So I just read an article about 11 black inventors who changed the world. Every person profiled in the article was indeed worthy of accolades. What sticks in my craw is the article's existence in the first place. I find it inherently racist. Its very existence suggests that a black person accomplishing something significant is especially noteworthy. It wasn't a list of notable inventors but rather, even more amazing, they were black inventors...like they somehow defied their own inferiority to succeed. "This person invented something great and holy smokes they were black!" I don't think that the author's conscious intent was derogatory, but she had to (at least subconsciously) find these inventors' race worthy of segregating them into a special list. The author couldn't just recognize and acclaim these people for the amazing things they did, she had to make it a special point that they did it while being black. To me, that's racist.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/86923/11-african-american-inventors-who-changed-world
