Speaker 1: And now proper watching my mic back like that.
Speaker 2: Just striking water headporters. It's behind in the in the porters.
Speaker 1: If you're just tuning in to Civic Cipher, I'm your host,
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Speaker 1: a lot more show for you. We are going to
Speaker 1: be discussing more in depth how white supremacy arms white people.
Speaker 1: And before you start making up your mind on what
Speaker 1: I'm about to say, a lot of this research came
Speaker 1: from Forbes magazine, so there take that. We're also going
Speaker 1: to be talking about uh stainless steel and the inventor
Speaker 1: of stanless steel, because you didn't know that and I
Speaker 1: didn't know it either, So we're going to learn together
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Speaker 1: of Christians is signed an online Oh. First off, forgive me,
Speaker 1: this is a little late, but I did want to
Speaker 1: mention it so it'll sound a little dated. But I
Speaker 1: know that already. Okay. Thousands of Christians have signed an
Speaker 1: online petition by Faithful America demanding Tennessee House Speaker Cameron
Speaker 1: Sexton's resignation. The outrage comes as a response to sex
Speaker 1: organizing a vote that expelled to Democratic Tennessee lawmakers from
Speaker 1: the House. The lawmakers, Representative Justin Jones and Justin Pearson,
Speaker 1: spoke out of turn when they supported a youth led
Speaker 1: protest calling for gunner control following the shooting out of
Speaker 1: Nashville elementary school that left three students and three adults dead.
Speaker 1: Representative Gloria Johnson also spoke out of turn to participate
Speaker 1: in the protests. Tennessee Republican lawmakers have been accused of
Speaker 1: racism after they expelled Jones and Pearson, both black men,
Speaker 1: but by one vote, Johnson, who is white, was able
Speaker 1: to keep her seat. Now the better ally. Part of
Speaker 1: this is the Christians, the thousands of Christians who signed
Speaker 1: an online petition by Faithful America because rarely in this space,
Speaker 1: this space meaning Civic Cipher, do Q and I both
Speaker 1: get to shout out Christian folks were behaving in a
Speaker 1: manner consistent with what we know to be christ Like.
Speaker 1: So become a better ally by behaving like the people
Speaker 1: that you purport to worship. Once again, amen, all right,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about some ways that white supremacy harms
Speaker 1: white people. Again, a lot of this came from Forbes.
Speaker 1: A lot of this was some other independent research that
Speaker 1: we put together for today's show. And I do want
Speaker 1: to shout out Janice gassam Assare, who contributed hugely to
Speaker 1: what we're talking about today and in fact wrote some
Speaker 1: of this stuff. So before we get into this, I
Speaker 1: think that for much of my life, I thought of
Speaker 1: it as white supremacy benefiting all white people, and that
Speaker 1: to be white was to have like a golden ticket,
Speaker 1: which in many ways it is in this country. That's
Speaker 1: to a person like us.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I haven't seen that disproven.
Speaker 1: So okay, so let me tell you my story. I
Speaker 1: grew up. I met a kid named Kevin when I
Speaker 1: was little. Okay, he grew up to become Blue Leg CAF.
Speaker 1: He was three years old when I met him. I
Speaker 1: was seven years old, so I was always older than him,
Speaker 1: his big brother. So all of this stuff, for those
Speaker 1: that are familiar with the blot Leg CAF, all that
Speaker 1: stuff came from my CD books and my jerseys and
Speaker 1: all that, right, But I would go to his house
Speaker 1: and spend the night with him, hang out with his family.
