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electric_blue68

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9. In grade school; and I don't recall beyond that for this particular experience...
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 08:00 PM
9 hrs ago

They "trotted out" Mr Carver time after time.
I only use that phrase because they didn't teach his personal history, and inventions in an interesting way. I would have enjoyed, and learned it then. Instead, I just tuned it out.

And I think he was the only Black inventor ever mentioned. I learned way more of Black inventors through the internet decades later!

Now this was interesting! TY

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