So You Think Akatas Are Useless Huh

He invented laundry soap. Now you go do your research.

no he did not.

Now I understand why the majority of this generation of African Americans would never reach the pinnacle of success. You dare call a degree a piece of paper? How dare you?  You are a shame to the likes of Elizabeth Eckford that was sneered at in 1957 for going to an all white school.

Show me the statistics of progressive blacks without college eduucation(as you presumed education is just a piece of paper). How do you expect to get jobs? Do you think the African American community would have any representative in the white house if not for educated blacks?



How do you expect to benefit your people without the piece of paper you foolishly relegated a degree to?


I wonder where you get this from. I live in the US. How do white people do things to bring you down? My uncles schooled and worked in the same US you say the whites are racist and they are doctors, grasping the opportunities America has to offer and you are here beating your chest that you made soap.

@ davidylan

You've killed me here with laughter

Show me the statistics of progressive blacks without college eduucation(as you presumed education is just a piece of paper). How do you expect to get jobs? Do you think the African American community would have any representative in the white house if not for educated blacks?

I have a cousin who owns a real estate compnay he never went to college. My grandfather owns land in Arkansas. I had an uncle who owned his own dry cleaning business.

By the way I'm in college. I graduated from high school early.

Also I didn't say white people hold black people down. I said some white people do racists thing to black people.
Thats not the same as holding them down. You need to read the post clearly. I talked about racism not holding people down.

Maybe you havent noticed that quite a lot of Africans (like me) don't like hip hop a whole heck of a lot. I'd rather listen to Celtic songs than Omarion anyday . . just a bunch of sexually perverted crap glorifying idleness.

I love rock .

The most degrading thing to womanhood in this century is a hip hop video. Anyway what do you expect from people that call a degree an ordinary piece of paper?

@grafikdon na true you talk about the soap thing but don't steal Staind, Whitney and Enya from me ooo 

Africans invented humanity. The oldest woman discovered was African, if we are not talking about Adam and Eve.

If you are so  bitter about Africans calling some AA's akata then you should find an AA forum and educate them on how to stop being a bunch of racist ninis, they are way beyond ignorant. An African American woman came to my house and did not know that South Africa was a country. Amazing. You say Africans are emmulating whites but you quickly mention that an AA invented hot comb and relaxer to remove nappiness from here. Now tell me who is truley ashamed of who they are.

So just because one African American didn't know South Africa was country all African Americans are ignorant.
It was a white woman who was asked to identify North America on the globe and she couldn't.
And guess what? The fool was born,raised and lives in America.

You need to learn how to read. I said Africans are emulating hip hop not whites. Africans get perms and use hotcombs just like African Americans.

All hip hop is not bad also. Omarion does not sing bad songs. Common doesn't, Jay Z (sometimes), India Arie (she's more R& b, Jill Scott, Kelly Rowland, Beyonce, Mary J Blige.

Comment on the changing of your hair to look white while you claim that Africans are trying to emmulate whites. The reason I mention a grown woman that didn't know about South Africa is becuase she is a kindergarten teacher. I understand when the people from my former high school make such idiotic mistake as assuming Nigeria is a state, but a teacher, what has the world come to.

could it be because they are all Africans too regardless of location?

I havent seen a white English man accusiing a white Portuguese of using hair gel like all white English men.

Do you also know that we do, did and have already done that with the likes of Agbo and the rest herbal treatments my mother is good at administering when her children are ill? Wow so Africans have their own medicines. _sarcasm

False . . . perhaps you don't know that the human body is so complicated that no drug can be completely specific. I'll give u an example: Cox-2 inhibitors are excellent NSAIDS . . . the problem is they also inhibit Cox-1 which is why you get the undesirable gastro-intestinal side effects. Unfortunately no one has yet been able to come up with a drug that can be specific for just Cox-2 . . . it is not the FDAs fault.
Continue parroting the illiterate propaganda.

Go research the FDA. sweetie you are delirious. They intentionally invent drugs that will cause hramful side effects so they can gain profit. Everything you need is found in nature.  That's how God made it.
I use to have cramps real bad. I started taking blackstrap molasses, mixed with Brewer's Yeast and guess what the cramps stopped.
Midol didn't fix it. A natural potion did.

No I'm saying I am a college student. But college is not the only way to become successful. There are other avenues besides college. I need to go to college because in order for me to practice biophysics I need an degree. Everybody doesn't need a degree just to become somebody.

@Girl22

There is nothing about George Washington Carver being instrumental in the creation of soap. In fact all of the inventions you listed and attributed to African Americans are also a bit flaky (excuse pun). If I create a soap today that smells like any flower you wish it to at will would that mean that I could claim 100% that I was the sole inventor of the product? Go and sit down  jare!

You do have a point about Nigerians looking down on African Americans but that is just Nigerians for you. Your initial post however, is filled with nothing but pure dribble and not based on fact or truths.


History of  Soap.

History

[edit] Early History
Soapnut Tree (Reeta / Sapindus tree)
Soapnut Tree (Reeta / Sapindus tree)

The earliest known use of a natural soap-like substance was the powder of the Reeta (Sapindus) nut, which was used by Indians since antiquity. Hindus in India were obliged to bathe at least once a day, every morning, in accordance with Ayurveda. Evidence of manufactured soap use are Babylonian clay cylinders dating from 2800 BC containing a soap-like substance. A formula for soap consisting of water, alkali and cassia oil was written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 BC.

The Ebers papyrus (Egypt, 1550 BC) indicates that ancient Egyptians bathed regularly and combined animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to create a soap-like substance. Egyptian documents mention that a soap-like substance was used in the preparation of wool for weaving.

