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How have Black male inventors, such as Garrett Morgan and Lewis Latimer, influenced modern technology, and why are their contributions often underrepresented in mainstream history?

Because they weren't very interesting discoveries. In the US you're forced to study black inventors and social theorists and what you find out is that they accomplished less than you can fit in a 12 year old's school project

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They invented relatively minor changes, which were perhaps improvements over existing products or perhaps not.

Around 80% of patents are just slightly different ways of doing something that someone else already invented. Maybe they're better, maybe not, the ONLY requirement to get a patent is that it be DIFFERENT. So, for example, the hillbilly who invents a cat brush that has an integrated flea powder dispenser in it has just as valid of a patent as Shuji Nakamura, the inventor of the first commercially viable blue LED.

As far as "underrepresented", if anything they get overpromoted. I've seen tee-shirts proclaiming that blacks invented all sorts of crap, and when I looked up some of the names I found that the basic inventions had been made by whites years or even decades earlier -- the black guys just happened to come up with some minor change.

The only black inventor I'm aware of who came up with something significant was Lonnie Johnson, who invented the Super Soaker squirtgun.

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Gotta hand it to the nigger on one thing; he had style.

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>Nigger inventors
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>How have Black male inventors, such as Garrett Morgan and Lewis Latimer, influenced modern technology

They haven't. Niggers have never invented anything. Everything they claim to have invented is a lie.

https://blackinventionmyths.com/

Marx was blaq? Man another invention claimed by the white man… sad!

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nobody even remembers that a black man invented legalized slavery

The black man’s greatest invention was the BBC