Speaker 1: And Kevin grew up very poor. He grew up in
Speaker 1: an environment where there were a lot of drugs. He
Speaker 1: grew up where there was a lot of hopelessness, and
Speaker 1: a lot of the people that looked like him but
Speaker 1: older were into criminal activities to get money for drugs
Speaker 1: or to whatever to change their station of life. And
Speaker 1: I spent so much time with him, and of course
Speaker 1: I spent time in my own house, that I was
Speaker 1: able to see a lot of similarities and a lot
Speaker 1: of the things that I felt were issues in black life,
Speaker 1: they weren't not issues in his life. I knew that
Speaker 1: they would be a bigger issue over here, but that
Speaker 1: didn't mean that it didn't affect him. Just the same.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to make this come to life a
Speaker 1: little bit more as I kind of go through these,
Speaker 1: but you'll start to see what I mean. So I'll
Speaker 1: start one of the ways that white supremacy arms white
Speaker 1: people government programs. For those that are familiar with Chelsea Handler,
Speaker 1: the comedian, she had a twenty nineteen documentary called Hello Privilege,
Speaker 1: It's me Chelsea. In this documentary, Handler visits a group
Speaker 1: of white women from Orange County, California, and a discussion
Speaker 1: about white privilege ensuites. Women share their belief that people
Speaker 1: of color receive unearned privileges and unfair advantages in society
Speaker 1: in reality, In reality, the group that benefits the most
Speaker 1: from affirmative action programs are actually white women.
Speaker 3: And just to be clear, when he says in reality,
Speaker 3: he doesn't mean in the opinion of ramses in Q.
Speaker 3: He means the statistics in the data back that last statement.
Speaker 1: All right, let's put this nail in this coffin. The
Speaker 1: irony of this is that white women, according to reports,
Speaker 1: are actually some of the staunchest opponents of affirmative action programs.
Speaker 1: In addition, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
Speaker 3: Because the US and US Bureau is United States, not US.
Speaker 1: Okay, I love them when you put that punctuation, you know,
Speaker 1: that exclamation point there because it needs to be said.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that again. I'll say it again. The United
Speaker 1: States Bureau of Labor Statistics, thank you, reports that white
Speaker 1: people are the largest beneficiaries when it comes to government
Speaker 1: assistance programs. Remembright, I told you Kevin grew up poor.
Speaker 1: Now growing up, there's always been this attack on government
Speaker 1: assistance programs for families who are having a tough go
Speaker 1: at life. What they were always trying to do was
Speaker 1: single out black families. And if you, if I promise you,
Speaker 1: we can't do it today, well I'll do a deep
Speaker 1: dive one day, maybe for a way black history fact.
Speaker 1: But trace this all the way back to the Great
Speaker 1: Depression and see the origin story of these government assistance
Speaker 1: programs and see how they benefited white people. See how
Speaker 1: the tax code that was an active in this country
Speaker 1: was designed to help white people and harm black people. Like,
Speaker 1: there's so much stuff. There's racism. Racism is so many
Speaker 1: different things.
Speaker 3: This next line you're about to read, I'm about to please.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna skip it, but you know I love
Speaker 1: the fact that we do this show because I think
Speaker 1: that I love the fact that you keep it real.
Speaker 1: But I can learn all this stuff. I can learn
Speaker 1: that this country hated me from the moment I was born.
Speaker 3: I love the past tense that you put on that
Speaker 3: you were. I appreciate and admire you more than you
Speaker 3: could possibly imagine, sir, I can't I just because there's
Speaker 3: an hopeful there's a hopefulness and optimist optimism in Rams's
Speaker 3: spirit that is long gone from mine, and there's a
Speaker 3: balance that's required.
Speaker 1: I think that you're a little bit more based in reality,
Speaker 1: and I'm a little bit more optimistic about the future
Speaker 1: and those that's where we tend to focus our energies.
Speaker 1: But I think I'll do what you said. I'll read
Speaker 1: the next line. Racialized phrases like welfare queen have propagated
Speaker 1: the false narrative that black people, and particularly black women,
Speaker 1: are the ones who unfairly benefit from government programs. Now,
Speaker 1: we talked about a football player once upon a time
Speaker 1: on the show who was benefiting from the welfare program. Right,
Speaker 1: I think he was about as white as Casper the Ghost. Right.
Speaker 1: I don't know his name. His football dude he's a
Speaker 1: famous dude. I know that because I heard his name.
Speaker 1: I just don't know his name.
Speaker 3: His name is Brett Farr. That's him, So google Brett Farv.
Speaker 3: Is that a welfare que in Mississippi welfare? Because I
Speaker 3: feel like there's a lot to impact this, That's what
Speaker 3: I've had it.
