bemusedlybespectacled:muchymozzarella:pollyguo:‘Because when he saw nature, he didn’t se
bemusedlybespectacled:muchymozzarella:pollyguo:‘Because when he saw nature, he didn’t see waste. He saw everything had a purpose and everything had a usefulness. Everything could be used again and again and recycled back and forth. And so before we have the R’s (before we have recycle, reuse, reduce) that was him. He was organic pre-organic.When people go “what is important in black history?” they don’t think about the fact that we were up front in saying we cannot have all these chemicals in our food. We don’t get credit for that. Just like we don’t get credit for many things.’ - Elandria Williams of the Highlander Research and Education CenterI learned about George Washington Carver at school, but not that he was black, gay, or that he found so many uses for so many crops. I knew he was black and had invented 300+ uses for peanuts, but I didn’t know he was gay, or why he invented all those uses for peanuts. I just thought he really liked peanuts. -- source link
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