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Cartoon Network is promoting ridiculous animated “anti-racist” PSAs, but, no surprise, their woke history lesson isn’t exactly fact-filled.
In a video that’s going viral, a character from the cartoon
Steven Universe asks a class “Who invented the light bulb?” When they respond, “Thomas Edison!” She says, "That's not entirely true. The light bulb could more rightfully be attributed to Lewis Latimer, the black inventor behind the filament inside the bulb." Then she gets angry and rants, “Thanks to systemic racism, most of your storytellers prioritized white accomplishments,” and claims history was "modified to make white readers comfortable." The PSA ends with the words “Tell the Whole Story - Be Anti-Racist.”