Speaker 1: That sound like a welfare king to me. You probably
Speaker 1: got more money in everybody. But listen noth of that,
Speaker 1: and he was already rich that part. But I want
Speaker 1: to go back and reread this again because it's important
Speaker 1: to mention this. Some ways, white supremacy harms white people
Speaker 1: again government programs. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports
Speaker 1: that white people are the largest beneficiaries when it comes
Speaker 1: to assistance programs. In other words, white supremacy creating the
Speaker 1: false narrative that black people are disproportionately benefiting from welfare programs,
Speaker 1: causing far right politicians to attack government assistance programs will
Speaker 1: cut the knees off of needy white families way more
Speaker 1: than it will cut the knees off of black family
Speaker 1: because of the amount of white people that are benefiting
Speaker 1: from it. Again, check the US Bureau.
Speaker 3: And white people who would benefit from such programs, and
Speaker 3: do benefits from such programs vote in contradiction of those
Speaker 3: benefits something, because not because they don't know that it
Speaker 3: affects them, that they don't they know that they're benefiting
Speaker 3: from it, but because they think we are too not
Speaker 3: gonna be able to do it.
Speaker 1: So again, being white supremacist yourself causes you to maneuver
Speaker 1: in such a way that it ultimately is to your detriment.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: I also want to mention the Affordable Healthcare Act, which
Speaker 1: was rebranded by conservatives as Obamacare. We're talking about healthcare again,
Speaker 1: government programs, right, it helped.
Speaker 3: Did you guys hear what Ramas just did?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: He just did it to mimic what they did the
Speaker 3: Affordable Healthcare Act. It's very hard to stand opposed to that.
Speaker 3: When you have tens of millions of people that can't
Speaker 3: go to the doctor when they're sick. It's hard to
Speaker 3: ask those people to vote for you while you oppose
Speaker 3: something called the Affordable Healthcare Act. Right, But if you
Speaker 3: can racially charge a group of people that you know
Speaker 3: will respond the way you want them to with regards
Speaker 3: to black people, you call it obamacare. You know, the
Speaker 3: black guy that you guys don't like it's his program.
Speaker 3: Forget that it will benefit you. Just go out there
Speaker 3: and work against him with us.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm glad you said that, because I
Speaker 1: remember seeing all of the interviews at that time where
Speaker 1: people would get interviewed and like, so, what are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on Obamacare? Oh, I can't stand Obamacare. The country
Speaker 1: is going you know what, So what is it about
Speaker 1: Obamacare that you don't like? Well, I don't know too
Speaker 1: much about it, but I know that Obamacare is not
Speaker 1: good for us because you know, we got to be
Speaker 1: able to pick our Well, you can't pick your doctor
Speaker 1: under Obamacare. Well, you know, there's there's some things wrong
Speaker 1: with it, and I don't know the particulars, but I know.
Speaker 1: And this is I remember this was incredibly prevalent at
Speaker 1: the time. So many people had so much to say
Speaker 1: about it, and they weren't saying anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those same people are still being interviewed, the same people. Somehow,
Speaker 3: their reporters are going out and find the same people
Speaker 3: for people they feel about critical race theory. I hate it.
Speaker 3: Well why I don't know. Oh, okay, understood.
Speaker 1: So watch this. The Affordable Healthcare Act helped white families
Speaker 1: four times as frequently as it helped black fans four times.
Speaker 3: Doesn't sound like a lot.
Speaker 1: That's four hundred percent more. There you go. So so
Speaker 1: for again, people pushing back against it based purely on
Speaker 1: white supremacist ideals, like if you want to be critical
Speaker 1: of a government program by all means if you want
Speaker 1: to help it get in better shape by means. We're
Speaker 1: critical of government programs here, namely the police. Right, we're
Speaker 1: not saying that. But if it's purely based on race
Speaker 1: and no other factors, then we call that white supremacy.
Speaker 1: And then you start to see how it works against
Speaker 1: even our Caucasian brothers and sisters. Because no matter what,
Speaker 1: I will always say, even these people that hate my guys,
Speaker 1: you are my brother and you're my sister, and I
Speaker 1: hope that you find your way. All right, let's move
Speaker 1: on some other ways. White supremacy harms white people and
Speaker 1: stifles innovation, creates corporate blind spots. I want to share
Speaker 1: this example that I learned when I was in college. Okay,
Speaker 1: so humble brag here. I went to school, have a
Speaker 1: master's theory, right, don't need it to talk on the radio.
