Post: Before black people were even considered citizens. One of us had a US patent. His name was Thomas L. Jennings, and they never taught you about him. In eighteen twenty one Jennings invented a method called dry scouring, a revolutionary early form of dry cleaning. He was a tailor in New York, but he wasn't just so enclosed. He was stitching together freedom. At the time, black people, enslaved or free, couldn't legally own invention. But Jennings was free and brilliant and unstoppable. He became the first black person in US history to receive a patent. And what did he do with the money ? He didn't build a mansion. He funded the abolitionist movement. He bankrolled legal challenges. He helped black people escape bondage. He turned his patent into protest. While white inventors were building wealth. He was building freedom. But you won't find his name in textbooks next to Edison for Bill, because they feared what he represented. That a black man could outflank the system and still survive it. That broke me. He took their laws, masses, their system, and used it against them. So why ? Why is it that we still know the name of every white and inventor, but not the first black would follow ? If this is the legacy they hoped you'd never find, drop Jennings in the comments. If this is the first time you've heard His name. And if you're ready for the truth behind the real MCCOY, we're producing that now, Share, Believe, Inspire Black SBE.

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