Black Inventors

The Liturgists Podcast

The Liturgists

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

From George Washington Carver to Dr. Shirley Jackson, from the pyramids to rock & roll, from rockets to the moon to home security systems, black inventors have discovered and created new ways to do things all throughout history. Culture can sometimes relegate these highly intelligent people to the footnotes of history, but we would be remiss not to celebrate these giants whose shoulders we stand on. Let's talk about black inventors. To support this podcast and the other projects of The Liturgists head to https://theliturgists.com and find the button that says "Join The Liturgists." You'll join a group of amazing members who talk and get special content weekly.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the liturgist podcast.
0:04.4	You are now listening to Black History is American History.
0:22.4	I'm William Matthews.
0:23.4	Hey, I'm propaganda.
0:24.4	I'm Nikki Black.
0:25.4	And I'm Andre Henry.
0:27.7	Today's moment in Black History.
0:29.6	Black Inventors.
0:32.7	So there's like a running joke in our house between me and my wife and my kids where it's
0:40.5	like it's a joke but I'm kind of serious.
0:42.5	That, no matter what's happening, I will give a little tidbit that it probably came from
0:50.1	Black culture.
0:51.1	Like I just have this belief that all things came from Black people at Black culture.
0:54.8	We're talking about.
0:56.3	This is probably came from Black people.
0:58.0	It's mostly true.
0:59.0	How true?
1:00.0	Okay, give me some examples.
1:02.2	Some things we wouldn't know that have come from Black people.
1:05.2	Oh, Dorsey invented the doorknob in 1878.
1:09.6	Wait, a Black person invented the doorknob?
1:11.4	The doorknob.
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