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Black History or American History? · Richard Randall Show

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  Speaker 1: So we're talking in the break of course, and you
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  Speaker 1: were saying that you've seen the NASA movie. We got
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  Speaker 1: off the track on that a little bit and I
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  Speaker 1: asked you, David, so what did you learn about black
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  Speaker 1: history as you were coming up? You said something that
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  Speaker 1: was very, very telling. I think it was pretty much
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  Speaker 1: just Harriet Tubman and George Washington Carver. That would have
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  Speaker 1: been it. I mean, and look, I don't mean to
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  Speaker 1: diminish him, right, I mean my first thought was like
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  Speaker 1: peanut butter or something, right, right, And it turns out, kids,
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  Speaker 1: I looked this up over three hundred uses for peanuts
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  Speaker 1: and he ended up being It was his first black
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  Speaker 1: student at Iowa State. He later led the Tuskegee Institute
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  Speaker 1: their agricultural department for forty seven years, and he did
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of amazing things, right, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: diminish that, But it also it sounds like they went
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  Speaker 1: out of their way to tell you a guy about, well,
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  Speaker 1: we got this black history thing. It's peanut butter. So
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  Speaker 1: that's what we're going to be talking about. Is really
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  Speaker 1: you would have been talking, as David said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a cesarean section. But how about this Thomas Edison may
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  Speaker 1: have invented the concept, but Lewis Latimer added the carbon
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  Speaker 1: filament that made light bulbs last longer and made them
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  Speaker 1: commercially viable. Well, I didn't know about that. Nineteen twelve
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  Speaker 1: Garrett Morgan. He invented the gas masks that saved thousands
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  Speaker 1: of soldiers' lives during World War One when poisonous gas
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  Speaker 1: was used as a weapon. If that weren't enough, he
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  Speaker 1: also invented the modern traffic signal. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: give you a whole thing here, but what's amazing to
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  Speaker 1: me is they teach you about peanut butter and of course,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that's not important. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: the under you know ground, you know, Harriet Tubman thing
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  Speaker 1: isn't important. But I'm saying it's somewhere along the line.
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  Speaker 1: Did you not want to tell me about? Doctor Charles Drew.
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  Speaker 1: He invented a technique for long term preservation of blood plasma.
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  Speaker 1: Part of that they could only keep blood for two days.
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  Speaker 1: He figured out a way said that they could keep
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  Speaker 1: it much much longer by making it into plasma. And
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  Speaker 1: then this is amazing to me. Eighteen ninety three, Right,
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  Speaker 1: you have a black surgeon, Daniel Hale Williams. He established
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  Speaker 1: Provident Hospital and Training School Association in Chicago. He insisted
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  Speaker 1: on the highest standards concerning sanitary conditions in hospitals and
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  Speaker 1: especially in surgery. And if you go back and look
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  Speaker 1: at some of this stuff, holy cow, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: amazing that anybody survived. They you know, going back to
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  Speaker 1: the Civil War, he had chop off this guy's arm
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  Speaker 1: and he used the same thought to go over here
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  Speaker 1: and do this, and you did. I mean it was horrible.
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  Speaker 1: So this guy, on the other hand, what is he
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  Speaker 1: a collopolition? Well, in eighteen ninety three he performed the
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  Speaker 1: first open heart surgery, which was the first time that
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  Speaker 1: a chess cavity had ever been opened up without the
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  Speaker 1: patient dying of infection. I don't know. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of Rosa Parks, MLK and at King Cole, Barry,
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  Speaker 1: Gordy Elefics, Gerald, Duke Wellington and all of that that
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  Speaker 1: they're a good marshal on the Supreme Court, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: But all of that, in my opinion, could have and
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  Speaker 1: should have been taught just like Morgan Freeman said, as
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  Speaker 1: just a routine part of a history course. Let's find
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  Speaker 1: out what you're thinking about this. Keeping in mind, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, we'll here from the President. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: Tina Peters in the next hour. Here we go. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: this one, I have to say this one. It says,
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  Speaker 1: how about a Tyrolean Heritage Month. I'm on board with
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  Speaker 1: that because my ancestors came from South Tyrol, which is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a part of northern Italy in Austria, and
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  Speaker 1: they've got some autonomy. They're not exactly they're part of Italy,
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  Speaker 1: but they've got a lot more freedom there. I'd be
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  Speaker 1: on board with that. If folks want to celebrate locally,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. Don't think it needs to be a national
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  Speaker 1: month long holiday, that's all. And I see that's appreciate that.