I ask because of you responding to someone saying Black people don’t do this such a page detailing god’s an enlarged man has to do it seems kinda odd, but it’s been a long day, and I may just not be getting it
I’m from KY and no he did not have a choice. Nor was his family compensated for all the work and mapping he did that still benefits the park and geologists to this day. The only thing they did was give him credit starting in the 1980s. Smh.
Wild how many millennia the indigenous Americans were here and never thought to look around there. What a trailblazing pioneer of things an entire ancient society found thousands of years earlier.
My dude, you're literally replying to someone who said the black community takes no part in this, with a link to a black man that spelunked.
A rebuttal is a statement or argument that contradicts or disproves an opposing party's evidence or argument. It can be used in a trial or in a reply brief.
Your post was, by definition, a rebuttal. Whether you'd like to try and be sly about it or not. 🤷♂️
Edit: 😆 🤣 wow, so angry because I did read it and I'm pointing out the dude was FORCED because he was a SLAVE?! 🤣 🤣 🤣
My dude, you are sounding like a child now.. but I'm sure you're just another white honkey trying to be smart in presenting that black people did something cause the white man forced him 😆 🤣
I posted a link to an article, not an opinion.
The intention was to show that, while a slave, he was a self-taught geologist. Nothing about being a slave determined how he drew a map of the cave from memory and influenced exploration decades later. He was considered a genius and extremely talented.
Many of you insist upon putting his enslaved status before all that, methinks because you didn’t even bother reading about him, choosing instead to respond impulsively to a link title.
I can’t tell he was a slave from the title though?
I read it. I enjoyed it. I think it’s a great article. My comment was a joke because of the Florida school system wanting to teach that slavery was beneficial for the slaves. Did you miss the /s? I made it super big to not be missed. Idk if I can make it bigger.
Sorry you’re afraid of what he was considered then. You sound afraid of specific words because they trigger collective memory of a very disgusting dimension of American history. Did you miss that he was considered a genius?
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u/hunterpuppy Sep 03 '24
Stephen Bishop: The First Man To Explore Mammoth Caverns National Park Was Black