Speaker 1: But that one, okay, went to business school, and I
Speaker 1: learned marketing in my undergrad and did a case study
Speaker 1: on Colgate as in toothpaste toothpaste. I wanted to sell
Speaker 1: Colgate toothpaste in Mexico. Right, it seems simple. Let's let's
Speaker 1: let's sell in Mexico. There's tons of people there. Let's
Speaker 1: get some money. Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3: We already got the US on Locke.
Speaker 1: We might as well get some of that Mexico money.
Speaker 1: Pay something in Mexico. Absolutely right, smart move, except when
Speaker 1: you don't have diversity, when you have white supremacist ideals
Speaker 1: either like in the front of your brainer, kind of
Speaker 1: tucked in the back where it's we call those implicit
Speaker 1: bias implicit biases. There you go where you're just like
Speaker 1: a room full of white people, and you feel surprisingly comfortable.
Speaker 1: There's nothing missing here. Let's just go to Mexico and
Speaker 1: do what we do in America. Right. What you end
Speaker 1: up with is putting a product on a shelf called
Speaker 1: hold that thee not coldgate, hold that the and cold
Speaker 1: ate in Spanish means go hang yourself.
Speaker 3: Oh that'll move a lot of toothpaste, so or not.
Speaker 1: And that's just one kind of lighthearted example but there's
Speaker 1: tons of examples like this, where again we're talking about
Speaker 1: how white supremacy stifles innovation. I'll read a bit more.
Speaker 1: Research from Mackenzie found that racial and ethnic diversity also
Speaker 1: led to greater financial returns for corporations. One of the
Speaker 1: main tenets of white supremacy is the belief that whites
Speaker 1: should live by themselves in a whites only society. When
Speaker 1: there is no diversity within a group, the same ideas,
Speaker 1: thoughts and beliefs create an echo chamber. Organizations with a
Speaker 1: homogeneous makeup will find it challenging to remain competitive in
Speaker 1: the future as the country becomes more racially diverse. In
Speaker 1: other words, you should probably have somebody on your board,
Speaker 1: in your c suite, in your upper management, in your
Speaker 1: middle management, that looks different from you, no matter what
Speaker 1: color you are, right, because we live in a world
Speaker 1: where there's lots of different colors. And the truth is
Speaker 1: global enterprises will survive into the future. This is like
Speaker 1: the highest tier. The final form of capitalism is that
Speaker 1: global corporations will consume everything. That's the only outcome. Once
Speaker 1: drones start delivering everything your mom and pop shops down
Speaker 1: the street, Once AI takes all the jobs global corporations,
Speaker 1: and how do you sell in Africa where there's high
Speaker 1: illiteracy rates. You can't put a picture of a baby
Speaker 1: on baby formula because they think pictures represent what's in
Speaker 1: the jar. You have to know that, So you need
Speaker 1: people who have experience beyond your boardroom to inform you
Speaker 1: that if you put a Gerber baby can a baby
Speaker 1: food on a shelf, people will look at the baby
Speaker 1: face and think you blended a baby and put it
Speaker 1: in a jar. They won't know that it's for baby
Speaker 1: food because of the hype of literacy.
Speaker 4: That's a hyper literal example, but thank you. You guys
Speaker 4: can translate, all right, So let's move on some other ways.
Speaker 4: White supremacy harms white people, ruining the environment.
Speaker 1: We all got this one.
Speaker 3: We laugh because the actuality of it is terrifying. This
Speaker 3: is not a potential outcome. This is a real life
Speaker 3: happening right now to us, tragedy that only happened because
Speaker 3: of people's personal political agendas tied to their love of
Speaker 3: capitalist white supremacy, only singularly, because the outcomes have for
Speaker 3: decades been obvious and disgustingly avoidable if we weren't so
Speaker 3: greedy so shortsighted and so racist.
Speaker 1: Let me make that live, please, all right? Ruining the environment.
