Contributions

Black History Week was founded by Carter Woodson 1926: “It wasn’t until 1976 that President Gerald Ford extended the observation to a full month – one honoring the contributions of black Americans…” “Celebrating Black History Month”, https:// nmaahc.si.edu/.

History books ignored the contributions that AfricanAmericans gave to society. It wasn’t after I graduated from college years later that I realized that AfricanAmericans were not just slaves.

Who would have known that Lewis Latimer helped both Thomas Edison (light bulb) and Alexander Graham Bell (telephone)? What about Garrett Morgan, who invented the traffic light and used his gas mask to save white workers? According to Wikipedia, “Hidden Figures” was a movie about three female mathematicians who worked at NASA during the Space Race.

Thank about medical advancements in cancer that were not discovered if white people in authority did not give a Black person a chance to succeed.

Racism costs the U.S. economy $16 trillion (2020). If the U.S. were to eliminate key areas of discrimination, there would be a $5 trillion boost over the next 5 years in the economy. For example, there was “…$2.7 trillion in income lost because of disparities in wages suffered by African Americans.” https://www.npr.org/, 23 Sep 2020.

I sued a company due to discrimination in hiring. Their lawyers asked me for a document to show how much income that I lost in comparison to my current income. Upon preparing a spreadsheet, I was surprised to find out that I was making $13.00 an hour compared to $25.00 an hour as an accountant. Multiply that difference over just a year. This is what conservatives do not want to talk about.

You have 10 minorities that were affected by discrimination, but the conservatives will only talk about one white applicant that was discriminated against.