Since it's "African-American History Month" in the month of February having only 28-29 days and being the shortest month of the year. To many people who do not know this, there have been African-Americans through out history who have contributed a lot to the advancement of human kind. For example, Benjamin Thornton was the one who invented the answering machine and later from that idea a Japanese man who invent voice mail from it. But when you go on
www.wikipedia.org; mentions nothing about Benjamin Thornton and his contributions to inventing the answering machine. Yet everywhere else in history and online he is mentioned along with everyother African-American who has invented some thing useful for the human race. Where am I going with this you may ask? Give African-Americans their credit. For example; if it wasn't for the Egyptians or some will say the Mesopotamians (either way, they are both from Africa) developed a substances that we call soap which today is used to clean our bodies and kills germs and bacteria. So here is a link to learn more about our African brothers and sisters that contributed to our world. For Africa is the dawn of human race, its been proven through Evolution and the Bible as well. There is nothing "Afrocentric" about this when they are simple the facts....
http://inventors.about.com/library/blblackinventors.htm
