At the Field Museum, there is a display on “African Genius in the Americas” at the end of the Africa exhibit.
It reads:
African-Americans have created technologies, philosophies, religions, political movements and artistic expressions that have helped shape every culture in the Americas. By doing so, they’ve made all our lives much richer. This list of African-American innovators and innovations, as well as African-American contributions to our shared history, is far from complete. It’s merely a sampling of African-American genius.
This seems completely benign and appropriate at first glance, but please note the entry in the far bottom left of the picture as well as second from the top at far right. Find it here.
