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Joe wants to be Leader Of The Free World, yet he apparently does not know who invented the light bulb.
At a campaign event yesterday morning, Joe told community leaders in Kenosha, Wisconsin that "a black man, NOT Thomas Edison, invented the light bulb."
He also told a crowd that the reason for racial discrimination was that "people fear that which is different."
Implying that black Americans are different from everyone else. Interesting take on racial relations, Joe.
Biden claims Black man invented light bulb during campaign event | Fox News
Here is Joe, word for word...
"People fear that which is different. We've got to, for example, why in God's name don't we teach history in history classes? A Black man invented the light bulb, not a White guy named Edison," Biden said. "There's so much — did anybody know before what recently happened that Black Wall Street in Oklahoma was burned to the ground. Anybody know these things? Because we don't teach them. We've got to give people facts."
It was Edison who first invented the light bulb and a filament that could last 1,200 hours. According to the Department of Energy, Edison secured patents for the incandescent light bulb in 1879 and 1880. Biden was likely referring to Lewis Howard Latimer, who, according to a biography by MIT, patented an improved version of an incandescent light bulb in 1881 that could last even longer than Edison's.
At a campaign event yesterday morning, Joe told community leaders in Kenosha, Wisconsin that "a black man, NOT Thomas Edison, invented the light bulb."
He also told a crowd that the reason for racial discrimination was that "people fear that which is different."
Implying that black Americans are different from everyone else. Interesting take on racial relations, Joe.
Biden claims Black man invented light bulb during campaign event | Fox News
Here is Joe, word for word...
"People fear that which is different. We've got to, for example, why in God's name don't we teach history in history classes? A Black man invented the light bulb, not a White guy named Edison," Biden said. "There's so much — did anybody know before what recently happened that Black Wall Street in Oklahoma was burned to the ground. Anybody know these things? Because we don't teach them. We've got to give people facts."
It was Edison who first invented the light bulb and a filament that could last 1,200 hours. According to the Department of Energy, Edison secured patents for the incandescent light bulb in 1879 and 1880. Biden was likely referring to Lewis Howard Latimer, who, according to a biography by MIT, patented an improved version of an incandescent light bulb in 1881 that could last even longer than Edison's.