Black History Month. Celebrating Excellence

[Asclepias]

"What person of Black heritage played a very pivotal role in putting America on the moon?"

Katherine Johnson.

Katherine G. Johnson The HistoryMakers

"Johnson went on to join the Spacecraft Controls Branch where she calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American to go into space in 1959. Johnson also verified the mathematics behind John Glenn’s orbit around the Earth in 1962 and calculated the flight trajectory for Apollo 11’s flight to the moon in 1969. She retired from NASA in 1986."

Shepard didn't go into space in '59. It was '61.

It said calculated the flight trajectory. Typically they do that long before you actually go into space.

 

[reconmark]

Alford L. McMichael (born February 24, 1952) is a retired United States Marine who served as the 14th Sergeant Major of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1999 to 2003. He was also the first Senior Non-Commissioned Officer for Allied Command Operations for NATO (2003–2006). McMichael retired from the Marine Corps in 2006 after 36 years of service.

 

[reconmark]

Black mathematicians: the kind of problems they wish didn't need solving
Jonathan Farley

In reality, black mathematicians face career-retarding racism that white Fields medallists never encounter. Three stories will suffice to make this point.

The first involves Saunders Mac Lane, one of the most influential algebraists of the last century. He co-authored, with Garrett Birkhoff, a text that enthralled me as a first-year undergraduate. I first encountered lattice theory, which for a long time I loved more than anything in life, in that book. In 1951, Mac Lane was president of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Vanderbilt University hosted an MAA conference, and three black mathematicians wished to attend the conference's banquet. They were barred and Mac Lane refused to take a stand: Vanderbilt University was in racially segregated Tennessee, and he did not want to offend his hosts.


Black mathematicians the kind of problems they wish didn t need solving Jonathan Farley World news The Guardian

 

[whitehall]

Why do we still insist on judging people on the basis of the color of their skin in the 21st century? Why do we make a distinction between Asian, Black and Hispanic owned businesses? There are tens of thousands of stories in the last forty or fifty years of (legal) immigrants literally getting off the boat with a couple of dollars and enduring discrimination and lack of knowledge about the language and creating businesses in a couple of years. Illegal immigrants die in the desert trying to get to the greatest, most tolerant and prosperous Country in the world and all whiny liberals can say is that they heard of a business owned by a Black guy.

 

[Asclepias]

Why do we still insist on judging people on the basis of the color of their skin in the 21st century? Why do we make a distinction between Asian, Black and Hispanic owned businesses? There are tens of thousands of stories in the last forty or fifty years of (legal) immigrants literally getting off the boat with a couple of dollars and enduring discrimination and lack of knowledge about the language and creating businesses in a couple of years. Illegal immigrants die in the desert trying to get to the greatest, most tolerant and prosperous Country in the world and all whiny liberals can say is that they heard of a business owned by a Black guy.

No one is judging anyone. We are pointing out examples of unknown Black history. Why do white people always get offended over that? I cant seem to figure it out. It would be like me getting offended over whites establishing New York or something.

 

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Though these black recruits were met with racial prejudice and open hostility, they were expected to receive “equal training” as the others at Parris Island. Boot camp demanded constant activity, from learning Marine Corps discipline to mastering the use of hand-to-hand combat, rifles, and bayonets. Though kept very busy, the Recruits found time for playing cards, conversation, cigarettes, sports, and occasionally sharing mail from home, which formed a tight bond between them. This close camaraderie was incredible in its formation, helping balance the extreme prejudice, vigorous training, and frequently harsh environments that they faced


Though the presence of black drill instructors and the career aspirations of those at camp helped to temper racial prejudice somewhat within Montford Point, the situation out in the community was very different. The men of Montford Point faced extreme racism of all forms while in Onslow County, from having to sit in segregated, and less comfortable, seating on buses and trains and in theaters, to being required by police to stay out of “white areas” of surrounding communities or being asked to leave certain establishments.

The Montford Point Marines from MarineParents.com A Place to Connect Share

 

[whitehall]

Why do we still insist on judging people on the basis of the color of their skin in the 21st century? Why do we make a distinction between Asian, Black and Hispanic owned businesses? There are tens of thousands of stories in the last forty or fifty years of (legal) immigrants literally getting off the boat with a couple of dollars and enduring discrimination and lack of knowledge about the language and creating businesses in a couple of years. Illegal immigrants die in the desert trying to get to the greatest, most tolerant and prosperous Country in the world and all whiny liberals can say is that they heard of a business owned by a Black guy.

No one is judging anyone. We are pointing out examples of unknown Black history. Why do white people always get offended over that? I cant seem to figure it out. It would be like me getting offended over whites establishing New York or something.

The best you can do for "unknown Black history" is to point to a Black guy who owns a local business? The hypocrite part comes when when liberals make fun of success stories like Condie Rice, Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson and call them "uncle Tom's" while making believe that a Black person who owns a business is something special.

 

[Asclepias]

Why do we still insist on judging people on the basis of the color of their skin in the 21st century? Why do we make a distinction between Asian, Black and Hispanic owned businesses? There are tens of thousands of stories in the last forty or fifty years of (legal) immigrants literally getting off the boat with a couple of dollars and enduring discrimination and lack of knowledge about the language and creating businesses in a couple of years. Illegal immigrants die in the desert trying to get to the greatest, most tolerant and prosperous Country in the world and all whiny liberals can say is that they heard of a business owned by a Black guy.

No one is judging anyone. We are pointing out examples of unknown Black history. Why do white people always get offended over that? I cant seem to figure it out. It would be like me getting offended over whites establishing New York or something.

The best you can do for "unknown Black history" is to point to a Black guy who owns a local business? The hypocrite part comes when when liberals make fun of success stories like Condie Rice, Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson and call them "uncle Tom's" while making believe that a Black person who owns a business is something special.

