2024-04-26T22:43:28Z http://iplanethiphop.ning.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=history&rss=yes&xn_auth=no tag:iplanethiphop.ning.com,2017-01-27:2042258:Video:42323 2017-01-27T12:47:42.690Z Kamal Imani http://iplanethiphop.ning.com/profile/KamalImani

<a href="http://iplanethiphop.ning.com/video/spoken-word-black-inventions-kamal"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1941989842?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>Check out Black Inventions and find out how so many things that we use today and take for granted was created by African Americans.<br></br> <br></br> Spoken Word Lyrics:<br></br> You could call me on my cell phone<br></br> An If you do your research it aint hard to tell<br></br> That a Black Man Henry T Sampson invented the gamma electric cell<br></br> And Shirly Ann Jackson PHD, made the…

<a href="http://iplanethiphop.ning.com/video/spoken-word-black-inventions-kamal"><br /> <img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1941989842?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />Check out Black Inventions and find out how so many things that we use today and take for granted was created by African Americans.<br /> <br /> Spoken Word Lyrics:<br /> You could call me on my cell phone<br /> An If you do your research it aint hard to tell<br /> That a Black Man Henry T Sampson invented the gamma electric cell<br /> And Shirly Ann Jackson PHD, made the caller ID, Call Waiting and the touch tone phone.<br /> The Black Inventor Gerald A Lawson Rocks, he invented the console for the Wii, playstation and X box.<br /> We rock, glasses at the movies, Marc Hannah made it easy for us to see flicks in 3D!<br /> Putting that butter on popcorn, don’t forget your favorite dip.<br /> As we give thanks to George Crum, for making those delicious potato chips.<br /> And to make sure your snacks don’t start decaying, Frederick M Jones invented mobile refrigeration.<br /> Now I’m all the way up, tell this to the haterz<br /> A black man, Alexander Miles made the modern elevator!<br /> Jay Z, 50, Weezy, Meek Millz, Rick Ross, Nikki, Drake who’s the best?<br /> Give props for the makers of the mic Gerhard Sessler and James West!<br /> In Jordans, Ewings, Timbs, Gators we wanna be seen<br /> Made easily with Marzeligers shoe lasting machine<br /> ***THE CREATIVE MIND IS IN YOUR DNA, LET’S GIVE IT UP FOR THE BLACK INVENTORS TODAY!<br /> We got Percy L Julian – scientist, known as the forgotten genius<br /> He invented the “process of synthesis”. His work led to birth control and cortisone improvements.<br /> Most of us don’t like needles, but we give thanks<br /> To Charles Drew who created the blood banks<br /> Patricia Baths a sister you must know<br /> She made the laserphaco, a laser cataract probe<br /> We got Phillip Downing with the mailbox<br /> George Washington Carver<br /> Here’s a few things he made with the peanut:<br /> Flour, soap, skin lotion, shaving cream, paper, wall board, woodstain and much more nah mean?<br /> And when the trains weren’t running on the track smooth and clean,<br /> Elijah, the Real McCoy made the railroad lubricating machine.<br /> We made the cardiopad and the spectrograph, the traffic light and the gas mask<br /> When you really think of it, it will make you shake and shiver<br /> Just how much your infinite mind can deliver<br /> We could go on like the upward flow of the Nile River<br /> Just don’t forget those NASA sisters from Hidden Figures!<br /> And they’re not alone<br /> So let’s talk black facts, when you call me on the cell phone!<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Spoken Word Poet Kamal brings the knowledge with the poetic flow.