The revisionist history by Black Nationalists/Racists (and their allies) is no different from what Adolf Hitler did with the revisionist Aryan history. In fact it is no different from when racists of all different ethnicities.
I did some research.
First the real inventor Robert Augustus Chesebroug took a couple years to actually develop the process. Before that it was an impure, not as efficient, and potentially dangerous in it's unprocessed form. The idea of "rubbing the residue of oil byproducts" isn't new. Ancient Romans and Greeks did it. When Whale oil was popular those that hunted whales would rub whale fat and byproducts on their body's as well.
So this isn't a new idea even then.
Let's go back to Titusville Pennsylvania,where workers (most of which were white) would use the byproduct.
Today black people make up less than 2 percent of the population. There is no evidence most, or even a majority of the workers were black. In fact evidence suggests otherwise. Both in census and pictures.
There wasn't a mass migration of black oil workers. In fact I haven't event found fringe theories that this was the case. This person just made it up and assumed all oil workers are black. I found no pictures or records of black people.
The revisionist history by Black Nationalists/Racists (and their allies) is no different from what Adolf Hitler did with the revisionist Aryan history. In fact it is no different from when racists of all different ethnicities.
I did some research.
First the real inventor Robert Augustus Chesebroug took a couple years to actually develop the process. Before that it was an impure, not as efficient, and potentially dangerous in it's unprocessed form. The idea of "rubbing the residue of oil byproducts" isn't new. Ancient Romans and Greeks did it. When Whale oil was popular those that hunted whales would rub whale fat and byproducts on their body's as well.
So this isn't a new idea even then.
Let's go back to Titusville Pennsylvania,where workers (most of which were white) would use the byproduct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titusville,_Pennsylvania
Today black people make up less than 2 percent of the population. There is no evidence most, or even a majority of the workers were black. In fact evidence suggests otherwise. Both in census and pictures.
https://www.aoghs.org/petroleum-pioneers/american-oil-history/
https://time.com/4008544/american-oil-well-history/
There wasn't a mass migration of black oil workers. In fact I haven't event found fringe theories that this was the case. This person just made it up and assumed all oil workers are black. I found no pictures or records of black people.