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 Poet Kamal brings the knowledge with the poetic flow. <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!
