Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Says ‘Black Man, Rather Than Edison, Invented the Light Bulb’

By  //  September 4, 2020

Edison first invented the light bulb and a filament that could last 1,200 hours

WATCH: During a Thursday meeting with Kenosha, Wisconsin community leaders, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said that a Black man, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the light bulb.

(FOX NEWS) – During a Thursday meeting with Kenosha, Wisconsin community leaders, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said that a Black man, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the light bulb.

“People fear that which is different. We’ve got to, for example, why in God’s name don’t we teach history in history classes? A Black man invented the light bulb, not a White guy named Edison,” Biden said.

“There’s so much — did anybody know before what recently happened that Black Wall Street in Oklahoma was burned to the ground. Anybody know these things? Because we don’t teach them. We’ve got to give people facts.”

It was Edison who first invented the light bulb and a filament that could last 1,200 hours. According to the Department of Energy, Edison secured patents for the incandescent light bulb in 1879 and 1880.

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