Convicted Black Genius Uses Wakandan Intellect to Invent Machine for Push-Up Workouts

Raashed Hall using his invention

This guy didn’t invent this!

This is Wakanda gibberish from the media!

The Guardian:

After spending nearly two decades in prison, a Washington DC man is striving to rebuild his life by marketing and selling a workout machine he invented while serving his sentence.

Raashed Hall, 40, is getting his second chance through Georgetown University’s Pivot program, which is a nine-month course aimed at teaching entrepreneurship and building life skills for people who are returning from incarceration.

Up to 150 people apply for the program each year since it was founded in 2018. The program only accepts about 20 fellows annually, allowing them to earn a certificate and get hands-on training outside the classroom, according to a profile of Hall which the DC news outlet WJLA published on Monday.

Hall’s participation in the Pivot program came after he pleaded guilty in 2004 to a shooting which left an eight-year-old girl named Chelsea Cromartie dead. On the day of the killing, Hall had been out with his pregnant girlfriend, and they were drawn into a violent confrontation outside a carryout restaurant in DC that ended with the couple fleeing as someone fired several gunshots at them.

Hall then called his brother to bring him a gun and to drive him around in search of those who had attacked him, he admitted, according to a summary of the case in the Washington Post. They eventually spotted one of the attackers sitting on the porch of a home less than a mile away from the restaurant, and Hall fired the gun his brother had brought him at the assailant.

No one on the porch was hit. But Cromartie was inside watching television while she, her mother and her brother visited her aunt. One of the bullets which Hall fired crashed through the home’s window, hit Cromartie in the head and killed her. Cromartie’s aunt was also wounded, authorities said.

Hall told WJLA that he resolved to change his life while inside the walls of the prison where he served his sentence. He designed and patented a device that uses blocks and adjustable resistance bands to make push-ups more of an intense exercise.

If this is patented, then I don’t even know what that means.