-Afrofuturism

-Henrietta Lacks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49411915)

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The earliest references to peanut butter can be traced to Aztec and Inca civilizations, who ground roasted peanuts into a paste.[2] The Bainbridge Post-Searchlight reports that 16th-century Aztecs used peanut paste for aching gums.[3]

Several people can be credited with the invention of modern peanut butter and the processes involved in making it. The U.S. National Peanut Board credits three modern inventors with the earliest patents related to the production of modern peanut butter.[4] Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, obtained the first patent for a method of producing peanut butter from roasted peanuts using heated surfaces in 1884.[5] Edson's cooled product had "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment" according to his patent application which described a process of milling roasted peanuts until the peanuts reached "a fluid or semi-fluid state". He mixed sugar into the paste to harden its consistency.[5]

A businessman from St. Louis named George Bayle produced and sold peanut butter in the form of a snack food in 1894.[6] By 1917, American consumers used peanut products during periods of meat rationing, with government promotions of "meatless Mondays" when peanut butter was a favored choice.[7]

John Harvey Kellogg, known for his line of prepared breakfast cereals, was an advocate of using plant foods as a healthier dietary choice than meat.[7] He was issued a patent for a "Process of Producing Alimentary Products" on May 24, 1898, and used peanuts, although he boiled the peanuts rather than roasting them.[7][8][9] Kellogg's Western Health Reform Institute served peanut butter to patients because they needed a food that contained a large amount of protein that could be eaten without chewing.[6][7] At first, peanut butter was a food for wealthy people, as it became popular initially as a product served at expensive health care institutes.[6][7]

Although often credited as its inventor, George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter.[10] By the time Carver published his document about peanuts, entitled "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption" in 1916,[11] many methods of preparation of peanut butter had already been developed or patented by various pharmacists, doctors, and food scientists working in the US and Canada.[12][13][14]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49411934)

Slavery being “bad”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49411931)

in a similar vein a few decades earlier: Kwanzaa

Ann Coulter's annual Happy Kwanzaa article is always entertaining to re-read

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49411973)

Very similar thing with 'paganism' which was invented in the 20th century and doesn't have much foundation in any real pre-Christian religious practice

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49411978)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49411988)

sort of how everyone in france insists they were tied to the resistance?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49411974)

(on reflection it doesn't fit well into this thread but it came to mind)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49411983)

all race-related re-writing of history is infuriating

like when Churchill goes into the London subway during the Blitz and just happens to come across both the black guys in London during that time

There's a recent movie about William Tell set in medieval central Europe in the 13th century, and whaddaya know, suddenly William Tell has blacks and Indians fighting for him, and suddenly he has a muslim wife and a brown son and he speaks arabic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49412003)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49412037)

Jim Crow as a nightmarish hellscape for blacks when in fact it was a time of unparalleled prosperity for them

it wasn't "libs" who forcememed this but (((libs)))

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49412039)

Libs forcememeing 90s gangster rap at some kind of coherent well thought out intellectual movement. A lot of blacks who went to college talk about NWA and Tupac as if they had some deeper meaning or were on par with the literary greats of history.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49412040)

remember hearing these tenured "intellectuals" dissecting Ice Cube v NWA, Notorious BIG v Tupac and how they're better examples of tragedy and storytelling than great rivalries in the Iliad, what a world

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49412048)

https://dailyegyptian.com/32611/archives/harvard-university-offer-courses-using-tupac-shakurs-lyrics/

https://folkmyth.fas.harvard.edu/2003-all-eyez-me-tupac-shakur-and-search-modern-folk-hero

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1faz9t/til_in_1998_the_university_of_california_berkeley/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794897&forum_id=2#49412080)