TL;DR - MTV Doesn't Understand History

   

TL;DR

 

Published on Feb 16, 2016

InB4 MTV falsely DMCA this video because it proves they are wrong about pretty much everything.

Source video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHDj4DH4mJw

Puffer jackets, invented by white people:
http://sportingclassicsdaily.com/issue/2015-1/article/sporting-life-a-brief-history-of-eddie-bauer
http://www.gq.com/story/dropping-knowledge-the-puffer-jacket
http://www.google.com/patents/USD119122?dq=D119122
http://www.eddiebauer.com/product/men-39-s-b-9-down-parka/10112657/_/A-ebSku_0015365971000080__10112657_catalog10002_en__US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bauer#1920.E2.80.931939:_Eddie_Bauer.27s_Sport_Shop

Shoes, not invented by black people:
http://company.crocs.com/faq/
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/D517790.html
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/D517788.html
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/D517789.html
http://pages.uoregon.edu/connolly/FRsandals.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100609-worlds-oldest-leather-shoe-armenia-science/
http://www.northampton.gov.uk/homepage/273/the_history_of_shoes

Cellphones and microphones invented by white people, one type of microphone improved by a white guy and a black guy, let's just ignore the white guy though:
http://www.biography.com/people/james-west-538802
http://mashable.com/2014/03/13/first-cellphone-on-sale/
http://mobilephones.umwblogs.org/invention/
http://www.stokowski.org/Development_of_Electrical_Recording.htm

Video games consoles and cartridges, invented by white people, funded, marketed and improved by a black guy (and his team which included the white guys):
http://www.biography.com/people/jerry-lawson-21330375
http://classicgames.about.com/od/classicvideogames101/p/FairchildChannelFProfile.htm
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/12/28/the-invention-of-the-game-cartridge
http://www.fastcompany.com/3040889/the-untold-story-of-the-invention-of-the-game-cartridge
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/tag/RAVEN
http://laughingsquid.com/a-fascinating-look-at-the-history-and-creation-of-the-video-game-cartridge/

IBM's ISA co-invented by a black guy and white guy.... let's just ignore the white guy though:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/inventors/dean.htm
http://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/mark-e-dean-and-dennis-l-moeller
http://invent.org/inductee-detail/?IID=38
http://invent.org/inductee-detail/?IID=104
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/i/isa.htm

Shoe lasting was legitimately made easier and better by the inventions of a (half) black guy.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/inventors/matzeliger.htm
http://www.biography.com/people/jan-matzeliger-21317107#invention-of-the-lasting-machine
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4410339/Shoe-lasting-machine-is-patented--March-20--1883
http://www.high-toned.fr/en/2013/04/john-lobb-bespoke-in-paris/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm3JcgE-0mU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Ernst_Matzeliger

"Light bulbs that last more than a few days" invented by a white guy and a black guy but a black guy alone did invent the filament, make of this one what you will given their mixed messages:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/inventions/10-inventions-by-african-americans6.htm
http://www.livescience.com/43424-who-invented-the-light-bulb.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Maxim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Howard_Latimer
https://www.google.com/patents/US252386
http://www.google.com/patents/US405239
https://www.google.com/patents/US247097

Potato Chips (aka Crisps) invented by a white English man, not a black guy.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/inventions/10-inventions-by-african-americans2.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10965628/Crisps-buoyed-Britain-in-its-darkest-hour.html
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gvcpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA208&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kitchiner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crum

Pacemakers, invented by white people:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/inventors/boykin.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2154721/
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-8159.1982.tb02226.x/abstract;jsessionid=768B4B202B047901AB087162DC4355B1.f04t02
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232561/
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/115/22/f109.full.pdf

Sources continued in comments.

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