In Focus PodCast Assignment

Kardasia is starting a new podcast where she invites people to share their opinions on various topics. She wants to create a safe space for people to express themselves and discuss important issues, particularly within the black community. In one episode, she highlights the impact of African American inventors and innovators. She mentions specific inventions like the three-way traffic light, automatic elevator doors, lubrication systems for steam engines, adjustable sanitary belts, gas masks, modern toilets, and thermostats. Kardasia believes that these inventors are not given enough recognition and that discrimination is still a problem in society. She calls for more education and appreciation for the contributions of African American inventors. What's up friends, it's your girl Kardasia and I am starting a new podcast. This podcast is going to be openly and freely of any opinions and any topics you guys want to talk about. So this is really new for me, it's just something where I open space for all you guys to share your opinions and my own opinions of what I think about what's happening in society today, what's happening in the future, what's happening in the past, what needs to be changed and especially the things in the black community. This is a space for you guys to feel safe and open to express your feelings that you feel that you're not heard. But I'm here for that. But today I'm going to discuss my very own topic today. But at the end of the podcast I will provide my socials and somewhere where you guys can leave comments and concerns and what other topics you want to talk about in the future. But today the topic we're going to be discussing is the impact of African American inventors and innovators. What I mean by that is the different things that you use today that you wouldn't recognize that African American people have created, which myself I have not known that some of these people have created these things that I use on a daily, which is crazy, right? Yeah, like your toilet, your microwave, your washing machine, your ceiling fan, when you're driving, the traffic lights that give you safe direction of when one person stops, the other person goes, the other person turns left, yields right, don't turn on red, don't turn on green, all of that stuff. Crazy, right? And when I've done this research and I found these things out, I was appalled that these were people of my time, like African American people. I would have never guessed because I never really was taught these things. I would just say, I would just see things about African American people in more of a negative light than a positive. Because we all, everyone knows that in school, elementary, starting from elementary to middle school to high school, even into college, we talk about the first thing about African American people is slavery, slavery, slavery, slavery, which is always a negative light. So let's bring the positive light of what our black African American people have provided for us that we use today that is very, very beneficial because it's important to highlight the people, to celebrate the people, just how you guys like to celebrate your birthdays and all your accomplishments. We need to celebrate our African American inventors that has helped us and created a better way of living for us today. So let's get into it. All right, guys, so I have a few inventors list that I have for today. So today I have Gary Morgan. He has created the three-way traffic light. That is very, very extremely important because without traffic lights, or not just traffic lights, but three-way traffic lights, there will be not a smooth way of traffic. There will be accidents, terrible accidents, even deaths, bodily injury, because traffic lights save lives. Because a lot of people would not be more careful if they did not have three-way traffic lights. Okay, I have Alexander Miles. He has created an automatically for opening and closing elevator doors. We all know that we don't like taking the stairs. We don't like taking three, four, five flights of stairs because I don't. I do not. But sometimes I take it anyway because sometimes it's like, Couragia, you can take the stairs. You don't need the elevator today. But opening and closing the elevators automatically is extremely important because sometimes elevators can malfunction. And I believe back in the day that you had to manually open and close the elevators once they reached the next floor level, which is really not necessary. So creating the automatically opening and closing the elevator doors, that's a really cool invention to have. And I've seen it progress over the years as I've taken the many elevators I have taken in my life. I still have anxiety with elevators, but I don't really like taking them much. But I take them when necessary because I am not about to climb five, six stairs of flights of stairs. I'd be breathing so hard when I get to the top. I'd rather go down than go up. Going up is the hard part. I could go down five, six, seven flights of stairs going down. Just not up. It's not my part, but anyway. Next person we have is Elijah McCoy. He created a lubrication system for steam engines. This is extremely important to me because these steam engines are very much dangerous and having lubrication systems is more easier on the men themselves when they're working with these type of machines. So that's a really good one. Next we have Mary Kenner, where she created the adjustable sanitary belt. I didn't know what the sanitary adjustable belt was, so I had to do some research on that. So this is basically used to keep a sanitary pad in place between the legs before a measuring cycle. This is for women. This is for women, basically. So, yeah, this is really important since they didn't have really anything back in the day because this was in the 70s. I don't believe they have the more updated and more items that they have today for women's measuring cycles. So that's a pretty big deal. And I'm pretty sure women were gladly appreciative about that from Mary. So that's really good. I never heard of that before, but, yeah, that's good. Next person I have is Garriott Augustus Morgan. Sorry if I mispronounced that. He created the gas mask and the traffic signal. Now, see, going back to Garriott Morgan, he created a three-way traffic light, which comes from three ways, obviously. But Garriott Augustus Morgan created the actual traffic signal itself, like going left, going right, turning red, yellow, blue, stop, slow down, go. Yeah, he created the whole nine. So that's really important to have a smooth roadway, avoid accidents, and stuff like that. Stop signs work, but traffic signals is even better. So, yeah, and creating a gas mask, that's important if they have gas leaks. Just protect your face, protect your breathing, protect your lungs, because humans, that's not even just humans. Anything living in general, going down to plants, animals, cannot breathe gas. Gas can be deadly. So creating a gas mask is pretty important. And also, I believe, when you're in police training, that they use the gas mask or the gas chamber for something to have to do with training for that as well. Because, you know, we're supposed to breathe gas. But, hey, teachers don't. But I have Thomas Elkins. He created the modern toy. Now, when I saw this, I was just like, yes, yes. And he's black, he's African-American, and he created the toilet. Everybody needs