BRACE YOURSELVES: BIZARRE RANT AGAINST PRIVILEGE, IS COMING. (I KNOW NO ONE WILL READ THIS YET ITS MARGINALLY ENJOYABLE TO ASSEMBLE MY DISPARATE EGOISMS.); AND REALLY BELIEVED IN THE PRECEPTS OF SCIENCE BECAUSE SOCIETY SAID SO... SO WHY AM I LECTURING ON BIDENS CLAIM THAT, 'A BLACK MAN' INVENTED THE LIGHT BULB? I'M AN OLD WHITE PRIVILEGED PERSON AND LEARNED HISTORY WELL ENOUGH IN A PRIVATE SCHOOL, AND HAD A CAPACITY FOR LEARNING GENERALLY FROM MY INTELLECTUAL FAMILY, WELL BIDEN WAS NOT
PULLING AN AL GORE
(WHEN HE FAMOUSLY
CLAIMED THAT
HE HIMSELF
HAD INVENTED
THE INTERNET);
BIDEN WAS
IN CONTEXT
EXPRESSING
DISSATISFACTION
ABOUT OUR
EDUCATIONAL
SYSTEM. SO BACK TO THE LIGHT BULB. I VERY DISTINCTLY RECALL LEARNING WHEN I WAS YOUNG FROM WHATEVER SOURCE, THAT THOMAS EDISON HAD INVENTED THE CARBON FILTER LIGHT BULB FILAMENT. I WAS TOLD HOW NONE OF HIS HUNDREDS OF TRIAL FILAMENTS HAD BEEN UTILIZABLE UNTIL HE FINALLY USED A CARBON FILAMENT THAT WORKED. I REALLY REMEMBER THIS OR CALL ME MAD. YET IT TURNS OUT THAT THE CARBON FILAMENT LIGHT BULB WAS PATENTED A FEW YEARS LATER BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN NAMED LATIMER. BUT HERE IS WHERE MY RANT ENDS. I OFTEN MAKE TEMPLATES WITH PHOTOS FROM AMERICA'S MUSEUM THE SMITHSONIAN. THEY HAVE A LARGE REPOSITORY OF OPEN ACCESS IMAGES. AND WHEN I SEARCH THROUGH ALL THEIR IMAGES, INCLUDING THE COPYRIGHT ONES FOR EDISON, THERE ARE DOZENS OF THEM. YET WHEN I SEARCH FOR LATIMER THERE IS NOT A ONE. IS IT RIGHT THAT THE GUY WHO INVENTED THE WORKING LIGHT BULB IS NOT IN THE IMAGE REPOSITORY OF OUR MAIN MUSEUM! THAT'S ALL BIDEN WAS SAYING. SO IN SUPPORT I PROVIDE ANECDOTES ON TOP OF INCIDENTALS. HERE ARE ALL THE INVENTORS WHO I LEARNED HAD BEEN BEEN CONTENTIOUS AS I GREW OLDER AND READ MORE WIDELY. COPERNICUS
VS
ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS.
ISAAC NEWTON
VS
GOTTFRIED LEIBNITZ.
CHARKES DARWIN AND ALFRED WALLACE
VS
GREGOR MENDAL.
ARTHUR HOLMES ET AL
VS
MARIE THARPE
WHO WAS COMPLETLEY FORGOTTEN.
MARIE CURIE
VS
A BUNCH OF DUDES WHO DID NOT
BELIEVE WOMAN COULD DO SCIENCE.
MIN CHIU LI AND ROY HERTZ
FIRED FROM NIH
NOT NECESSARILY FOR HIS RACE
VS
SOME NIH COLLEAGUES WHO WEREN'T
FIRED AND MAY HAVE BEEN WHITE.
