patented the electric railway system.

On November 10, 1891, the U.S. Patent Office issued Patent #463,020 to Granville T. Woods for his electric railway system. It was just one of the 60 patents that was issued over the course of his career as an inventor. Born to free African-Americans in 1856, he became known as "African Edison”. Woods invented 15 new technologies for electric railways, including the troller, a grooved wheel that allowed streetcars (later known as trolley cards) to pick up power from overhead lines. He also invented the “third rail” power pickup currently used by many electric transit systems. Woods was successful in selling many of his inventions to General Electric, Westinghouse and Bell Telephone.

#Reparations NOW!

Jewish holocaust victims were allowed to be seen as VICTIMS and so they REMIND their children of who and what victimized them. People of African descent are blamed for their own oppression and that blame, and subsequent shame, makes them hide their history from their children unless the oppressor tells the story from his point of view. We are quick to say that "we are our own worst enemy" because people who have been denied the humanity and dignity of identifying their oppressors think they did it to themselves.