a toilet, right? The toilet is just the number one thing you need, especially in your household. And to say that this was an African-American man who created the modern toilet, I was really excited when I saw this in my research, because that is just amazing. The modern toilet, yes. Back in the day, you had to dig. Going back to slavery, you had to dig holes and just, you know, handle your business like that, which is pretty disgusting. But they had no choice. But when Thomas Elkins created that modern toilet, that changed things for the better. So let's give a hand clap for him, everybody. Drop a like and a comment for Thomas, you guys. And the last one I have on this list is Frederick Jones. He created the thermostat and the temperature control. He is my favorite on this list, because no matter the weather, it can be fall, it could be winter, it could be snowing outside. I'm going to have the air on 70. I'm going to have my ceiling fan on, and I'm going to have a stand-up air conditioning right next to me. I have a stand-up air conditioning to me right now. I don't have it on, though. But when I get ready to go to bed, I need three forms of air conditioning. I need the fan spinning on the ceiling, I need a stand-up fan, and I need the air on at least 70, minimum 70, because it's comfortable for me. And I feel comfortable with those types of air on me. I don't care if it's freezing outside. I just need that for me when I go to sleep. So Frederick Jones, let me give him a hand clap. Hold on. Yep. Give him a hand clap, because that is just amazing. Okay. Now that we have gone through a few of the black African-American inventors and their inventions, we're going to talk about, even though that's a good thing that they have created these such things for us in society today, but let's talk about the lack of recognition. In black history, slavery has been one of the most terrible experiences that the black community has faced, even with discrimination. We experience discrimination to this day. Maybe it wasn't as bad as it was back in the day, but today it has been terrible. With discrimination, especially with the presidential debate and the new president coming in to terms, you can tell, and it's showing progressively, that discrimination is still real. Even though slavery is not a thing anymore, discrimination is still alive, and it's showing every single day more and more. I believe these inventions have not been seen or recognized or educated to the upcoming black community, I would say, because of the lack of funding and limited access to marketing and inventions throughout the whole world. I believe the ripple effect of these inventions and how it impacted different industries, it has impacted from healthcare, communications, to home security, and even food distributes, but that's just one of the problems. I believe another problem is that we feel as if that these people have no heart. If you were able to create such things that everyone in the world can use, like a thermostat, a toilet, and most importantly, an adjustable sanitary belt for our women, that is just amazing. How can you not recognize someone for doing such a thing? I believe it's a thing that society and the government needs to grow up and recognize the African American people. These people are not being seen or recognized or taught in classes because the government has created such control, even within the education system, to stop and not really recognize or highlight these people because of the color of their skin. That's a conversation for another day. We, as a society, need to start coming together, and even with this podcast. This podcast is a step one of recognizing a black community. Now, we love all people. We do not discriminate. This podcast and this community is for everyone, but we must speak for our people because we have gone through so much in the world that it is not enough. It is not going to change unless we start with ourselves. We, as a community, need to come together and support each other, teach our up-and-coming children about our African American inventors. Not even just inventors. We can talk about athletes, African American athletes, African American education, healthcare, government, and the community. We need to grow up as a society because these people have worked hard. They have went through so much because most of these inventors were made in the early 1900s and even in the 1800s, and that was when slavery was at its peak. So, they didn't even have a choice to put a name on their invention because they were afraid that they were going to get punished because no one wanted them to take credit for something that could change the lives of others. These experiences changed our cultures for the better. But I've seen progressions over the years because I've seen the hardcore books and the documentaries and stuff like that that's coming out on these big platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Peacock, stuff like that. But we must open ourselves to be able to be open and watch these new things and even reach out as young adults and go out and do our own research, learn about our people, learn about our community. We don't have to be blood. We do not have to be blood to learn this and support our people and our community. So, I encourage you guys to go out there, listen to these podcasts, listen to these documentaries. Go out and listen to these different documentaries. Go to even educational programs. Visit museum exhibits because museums are very educational. Yeah, educational because they have even hardcore stuff that they have evidence from back in the day. Especially you guys who plan on pursuing a job in STEM because STEM is going to be a change for society. STEM is never going to go nowhere because without STEM, anything in STEM, it needs STEM everywhere and every day in society. That's how we're going to continue to work this world. But yeah, I really encourage you guys to go out there and do your research on your people and not just your people. You can go out and research people outside. That's why discrimination needs to stop, not just in our black community, in the whole wide world. That's why society needs to change with these things. But that's enough for today. But we're going to wrap up this podcast today, guys. I want you guys to leave a comment in my description once I post this podcast. Only positive comments only. And some future topics you guys want me to talk about in the future. We also have our socials. You can leave a comment or whatever you want to do. Leave a voicemail or something on our socials. We have Instagram. We have Twitter. And we have TikTok. It's Deja Podcast. D-A-S-I-A Podcast. Together makes each other. Don't separate. Together. Deja's Podcast. And you can leave a comment below. And we can talk about future stuff, you know? We can hang out. I kind of like this podcast stuff. Maybe I can call any of you guys during my podcast. Maybe we can do some live podcasts and do some things like that. But let me know, guys, in the comments what you guys think about my first podcast. So, it's my first one. Hey, leave a judgment. I don't care. I'm good at taking criticism. I'm good at taking criticism. It's okay. But, yeah, guys, let me know what you guys think about these topics, about the impacts of African-American mentors throughout the course of the lives of them. And, yeah, thank you guys for listening. And I'll see you guys later. Peace.