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Salute To Black History Month: Black Inventors You Should Know…Everyday items and innovations,from the simple to the profound,that have permanently changed our lives…Here are just a few of them…Potatoe chips-impossible were invented by Chef George Crum in[1853].A customer sent back the french fries he’d prepared,complaining that they were cut too thick.Chef Crum took a potatoe sliced it thin as he could and fried the pieces.The result was the first potatoe chips ever made…..Open Heart Surgery-[1893]thats the year African American Cardiologist Daniel Hale Williams performd one of the world’s first open-heart surgeries.He repaired the torn pericardium of a patient with a knife wound….Blood Bank-are you a blood donor? Today’s blood banks are the result of the work done by Dr.Charles Drew in the[1930s]….Gas Mask- Garrett Morgan invented the gas mask in[1912]and saved countless lives during WW1.He was also the first person to patent The Traffic Light….Clock-tick tock goes the clock.In the late[1750's]Benjamin Banneker took apart a pocket watch,studied its components and the created the clock made in the U.S. He made the entire thing out of wooden pieces he carved himself….Surgical Stitching Technique-In[2010],then 15-year old Tony Hansberry 11,a student at a magnate high school for medicine,created a new Surgical Technique to sew up Hysterectomy Patients to lessen their risk of complications.Just Fifteen years old…Automatic Refrigeration System-used in long haul trucks and railroad cars.Frederick Mckinley Jones also invented Air Conditioning Units used in military field hospitals and portable x-ray machines….These are just a few of African American Inventions…Amazing Ugh?
Since[2/3] of the[1.2]billion Catholics live outside of Europe and the U.S.,primarily in Africa and South America,there are many Vatican watchers who speculate that the Cardinals may be ready to break with centuries of tradition and choose a Non White Pope…However,there are still a couple of Non-White contenders considered on the short list…Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana,who at the age of[64]is probably the favorite to succeed Benedict,and Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga,[70],a Honduran who was President of The Latin American Episcopal Conference…Whoever knew most Catholics live outside of Europe and the U.S.,primarily in Africa and South America…Live and Learn.
Africa: Why The Next Pope Should be African: In Europe and The U.S.the church has become Self and Sex Obsessed,out of touch with modern views on sexuality and the rights of individuals and discredited by its failure to face up to its child abuse scandals…The inevitable product of a celibate priesthood.That has undermined its credibility…In Africa,where polygamy is still accepted,many priests have wives and children but that is often an open secret,not an issue that seems to trouble their communities…Spirtual Leaders have more pressing and essential issues to confront…In a Rich Continent full of Poor People,Death and Disease are never far away…At a national level Catholic Leaders are Respected and Trusted when they Speak Out on Social and Economic Justice.Which many of them do with far more Passion and Credibility than their Western Counterparts…Would an African Pope change the church attitude to Homosexuality? Highly Unlikely but on Social Justice,both Local and International,expect a far more Forthright and Vigorous Voice…The Last Two Popes have tried to Restore; even Recreate; the Church as a Conservative,European,Central Institution, Maintaining all The Trappings of a Secretive and Authoritarian Ecclesiastical Monarchy…An African Pope would be freed from this baggage…He could Restore The Church’s Universal Vision by Moving Out of The Vatican and Bequeath its Magnificent; but almost exclusively European Renaissance; Treasures to The World…He could then Rebase The Spirtual,Emotional and Geographical Centre of The Church somewhere closer to a Crossroads of Modern Humanity,a Region where Judaism,Christianity and Islam began,a place where Religion is most intensely felt,where the Destiny of Humanity itself may be forged: Jerusalem.