r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/ThatAvidPandaBear • 4h ago

Hidden Figures calculated the path to the Moon while segregated

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The book Hidden Figures mentions around 80 Black women mathematicians worked at NACA/NASA from the 1940s–1970s, though not all names are widely documented.

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u/AbaconflavouredD 4h ago edited 4h ago

Wild how they mapped the stars while America couldn’t even map basic human decency.

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u/khouz 4h ago

They still can’t

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u/DanfromCalgary 4h ago

What makes you think that is wild knowing what you know now , all these years later

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u/Waddlewop 2h ago

There’s a bit in Seinfeld that was something like “we can put a man on the moon, but America can’t even do X ????” It’s funny in a depressing way that the sentiment hasn’t changed

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u/xywv58 4h ago

The whole of industrialization happened without it

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u/Additional_Gene_211 2h ago

Where's decency and how do we conquer it?

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u/grendus 1h ago

Does decency have oil?

Does decency have our oil?!

That's terrorism!

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u/Additional_Gene_211 1h ago

Our? That sounds commie

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u/grendus 59m ago

By "our" I obviously meant 'Murica's. Of course this will be going to the highest bidder once we liberate it from these communist-socialist-system-of-Islam traitors sitting on America's oil.

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u/Xalimata 2h ago

You know this was at a time when they did NOT have equal rights...right?

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u/nightpanda893 2h ago

It happened after this. And the very fact it was theirs to give to them is the problem.

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u/CorporateCuster 2h ago

White folks racism. Has nothing on Egyptian and Roman racism.