Did you read the thread? It doesnt seem like it. Where did you see a post about a guy that owns a local business without relevance? I dont understand what Thomas and Carson being negropeans have to do with what they accomplished in history. I love Rice.

 

[Harry Dresden]

"What person of Black heritage played a very pivotal role in putting America on the moon?"

Katherine Johnson.

Katherine G. Johnson The HistoryMakers

"Johnson went on to join the Spacecraft Controls Branch where she calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American to go into space in 1959. Johnson also verified the mathematics behind John Glenn’s orbit around the Earth in 1962 and calculated the flight trajectory for Apollo 11’s flight to the moon in 1969. She retired from NASA in 1986."

What about all of the non-blacks who worked with her who were just as instrumental in that effort as she was? They don't deserve any recognition because they're not black? That is blatant racism.

you can mention them when Non-Black History Month comes up.....

 

[koshergrl]

There's a great facebook slideshow going around showing all the disney characters if they were a different race.

It takes the few white characters (there aren't many) and turns them into colored ladies...

And then takes the colored ladies (think Mulan, Pocahontas, the princess and the frog girl) and they give them a different brown or asian color. They didn't change anyone's ethnicity to white. Go figure.

Disney Princesses Reimagined As Different Ethnicities Look Absolutely Beautiful Bored Panda

 

[Godboy]

Who was the first slave owner in the US?

You can learn all kinds of stuff on BHM.

 

[Coyote]

This thread has been moved to Race/Race Relations in order to put it under stricter moderation. It's been split into two: there is a Badlands thread for those that can't resist trashing threads and there is this one.

Zone 2 rules mean no derailing the topic with fly by flames, posts must include some content related to the topic (hint: the title). Let's keep it nice and reserve the Badlands for the flaming.

 

[reconmark]

Who was the first slave owner in the US?

You can learn all kinds of stuff on BHM.

Yes, many people were too stupid to realize the difference between an indentured servant and a slave.
BHM helped to educate them, except for the truly stupid.



Though Casor was the first person declared a slave in a civil case, there were both black and white indentured servants sentenced to lifetime servitude before him. Many historians describe indentured servant John Punch as the first documented slave in America, as he was sentenced to life in servitude as punishment for escaping in 1640.[16][17] The Punch case was significant because it established the disparity between his sentence as a negro and that of the two European indentured servants who escaped with him (one described as Dutch and one as a Scotchman). It is the first documented case in Virginia of an African sentenced to lifetime servitude. It is considered one of the first legal cases to make a racial distinction between black and white indentured servants.[18][19]

Guess that lets the air out of that "first slave owner is the U.S." non-sense..

 

[JQPublic1]

Who was the first slave owner in the US?

You can learn all kinds of stuff on BHM.

There is something strange about this case! Why would Johnson sue Parker, Casor's employer? Parker wasn't claiming to own Casor. Why wouldn't the court just remand the ex-indentured man back to his previous contract owner? After all, Johnson was illiterate and was hardly in a position to challenge a white man in court on any account, especially in the 1650s. This smells like a set up... a precursor from which to launch a precedent that could be used to justify the enslavement of Blacks. Johnson was merely a pawn in that endeavor. I say that based on a subsequent event where a letter was forged by a white land owner showing Johnson owed him a debt. The white man sued in court but the illiterate Johnson did not challenge the letter and had 100 acres of his property annexed by the forger to settled the false debt. Is that the kid of man who would
have had enough spunk to sue Parker for( hiring? ) an indentured runaway who really was a free man? I doubt it seriously. ALl this is is another case of exploitation by White males to further the nefarious agenda of ultimately enslaving Blacks.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

"What person of Black heritage played a very pivotal role in putting America on the moon?"

Katherine Johnson.

Katherine G. Johnson The HistoryMakers

"Johnson went on to join the Spacecraft Controls Branch where she calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American to go into space in 1959. Johnson also verified the mathematics behind John Glenn’s orbit around the Earth in 1962 and calculated the flight trajectory for Apollo 11’s flight to the moon in 1969. She retired from NASA in 1986."

Shepard didn't go into space in '59. It was '61.

It said calculated the flight trajectory. Typically they do that long before you actually go into space.

It's bad grammar then.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Black history month is a racist contrivance helping to perpetuate segregation for the benefit of the democrat party and race hustlers.

 

[Asclepias]

"What person of Black heritage played a very pivotal role in putting America on the moon?"

Katherine Johnson.

Katherine G. Johnson The HistoryMakers

"Johnson went on to join the Spacecraft Controls Branch where she calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American to go into space in 1959. Johnson also verified the mathematics behind John Glenn’s orbit around the Earth in 1962 and calculated the flight trajectory for Apollo 11’s flight to the moon in 1969. She retired from NASA in 1986."

Shepard didn't go into space in '59. It was '61.

It said calculated the flight trajectory. Typically they do that long before you actually go into space.

It's bad grammar then.

I think its more like you dont know how flying into space works. They do a lot of planning prior to lift off so they dont have to wing it while in space.

 

[reconmark]

Black history month is a racist contrivance helping to perpetuate segregation for the benefit of the democrat party and race hustlers.

To some white people maybe it is...how surprising.

 

[Asclepias]

Black history month is a racist contrivance helping to perpetuate segregation for the benefit of the democrat party and race hustlers.

I wonder where you saw the word segregation in my post or any idea alluding to that concept? I think that your feelings are hurt more than anything. Shake it off and try to participate instead of crying.

 

[ninja007]

does black history month celebrate the gang violence and 67% single mothers and 35% of black kids not finishing HIGH SCHOOL? AND 40% IN JAIL? and 1/3 going to prison in their lifetime?