Speaker 1: In some ways, white supremacy harms life, and less understood
Speaker 1: outcome of white supremacy is that it's harmful to the planet.
Speaker 1: Hob Hopkins wrote, you can't live or sorry. You can't
Speaker 1: have climate change without sacrifice zones, and you can't have
Speaker 1: sacrifice zones without disposable people, and you can't have disposable
Speaker 1: people without racism. Environmental racism is defined as the disproportionate
Speaker 1: impact of environmental hazards on people of color. White supremacy
Speaker 1: supports them belief that whites should have dominance over people
Speaker 1: of cover color. This dominance manifests in different ways, including
Speaker 1: the treatment starting the treating of BIPOC communities as disposable.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about Flint, Michigan. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: black folks who live there. Yeah, shut out, Is it
Speaker 1: all black people?
Speaker 2: Don't?
Speaker 1: Nope, absolutely not. Some white folks live there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but those are the poor whites. Yeah wait, well yeah,
Speaker 3: but they've been convinced that they have nothing in common
Speaker 3: with their poor black neighbors.
Speaker 1: Well, then let's move on.
Speaker 3: So they support policy and politics that are championed by
Speaker 3: their richer white supremacists quote unquote allies, colleagues, cohorts.
Speaker 1: It's a weird world.
Speaker 3: We let they go out in March and vote against
Speaker 3: their own best interests to continue to support white supremacy.
Speaker 3: But I'll let you continue.
Speaker 1: That's not the only one. We talked about Jackson, Mississippi
Speaker 1: and the water there eighty percent black, right, but that's
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent black. But we can go all
Speaker 1: the way back to Hurricane Katrina, the slow, lots of
Speaker 1: lethargic response.
Speaker 3: There hundreds of thousands of misplaced white people, maybe millions
Speaker 3: of misplaced white people.
Speaker 1: But because there's a lot of black folks there, so
Speaker 1: again a lethargic response, limberistic response by the government. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about fracking on indigenous lambs.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The long and the short of this is that white
Speaker 1: folks were affected, are affected, have will always been, and
Speaker 1: will be will be. But there's this narrative that allows
Speaker 1: white people to insulate themselves from these issues because again
Speaker 1: of implicit bias, and because of the fact that oftentimes
Speaker 1: our perception is reality. It's perceived that we live into
Speaker 1: different Americans, and that's not true. There's one planet, one country. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so let's add a few more points here
Speaker 1: before we move on. Even if there were no black people,
Speaker 1: Mexican people, or Hispanic people, or Latin people, Asian people,
Speaker 1: Native people, right, even if everybody was white. What we've seen,
Speaker 1: what history has shown us, is that even white folks
Speaker 1: will stratify themselves. Who's the blondest, What nation did you
Speaker 1: come from? You know? This is what white supremacy does.
Speaker 1: White supremacy will even eat white people. And this is
Speaker 1: what we're seeing. There's no escape. It is a monster.
Speaker 3: I used the word misplaced earlier, I meant displaced white
Speaker 3: people and all of those communities that suffer from all
Speaker 3: those problems Hurricane Katrina, Jacksonnsissippi and flat Michigan with the water,
Speaker 3: and several other things that have happen throughout our history.
Speaker 3: What we know is that capitalism praise on the poor, right,
Speaker 3: and because there are so many more poor than rich people,
Speaker 3: capitalism should collapse. Except if you can take those of
Speaker 3: us that are white and convince us that are our
Speaker 3: kinship and our bond as being white is more important
Speaker 3: than the fact that I'm standing on your neck as well,
Speaker 3: then I can get you to vote and support things
Speaker 3: that benefit me because I'm also white. I'm rich, you're poor,
Speaker 3: and so are everyone that you live with in.
Speaker 1: Our realities are entirely different. Yes, but we have the
Speaker 1: same skin. But we're both white.
Speaker 3: So that's not understand with the Mexican, Asian and Black
Speaker 3: people that live in your community.
Speaker 1: Stand with me, so let me let me let me
Speaker 1: put another one here, police brutality. Police brutality is often
Speaker 1: associated with black people, but police violence affects white people too.
Speaker 1: Why do you think the police and culture exists? Why
Speaker 1: do you think police are so well protected? Is because
Speaker 1: they need to be protected from black people. Guess what.
