Great contributions to the world by great people

Another Great American - real estate development

Roy Donahue Peebles is chairman and CEO of the most successful African American real estate development company in the nation, The Peebles Corporation. The Miami based company, which has offices in Las Vegas and Washington D.C., manages a $4 billion development portfolio with properties like: The Royal Palm Hotel on South Beach, Las Palmas Hotel Residencies in Las Vegas, and 10 G Street, N.E. Washington D.C. His awards include: Developer of the Year” at the Women Builders Council 11th Annual Champion Awards, National Executive Service Corps Award for “Outstanding Service to the Non-Profit Community,” Entrepreneur of the Year presented by Rev. Jesse Jackson at the 11th annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit, and “Entrepreneur of the Year” at the Best of Black Business Awards.

https://rollingout.com/2016/05/12/black-real-estate-moguls-know/2/

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How Don Peebles Became One of the Wealthiest African-American Real Estate Developers
https://csq.com/2020/06/how-don-pee...developers-in-the-united-states/#.X4YS4-0pBPY

Forbes estimating his net worth in excess of $700M
 
derektrader said:
I was just talking to a person about a man who invented the Xray machine, it was a German man if Im not mistaken. That got me thinking about all the great minds that made great inventions and discoveries that contributed greatly to mankind. Think about all the great medical break throughs or even electricity, the telescope, the telephone, the computer, the automobile, the airplane!
Its amazing how all these men had such great minds and were such visionaries.
Its just amazing how we can make a list of all the great men that came up with these great idea’s from Einstein to Newton to Galileo, to Columbus. Some people are just born with the ability to create great things, explore and change the world. Even though certain people dont have the ability to create, at least great minds can make their lives better as well if they choose to take advantage of the opportunity.
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And then there are dumb white guys like you, bent on destroying things and disrespecting other people. I bet you haven't achieved a fucking thing of note your entire life.
 
Another Great American...

Thurgood Marshall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall

Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he successfully argued several cases before the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board of Education.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Marshall graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 1933. He established a private legal practice in Baltimore before founding the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he served as executive director. In that position, he argued several cases before the Supreme Court, including Smith v. Allwright, Shelley v. Kraemer, and Brown v. Board of Education, the latter of which held that racial segregation in public education is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Four years later, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall as the United States Solicitor General. In 1967, Johnson successfully nominated Marshall to succeed retiring Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. Marshall retired during the administration of President George H. W. Bush, and was succeeded by Clarence Thomas.

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Nine_Ender said:
And then there are dumb white guys like you, bent on destroying things and disrespecting other people. I bet you haven't achieved a fucking thing of note your entire life.
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i respect anyone who comes up with life changing innovation. Truth is, the overwheming majority of life changing innovation and modern marvels are is derived from white men. I dont know why but thats a fact.
 
userque said:
False. In that post: I asked you a question. Also: I said nothing about your color, nor who you voted for.

Advice: If you believe someone falsely accused you, call them out on it, rather than respond in a way that makes you appear to be tarded.
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All you are good at is calling people tards.
 
Nine_Ender said:
And then there are dumb white guys like you, bent on destroying things and disrespecting other people. I bet you haven't achieved a fucking thing of note your entire life.
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All you are good at is calling people dumb white guys. How racist of you.
 
Let's take a look at just a small sub-set of life changing innovations invented by black men...

Refrigerated Trucks, Invented by Frederick McKinley Jones in 1940
If your refrigerator has any produce from your local grocery store, then you can credit African-American inventor Frederick McKinley Jones. Jones took out more than 60 patents throughout his life, including a patent for the roof-mounted cooling system that’s used to refrigerate goods on trucks during extended transportation in the mid-1930s. He received a patent for his invention in 1940, and co-founded the U.S. Thermo Control Company, later known as Thermo King. The company was critical during World War II, helping to preserve blood, food and supplies during the war.

The Three-Light Traffic Light, Invented by Garrett Morgan in 1923
With only an elementary school education, black inventor (and son of a slave), Garrett Morgan came up with several significant inventions, including an improved sewing machine and the gas mask. However, one of Morgan's most influential inventions was the improved traffic light. Without his innovation, drivers across the nation would be directed by a two-light system.

Automatic Elevator Doors, Invented by Alexander Miles in 1887
The use of elevators in everyday life keeps people from committing to long and grueling climbs up several flights of stairs. However, before the creation of elevator doors that close automatically, riding a lift was both complicated and risky.

Before automatic doors, people had to manually shut both the shaft and elevator doors before riding. Forgetting to do so led to multiple accidents as people fell down elevator shafts. When the daughter of African-American inventor Alexander Miles almost fatally fell down the shaft, he took it upon himself to develop a solution. In 1887 he took out a patent for a mechanism that automatically opens and closes elevator shaft doors and his designs are largely reflected in elevators used today.

Electret Microphone, Co-Invented by James E. West in 1964
Even for those who aren’t quick to pick up the mic during karaoke, microphones are used every day to communicate over distances far and wide. And more than 90 percent of the microphones used today, including the microphones used in phones and cameras, use a microphone co-invented by a black man. Dr. James E. West was tasked with creating a more sensitive and compact microphone while working at Bell Labs in 1960.

Along with his German colleague Gerhard Sessler, West invented the foil electret microphone, which was considerably less expensive to produce than the typically used condenser microphones. Two years after it was invented, the final model of the microphone was developed and in 1964 they patented the landmark invention. Only four years later, the new microphone was in wide production was used in hearing aids, tape recorders, most telephones and baby monitors.

https://www.history.com/news/8-black-inventors-african-american
 
You are grasping at straws here. The aforementioned are derived from existing innovation.
Thats like saying you invented shoe laces but i came up with glow in the dark plastic shoe lace tips.
 
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