{"id":8673,"date":"2025-09-12T07:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/?p=8673"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:24:15","slug":"black-americans-built-this-country-forced-to-work-as-slaves-and-despite-these-conditions-some-invented-important-devices-such-as-the-cotton-gin-and-elevators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/12\/black-americans-built-this-country-forced-to-work-as-slaves-and-despite-these-conditions-some-invented-important-devices-such-as-the-cotton-gin-and-elevators\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Americans built this country, forced to work as slaves, and despite these conditions, some invented important devices such as the cotton gin and elevators."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>George Floyd was from my hometown of Houston, Texas, and attended a high school that received poor support from the HISD system, which shaped his life experiences and highlights systemic inequities faced by Black Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He faced mistreatment throughout his life, most notably during the incident with Derek Chauvin, who pressed his knee on Floyd&#8217;s neck for over nine minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a young Black female had not recorded what happened, the world might not have believed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, color, religion, race, ethnicity, and nationality do not matter because we are equal at birth and at death, and that principle should guide how we confront injustice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black Americans built this country, forced to work as slaves, and despite these conditions, some invented important devices such as the cotton gin and elevators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must continue to expose racist individuals who influence discrimination against working people and us, especially among those holding leadership or influencer roles, to advance true equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" src=\"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/300-1-512x342.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8674\" srcset=\"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/300-1-512x342.jpg 512w, http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/300-1-255x170.jpg 255w, http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/300-1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/300-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Floyd was from my hometown of Houston, Texas, and attended a high school that received poor support from the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8675,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions\/8675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}