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African-American inventor Eugene Burkins and his machine gun, USA, sometime at or after 1900 (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I’m not sure. If I would be African-American, I would be much prouder if it’s would simply say “American inventor”. But since I’m plain white, perhaps I better shut up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

There's a long history and a lot of context to it, unfortunately.