A few years ago I started doing these Cool Shit Black People Invented blogs to point out the amount of stuff that wasn't being taught in school during Black History Month aka 28 Days Of A White Teacher Telling A Room Full Of Black Kids How People That Looked Like Her Beat The Hell Out Of Them. In school as far as I knew Black people made peanut butter, the cotton gin, and somehow built a train that ran underground that helped Black folks escape. So allow me to shed some light on other things Black people created.
Fire bad. I think we all learned that
at one point in our childhood. If not, let me be the first to tell
you: fire hurts. Thankfully Joseph Richard Winters created the escape
ladder that attaches to windows so that we can attempt to get out of
burning buildings because, like I said, fire bad. He received the
patent for this ladder in 1882 which means for thousands of years
people just stood at flaming windows wondering why they slept with
the candle on their chest.