Speaker 1: It puts a barrier between accountability for white folks too.
Speaker 1: He saw in Mexico the other day police kicked in
Speaker 1: a door in New Mexico, killed a man dead. Wrong address. Well,
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Speaker 1: talking about James A. Parsons Junior was born nineteen hundred
Speaker 1: and lived through nineteen eighty nine. He was a scientist, inventor,
Speaker 1: and university professor whose research with rust resistant medals and
Speaker 1: iron alloys was credited with leading to the development of
Speaker 1: stainless steel. During his lifetime, he received several patents pertaining
Speaker 1: to medals. For his achievements, Parsons was highly respected among
Speaker 1: his peers in the scientific commun and widely regarded as
Speaker 1: one of the nation's leading metallurgists. Just so you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of science words here. I don't know
Speaker 1: how to say. I'm so bear with me, all right,
Speaker 1: here we go. James Albert Parsons, Junior was born in Dayton, Ohio,
Speaker 1: on May thirty, nineteen hundred. His father was a butler
Speaker 1: in the home of an executive at the Durion dur
Speaker 1: Iron Company. I think that's a dur Iron company, a
Speaker 1: metals manufacturing firm. When Parsons was young, his extraordinary ability
Speaker 1: in mathematics came to the attention of his father's employer.
Speaker 1: Parsons attended Steel High School in Dayton, and, after graduating
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventeen, turned down an opportunity to attend the
Speaker 1: United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Instead He took
Speaker 1: an interim job at the Durian Company as boundary laborer,
Speaker 1: and in nineteen eighteen began his undergraduate studies at the
Speaker 1: highly competitive Rensseller Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Durion
Speaker 1: provided Parsons with summer ployment while he was in college
Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty two, Wrenslar Yearbooks. Yearbook describes Parsons as hardworking, ambitious,
Speaker 1: and popular with his peers. His love of music gave
Speaker 1: him the nickname Jazz, and his dormitory room was a
Speaker 1: hub for aficionados like himself. He was also known for
Speaker 1: his love of smoking a big black pipe and being
Speaker 1: generous was sharing his tobacco with friends. Yearbook notes that
Speaker 1: Parsons spent a lot of his spare time at the
Speaker 1: pool and was such a skillful enthusiastic swimmer that some
Speaker 1: of his classmates call him Fish Parsons. He studied electoral
Speaker 1: chemistry and electoral metallurgy while majoring in electrical engineering, and
Speaker 1: was a member of the AIAA Club. After wren Neisseller,
Speaker 1: Parsons returned to his hometown and was hired by Dryan
Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty two the job of analytical chemist, a
Speaker 1: position that was certainly more fitted to his credentials and
Speaker 1: intellect then boundary labor. He worked with aluminium bronze and
Speaker 1: made a lasting contribution to the Aluminum Bronze Foundation. In
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty seven, Parsons won the prestigious Harmon Foundation Award
Speaker 1: in Science, the first of its kind, for the advances
Speaker 1: he made with rust resistant non corrosive medals. His gold
Speaker 1: medal was presented by Orville Wright, one of Ohio's most
Speaker 1: famous sons, and Charles Kettering, an acclaimed engineer, gave the
Speaker 1: address for the event. During the early nineteen thirties, Parsons
Speaker 1: continued to rise through the Dryan Company ranks.
Speaker 3: That's Orville Right of the very famous Right brothers corect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. In nineteen thirty five, Deryan had a
Speaker 1: reputation as the sole world manufacturer of specific kinds of
Speaker 1: non corrosive metals. A nineteen thirty nine article in the
Speaker 1: Journal of Negro Education mentions that the president of Dryon
Speaker 1: wrote Parsons laudatory an appreciative letter wrote him a laudatory
Speaker 1: and appreciative letter, praising his performance and his valuable development work,
Speaker 1: as well as commending him for his patents for the firm.