[edit] Roman History

It had been reported that a factory producing soap-like substances was found in the ruins of Pompeii (79 AD). However, this has proven to be a misinterpretation of the survival of some soapy mineral substance,[citation needed] probably soapstone at the Fullonica where it was used for dressing recently cleansed textiles. Unfortunately this error has been repeated widely and can be found in otherwise reputable texts on soap history. The ancient Romans were generally ignorant of soap's detergent properties, and made use of the strigil to scrape dirt and sweat from the body. The word "soap" (Latin sapo) appears first in a European language in Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis, which discusses the manufacture of soap from tallow and ashes, but the only use he mentions for it is as a pomade for hair; he mentions rather disapprovingly that among the Gauls and Germans men are likelier to use it than women.[1]

A story encountered in some places claims that soap takes its name from a supposed "Mount Sapo" where ancient Romans sacrificed animals. Rain would send a mix of animal tallow and wood ash down the mountain and into the clay soil on the banks of the Tiber. Eventually, women noticed that it was easier to clean clothes with this "soap". The location of Mount Sapo is unknown, as is the source of the "ancient Roman legend" to which this tale is typically credited.[1] In fact, the Latin word sapo simply means "soap"; it was borrowed from a Celtic or Germanic language, and is cognate with Latin sebum, "tallow", which appears in Pliny the Elder's account. Roman animal sacrifices usually burned only the bones and inedible entrails of the sacrificed animals; edible meat and fat from the sacrifices were taken by the humans rather than the gods. Animal sacrifices in the ancient world would not have included enough fat to make much soap. The legend about Mount Sapo is probably apocryphal.

[edit] Muslim History

True soaps made from vegetable oils (such as olive oil), aromatic oils (such as thyme oil) and Lye (al-Soda al-Kawia) were first produced by Muslim chemists in the medieval Islamic world.[2] The formula for soap used since then hasn't changed and are identical to the current soap sold in modern times. From the beginning of the 7th century, soap was produced in Nablus (West Bank, Palestine), Kufa (Iraq) and Basra (Iraq). Soaps, as we know them today, are descendants of historical Arabian Soaps. Arabian Soap was perfumed and colored, some of the soaps were liquid and others were hard. They also had special soap for shaving. It was commercially sold for 3 Dirhams (0.3 Dinars) a piece in 981 AD. The Persian chemist Al-Razi wrote a manuscript on recipes for true soap. A recently discovered manuscript from the 13th century details more recipes for soap making; e.g. take some sesame oil, a sprinkle of potash, alkali and some lime, mix them all together and boil. When cooked, they are poured into molds and left to set, leaving hard soap.

Historically, soap was made by mixing animal fats with lye. Because of the caustic lye, this was a dangerous procedure (perhaps more dangerous than any present-day home activities) which could result in serious chemical burns or even blindness. Before commercially-produced lye (sodium hydroxide) was commonplace, potash, potassium hydroxide, was produced at home for soap making from the ashes of a hardwood fire.

[edit] Modern History

Castile soap was later produced in Europe from the 16th century.
1922 magazine advertisement for Palmolive Soap
1922 magazine advertisement for Palmolive Soap

In modern times, the use of soap has become universal in industrialized nations due to a better understanding of the role of hygiene in reducing the population size of pathogenic microorganisms. Manufactured bar soaps first became available in the late nineteenth century, and advertising campaigns in Europe and the United States helped to increase popular awareness of the relationship between cleanliness and health. By the 1950s, soap had gained public acceptance as an instrument of personal hygiene.

Rarely, conditions allow for corpses to naturally turn in to a soap-like substance, such as the Soap Lady on exhibit in the Mutter Museum.
(Azul e Branco Soap) - A bar of blue-white offenbach soap
(Azul e Branco Soap) - A bar of blue-white offenbach soap

[edit] Commercial soap production

Until the Industrial Revolution soap-making was done on a small scale and the product was rough. Andrew Pears started making a high-quality, transparent soap in 1789 in London. With his grandson, Francis Pears, they opened a factory in Isleworth in 1862. William Gossage produced low-price good quality soap from the 1850s. Robert Spear Hudson began manufacturing a soap powder in 1837, initially by grinding the soap with a mortar and pestle. William Hesketh Lever and his brother James bought a small soap works in Warrington in 1885 and founded what is still one of the largest soap businesses, now called Unilever. These soap businesses were among the first to employ large scale advertising campaigns to sell the output of their factories.

Traffic lights

History


On 10 December 1868, the first traffic lights were installed outside the British Houses of Parliament in London, by the railway engineer J. P. Knight. They resembled railway signals of the time, with semaphore arms and red and green gas lamps for night use. The gas lantern was turned with a lever at its base so that the appropriate light faced traffic. Unfortunately, it exploded on 2 January 1869, injuring the policeman who was operating it.

The modern electric traffic light is an American invention.[1] As early as 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah, policeman Lester Wire invented the first red-green electric traffic lights. On 5 August 1914, the American Traffic Signal Company installed a traffic signal system on the corner of 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.[2] [3] It had two colors, red and green, and a buzzer, based on the design of James Hoge, to provide a warning for color changes. The design by James Hoge (USPTO # 1251666 Sept. 22, 1913) allowed Police and Fire stations to control the signals in case of emergency. The first four-way, three-color traffic light was created by police officer William Potts in Detroit in 1920.[4] In 1923, Garrett Morgan patented a traffic signal device, although it was not a precursor of the modern traffic light [8]



So this man created a traffic light signal which is not even a precursor to the modern traffic light and you are in here making a a$$ of yourself about it? Harping on about Morgan solely inventing the traffic light?? Please It pays do google and research before starting arguments