Herb and Jamaal by Stephen Bentley

Herb and Jamaal

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  1. simpsonfan2

    simpsonfan2 said, 11 months ago

    G W Bush???

  2. win

    win said, 11 months ago

    @simpsonfan2

    Herb is not only cluess, I believe he is also mapless

  3. AshburnStadium

    AshburnStadium said, 11 months ago

    Yes, believe it or not, the explorer was George W. Bush (1779-1863) – and he was African-American. His middle name was Washington – he was named after the general who later became the 1st president of the U.S., not the 43rd, whose middle name was Walker.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Bush

  4. June Moffatt

    June Moffatt said, 11 months ago

    Of course those guys didn’t have maps—they were the map makers!

  5. celecca

    celecca said, 11 months ago

    and they’re all African Americans

  6. Dani Rice

    Dani Rice said, 11 months ago

    The stuff you learn reading the comics! I knew about Henson – he was from Baltimore – but had never heard of the others. Thanks, Stephen!

  7. nighthawks

    nighthawks said, 11 months ago

    the actual pattern here is to sneak in black history in a comic strip

  8. Daniel Kelly

    Daniel Kelly said, 11 months ago

    I’m a history geek and I know these facts, why are we not teaching this every day to all students in schools across America?I’ve had to teach these stories to my daughter myself. Black children and adults should take pride in their heritage and the important things their parents produced.The Tuskegee Airmen,the achievement of the north pole, the uses of the peanut,black soldiers service in all the american wars, I could go on.

  9. Triviaguy

    Triviaguy said, 11 months ago

    @Daniel Kelly

    I agree with every word. Everyday things we take for granted that were invented by Black Americans (and which you won’t learn about in school) include: the cell phone, the microwave, hinged mailbox, air conditioner, clothes dryer, fire escape, folding chair, pencil sharpener, stethoscope, the Super Soaker (yes, the water gun!), dust pan, telephone answering machine, spark plug, potato chips, curtain rod, fire extinguisher, and ironically, the golf tee. This is but a few of them.

  10. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 11 months ago

    @Daniel Kelly

    Just look at the process for getting text books produced. There are all kinds of pressure groups, in Texas it is the white right wing calling the shots for the other 49 states.

  11. Iris Gross

    Iris Gross said, 11 months ago

    Agree with Daniel.

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