Thomas L. Jennings - First African American to hold a U.S. patent. The patent, which was issued in 1821, was for a dry-cleaning process.

Norbert Rillieux - he developed an evaporator for refining sugar, which he patented in 1846

Benjamin Bradley - he developed a steam engine for a war ship. Unable to patent his work, he sold it and with the proceeds purchased his freedom.

That was just a few of a long list of black inventors.

Here are a few black scientist.

Benjamin Banneker - Banneker learned the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic from his grandmother and a Quaker schoolmaster. Later he taught himself advanced mathematics and astronomy. He is best known for publishing an almanac based on his astronomical calculations. 1731 -1806

Rebecca Cole - Cole was the second black woman to graduate from medical school (1867). She joined Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first white woman physician, in New York and taught hygiene and childcare to families in poor neighborhoods.

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams - he received his M.D. in 1883. He founded the Provident Hospital in Chicago in 1891, and he performed the first successful open heart surgery in 1893.

Link for this -

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmscientists1.html

Link for black writers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofAfrican-Americanwriters

Link for black composers(descent)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofcomposersofAfricandescent

Link for black Astronauts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listofblack_astronauts

I put those links there because clearly these people have an IQ higher than 80 or whatever. Keep in mind that these nothing more than a small mount of intelligence black people when looking for how many there actually are. If black people intelligence are truly low then these people must of geniuses easily.

Here are some random quotes on the matter from average people.

"While I agree genetics plays a part in the results, the environment in which one grows up in plays a huge part as well. Any child, regardless of race, living in the suburbs, will probably score higher than a child who lives in an urban city, on average. The schools are better funded, the children have access to larger variety of study materials, and they usually don't have as many issues at home to contend with. "

"My step father, who is white, is highly intelligent, and even he used to say that he was lucky to have the money that he grew up with. He used to say money can buy a better education, better neighborhoods and even better outlook on life. By your logic,if you have a white artist and a black artist, then you'd assume that the white artist is always going to be a BETTER or more brilliant artist than the black artist?"

1. now a days racism plays no part in education(most of the time).

2. Education and intelligence are not equivalent what so ever. I don't know where that ideal came from but it's laughable.

3. Most if not all IQ tests are not relevant to measure someones intelligence level. e.g. if a guy who lived in a jungle his whole live can't understand the test then the test is useless. Furthermore if that guy can't at least score a 90 then the test isn't accurate. Do to the fact that it take some intelligence to survive on your own without anyone teaching or passing down knowledge to you.

(if you do not think that it takes intelligence to survive as the guy in my example is doing, then your ideal of intelligence is clearly off and your most likely talking about education(smarts), this is common.)

4. For crying out loud, this guy is an editor. With that said he does have much credibility, still I will reserve from calling him a racist even though that's what it seem like(because he's an editor with no PHD talking about such a subject). I doubt he can find any group of PHD graduates that can back him up what he is saying. If he can get the black PHD graduates to agree with him, than my mouth is shut. Lola

5. What this guy (and anyone who agrees with him)fail to realize is that environment plays a BIG role in education. e.g. The real reason Jimmy doesn't do good in school is because he feels like math, science or history will not help him survive life at home or in his area. He doesn't see education as a way out.

Plus the studies it's self don't account for cultural influences.

6. He's examples are more then 5 years old making it irrelevant to even be a creditable source in the academic community. Wow one look at the reference, every one of them sources are out dated there's even one from 1974.... really?

7. At some point you should ask yourself, why is an editor making a video about something nowhere near his field of profession. A guy who clearly doesn't know how to correctly use sources on a academic level, which means all of his sources could of been dis-proven by now and even at the time the video was made. So what is his angle with this?

People find a more creditable source on the subject than this guy. Because this only looks like a joke to me.

Check the argument below to see my full statement... double send.

It's fiction based on facts.

as Winston Churchill puts it - "History is written by the victors."

A very wise but bold statement.

Back when i was an Atheist (just don't care for labels), I became one from reading the bible and finding problems within it. Plus I wanted to know the devil's side of the story. Since I was coming to my own conclusions on things, there were things I was embarrassingly wrong about and other that were good. I was about 19 years old and at that time I've ever heard of Atheism. So there was no one challenging my beliefs but me.

I use to come up with crazy theories (and I still do) like [the reason babies have a hard time learning how to walk, is because they are not use to the earth's rotation yet. Babies that can stand seem to fall in a way that a kid does after spinning around, maybe the babies mind sees the world spinning like if you were on laughing gas and the room begins to spin.] as you can tell, this was an insane ideal.

Even though you said Atheist, I do agree that people don't think that much, some just use regurgitated information for the sake of being "right" or seeming smarter. Which leads to little to no new ideals on a subject. By the way like how both answer chooses are "True" lol

In my opinion, pain is a way for us to know the condition of our bodies. e.g. without pain, walking into fire would damage our bodies but we wouldn't be aware of it. With pain we learn fairly quickly why we shouldn't walk into fire. All though pain isn't something we all like, it's still something that keeps us alive.

Just think how much easier it would be to die without pain.

It's useful.

also without pain, the sense "touch" would have to go as well by default.

I don't agree that "all Americans" should learn Spanish, but I think it would be wise for Spanish to be learned in schools. If so, this should improve students knowledge and understanding of languages and different cultures. Not to forget that Spanish is the language of our neighbor country(Mexico), so that might be useful. Also please note that I am saying that schools should teach it for knowledge sake not from a reaction to immigration.

Your "North Carolina to China vs a Spanish speaking person/immigrant to American" is a bad example.

1. Reason being is that traveling from N.C. to China, you will encounter many languages besides Chinese(So expecting English is foolish ) but traveling from (most likely) Mexico to America and expecting Spanish is not that unreasonable.

2. Keep in mind that some of the U.S. was Mexico while none of China was the U.S. More info on that --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Cession