Speaker 1: With the patents, the firm had been credited with sorry
Speaker 1: because of parsons accomplishments. Citing parsons executive ability, the letter
Speaker 1: indicated that he was not only superlative in his chosen
Speaker 1: field of electoral engineering, but could hold his own in
Speaker 1: chemistry and metallurgy. Between nineteen twenty nine and nineteen forty nine,
Speaker 1: Parsons received eight patents pertaining to the development and application
Speaker 1: of non corrosive metals, which were credited to the Deryon Company.
Speaker 1: In nineteen twenty nine, he received a patent number one million,
Speaker 1: seven hundred and twenty eight three hundred and sixty on
Speaker 1: an iron alloy, and four years later he acquired another
Speaker 1: patent for discovering a way to make silicon iron compounds.
Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty four nineteen thirty five, Parsons acquired additional
Speaker 1: patents for inventing a process treatment of silicone ally castings.
Speaker 1: During the two year span between nineteen thirty eight nineteen
Speaker 1: forty Parsons received three patents on corrosion resisting ferris alloy,
Speaker 1: not one to rest on his laurels. He achieved an
Speaker 1: additional patent on a sementation process for treating medals in
Speaker 1: nineteen forty three. Parsons was awarded his final patent in
Speaker 1: nineteen forty five for a nickel based alloy.
Speaker 3: Parsons was a bad boy man.
Speaker 1: I'm skipping a lot of this because I can't even
Speaker 1: read the words. Listen. He's doing the most all right,
Speaker 1: According to Margaret Peters, who interviewed Stevens and has written
Speaker 1: extensively about the notable Black Ohions, six of the patents
Speaker 1: were issued solely to Parsons, one was issued to Parsons
Speaker 1: an earl rider, and another was credited to Parsons and
Speaker 1: Guy Baker. All of the patents were assigned to the
Speaker 1: Dryan Company. Parsons scientific achievements did not go unnoticed by
Speaker 1: the African American academic community. Wilber Force University, a historically
Speaker 1: black Ohio university, award, awarded Parsons an honorary Doctorate of
Speaker 1: Science at its June nineteen forty one commencement. In the
Speaker 1: nineteen forties, Parsons became the chief metallurgist and a laboratory
Speaker 1: manager at the Deriding Company Parsons Department, which was comprised
Speaker 1: of an entirely African American staff, with chemical expertise, researched aluminum, bronze,
Speaker 1: and tested treating iron and steel to be resistant to
Speaker 1: the corrosiveness of assets such as sulphuric and hydrochloric. Parsons
Speaker 1: was so successful in discovering new measures for testing and
Speaker 1: protecting metals from corrosion that by nineteen fifty he was
Speaker 1: widely recognized as one of the nation's leading scientists. An
Speaker 1: expert on rust resistant medals, James A. Parsons was dedicated
Speaker 1: to excellence. Its patents are a testament to his abilities
Speaker 1: to achieve beyond the ordinary in his chosen field. His
Speaker 1: career as a college professor shows his willingness to share
Speaker 1: his knowledge and skills with future generations of engineers, scientists,
Speaker 1: and inventors. And I do want to say, because of
Speaker 1: time being short, we did leave out a little bit
Speaker 1: about his time as a teacher, and we left out
Speaker 1: the entire list, the timeline list of his patents. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I kind of just picked some of those.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he got like nine and all of the
Speaker 3: numbers are in the millions, so we would have been
Speaker 3: reading for a long time. I'm trying to get him.
Speaker 1: Numbers and this is radios numbers wouldn't have meant nothing
Speaker 1: to you, but there were patents.
Speaker 3: It's suffice to say.
Speaker 1: But again, James A. Parsons Junior, another person to look
Speaker 1: up next time you're in your kitchen dealing with your
Speaker 1: silverware or you know whatever. Just know that this is
Speaker 1: kind of the origin story for all of that, and
Speaker 1: another origin story that I did not know about, you know,
Speaker 1: And I do want to say this while we got
Speaker 1: a couple of seconds left. A lot of times, really basis,
Speaker 1: white folks try to say that we're trying to say
Speaker 1: that black people invented everything, and that's not true. We
Speaker 1: recognize that white folks invented a lot of stuff and
Speaker 1: everyone right, But we want our seat at the table
Speaker 1: and we want our acknowledgement. So that's what this is for.
Speaker 1: With that said, that's going to do it for us
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