FED UP WITH AFRICAN AMERICANS-THINK AGAIN!

A VERY HUMOROUS AND REVEALING STORY IS TOLD ABOUT A GROUP OF WHITE
PEOPLE WHO WERE FED UP WITH AFRICAN AMERICANS, SO THEY JOINED TOGETHER
AND WISHED THEMSELVES AWAY. THEY PASSED THROUGH A DEEP DARK TUNNEL AND
EMERGED IN SORT OF A TWILIGHT ZONE WHERE THERE IS AN AMERICA WITHOUT
BLACK PEOPLE. AT FIRST THESE WHITE PEOPLE BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF. AT
LAST, THEY SAID, NO MORE CRIME, DRUGS, VIOLENCE AND WELFARE. ALL OF
THE BLACKS HAVE GONE! THEN SUDDENLY, REALITY SET IN. THE "NEW AMERICA"
IS NOT AMERICA AT ALL-ONLY A BARREN LAND.

1. THERE ARE VERY FEW CROPS THAT HAVE FLOURISHED BECAUSE THE NATION
WAS BUILT ON A SLAVE-SUPPORTED SYSTEM.

2. THERE ARE NO CITIES WITH TALL SKYSCRAPERS BECAUSE ALEXANDER MILS,
A BLACK MAN, INVENTED THE ELEVATOR, AND WITHOUT IT ONE FINDS GREAT
DIFFICULTY REACHING HIGHER FLOORS.

3. THERE ARE FEW IF ANY CARS BECAUSE RICHARD SPIKES, A BLACK MAN,
INVENTED THE AUTOMATIC GEAR SHIFT, JOSEPH GAMBOL, ALSO BLACK, INVENTED
THE SUPER CHARGE SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES, AND GARRETT
A. MORGAN, A BLACK MAN, INVENTED THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS.

4. FURTHERMORE, ONE COULD NOT USE THE RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM BECAUSE
IT'S PROCURER WAS THE ELECTRIC TROLLEY, WHICH WAS INVENTED BY ANOTHER
BLACK MAN, ALBERT R. ROBINSON.

5. EVEN IF THERE WERE STREETS ON WHICH CARS AND A RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM
COULD OPERATE, THEY WERE CLUTTERED WITH PAPER BECAUSE AN AFRICAN
AMERICAN, CHARLES BROOKS, INVENTED THE STREET SWEEPER.

6. THERE WERE FEW IF ANY NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES AND BOOKS BECAUSE JOHN
LOVE INVENTED THE PENCIL SHARPENER, WILLIAM PURVEYS INVENTED THE
FOUNTAIN PEN, LEE BARRAGE INVENTED THE TYPE WRITING MACHINE AND W. A.
LOVE INVENTED THE ADVANCED PRINTING PRESS. THEY WERE ALL, YOU GUESSED
IT, BLACK.

7. EVEN IF AMERICANS COULD WRITE THEIR LETTERS, ARTICLES AND BOOKS,
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TRANSPORTED BY MAIL BECAUSE WILLIAM BARRY
INVENTED THE POSTMARKING AND CANCELING MACHINE, WILLIAM PURVEYS
INVENTED THE HAND STAMP AND PHILIP DOWNING INVENTED THE LETTER DROP.

8. THE LAWNS WERE BROWN AND WILTED BECAUSE JOSEPH SMITH INVENTED THE
LAWN SPRINKLER AND JOHN BURR THE LAWN MOWER.

9. WHEN THEY ENTERED THEIR HOMES, THEY FOUND THEM TO BE POORLY
VENTILATED AND POORLY HEATED. YOU SEE, FREDERICK JONES INVENTED THE
AIR CONDITIONER AND ALICE PARKER THE HEATING FURNACE. THEIR HOMES WERE
ALSO DIM. BUT OF COURSE, LEWIS LATER INVENTED THE ELECTRIC LAMP,
MICHAEL HARVEY INVENTED THE LANTERN AND GRANVILLE T. WOODS INVENTED
THE AUTOMATIC CUT OFF SWITCH. THEIR HOMES WERE ALSO FILTHY BECAUSE
THOMAS W. STEWARD INVENTED THE MOP &LLOYD P. RAY THE DUST PAN.

10. THEIR CHILDREN MET THEM AT THE DOOR-BAREFOOTED, SHABBY, MOTLEY AND
UNKEMPT. BUT WHAT COULD ONE EXPECT? JAN E. MATZELINGER INVENTED THE
SHOE LASTING MACHINE, WALTER SAMMONS INVENTED THE COMB, SARAH BOONE
INVENTED THE IRONING BOARD AND GEORGE T. SAMON INVENTED THE CLOTHES DRYER.

11. FINALLY, THEY WERE RESIGNED TO AT LEAST HAVE DINNER AMIDST ALL OF
THIS TURMOIL. BUT HERE AGAIN, THE FOOD HAD SPOILED BECAUSE ANOTHER
BLACK MAN, JOHN STANDARD INVENTED THE REFRIGERATOR. NOW,
ISN'T THAT SOMETHING? WHAT WOULD THIS COUNTRY BE LIKE WITHOUT THE
CONTRIBUTIONS OF BLACKS, AS AFRICAN-AMERICANS? MARTIN LUTHER KING,
JR., "BY THE TIME WE LEAVE FOR WORK, AMERICANS HAVE DEPENDED ON THE
INVENTIONS FROM THE MINDS OF BLACKS." BLACK HISTORY INCLUDES MORE THAN
JUST SLAVERY, FREDERICK DOUGLASS, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., MALCOLM X,
MARCUS GARVEY & W.E.B.DUBOIS.