How the past is rewritten, in an attempt to give black people a more important role in world history
Black people have not invented much or contributed notably to the advance of human knowledge. This is embarrassing for many people and so an alternative history has been devised, in which people of African ancestry invented everything from higher mathematics to the electric light bulb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4RO_eTdjMI
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