Black Man: Founder of the Cell Phone

we need more entrepreneurs and MORE college grads filling the ranks of their jobs. I know college goes down in flames around here sometimes (who woulda thought that, given the low rates of bm graduating), but the bottom line is that many of those jobs in IT, business, whatever, require you to have a degree. Once that starts to happen, the face of america will change.

 

I agree to an extent. The more education brothers have the better in my book, but there are plenty of people of all races that have degrees and positions but aren't bringing anything to the table. They're just holding a position. I see too many people like that holding positions and people with genuine drive and creativity to bring something positive to a position get overlooked because they don't have a degree. Brothers need to be steping up their creativity and ingenuity skills to go along with their college degrees for those positions they get in order to change the game and not just be satisfied with holding a well paying position. Just my two cents.

 

both are right. we are way too fascinated with rapping and dancing and that type of bullshit or dunking a basketball. hell white folks are guilty of it too. we spend our tax money on building a football stadium and then say we have nothing for education. WTF

 

Until the black community get back to what it once was in that "Once Upon a Black America" when education ruled with the likes of George Washington Carver, Charles Drew, etc.... and the determination to leave for our children and grand children a better stand to continue the fight through education, we as a race will stay at the bottom of the social order. There is more to this life than being a damned entertainer and sports figure.

 

I asked numerous people if they know anything about this black inventor and the answer is no. I was in Baltimore last week and went back to my old high school CARVER VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL and all the technical instructors I talked to said "no" that they never knew this. I student in the electrical program made the comment, "when one does not know what their contributions are as a race the easier it is to control them". Says a lot about education in so-called black history programs. What until next year's Black History Month and see if this is even mentioned.

 

that's very true

the information age is a godsend for all of us. We can share our knowledge with each other and open eyes. Time to stop living in someone else's shadow, brothas.

 

So true. This is an unprecedented time for the black male to be whatever he wants to be. My father would only dreamed of such a time back in the 1940's.

 

true and false. back during slavery and afterwards it was against the law for blacks to know how to read so they taught themselves. the ones who learned taught others. I even heard that there were blacks that only had a 7th or 8th grade level of learning were teachers. the thing is the little they had they gave. the little they received built a foundation of progression. now especially in the post civil rights era it was and sometimes still uncool to be smart.

now we are own worst enemies

 

Goodlove, you make some good points. There is an anti-intellectual movement within black society today. You read then you want to be white. You go to school then you want to be apart from your race. You want to better yourself then you think you are better than others of your race. This is in my mind the greatest threat toward progress as a race and as a society. As I research more on the establishment of black colleges and universities I'm astounded on what blacks with little did in those days to create the black places of learning like Howard and Hampton Universities. Tomorrow I will be seeing someone here at Hampton University concerning getting Mr. Henry Sampson here as a guest speaker. I will forward a package on Mr. Sampson to the University President so that this man's accomplishments is known to all students of Hampton University.

 

this anti movement stems from the idea that many blacks aren't aware of their contributions, with respect to the academic process. Blacks have made intellectual contributions in medicine, engineering, nursing, etc etc, increasing the size of the academic pot. Acting 'white' means acting black, arab, asian etc, because white people like everyone else, gathered knowledge from others. It just seems like it's theirs, but it's just a grand compilation. If more blacks knew that, I don't think they would have a problem.

 

no doubt. the other thing is sit around with other people of other races and you will get knowledge.

the best thing a man can do in his life is sit around people smarter than him and listen

 

My God you are so right. I remember something Tennis Great Arthur Ashe if I'm spelling his name correctly here, he said, "when african americans put as much effort into education as they do in to sports and entertainment we will witness another american revolution". Today we have the Internet and the computer that can truly liberate us in ways that our ancestors in the slave corridors never had. We can create a new american revolution in life-long learning today and be the beacon of hope for others the world over.

 

Excellent. History is replete with examples of people who had the best brains around them. Malcolm X once said that you should never be afraid of those smarter than you. You need to know how to use them to help yourself.

 

According to the editors of about.com:

 

well there are studies that show that cell phones causes cancer (per W.H.O.) so Im sure when it is concrete they WILL say a black man invented the cell phone and it is the BM's fault for the rise in Glioma

 

True.

 

My creed as a black man and what I will pass on to my son is that "I can be anything I want to be and I will never let anyone tell me what I cannot do". This will also hang over the entrance to my school someday.

 

THIS i knew about the supersoakers!

Wow had no idea about the cell phones. Good find

 

Thanks for that link.

 

This is great info but of course you know they dont want to give us credit for jack shit.