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TIL the first successful heart surgery was performed in 1893, by a black american surgeon that opened the first black owned and operated hospital in the USA. (youtu.be)

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I found this advertisement placard in a vinyl album, and decided to play the card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale_Williams

Edit pictures of the card https://pixelfed.ca/p/bane_killgrind/821853386900164062

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[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It has seemed for years that, with a large population of people with a superiority complex over others, Americans keep feeling the need to convince everyone that non-white people are, and have always been, just as useful and talented as white people.

Another take is "Breaking! People achieve things.. And some of those people have skin tones darker than pure ivory. Amaze!"