“In archival Apollo 11 photos and footage, it’s a ‘Where’s Waldo?’ exercise to spot a woman or person of color,” it continued in the article itself. The culture that put men on the moon was intense, fun, family-unfriendly, and mostly white and male - The Washington Post July 16, 2019 “The culture that put men on the moon was intense, fun, family-unfriendly, and mostly white and male,” tweeted the Washington Post, over a behind-the-scenes look at the life of those involved in the program. It is not yet dominant, but persistent enough to be more than a coincidence. This way everyone would get to celebrate their own role models, even though in time such changes of focus can end up with grotesque urban myths, like Crick and Watson stealing the Nobel Prize from (the actually dead) Rosalind Franklin.Ĭelebrating White Men in the Age of Trumpīut while this unifying narrative, where people of different races and varying attainments are placed alongside each other in anniversary pieces, a more sour, radicalized note has begun to surface, compared to celebrations even five years ago, in the prelapsarian era of Barack Obama. Hidden Figures, the Oscar-winning film from 2016 was the perfect archetype of this revisionist history, exaggerating and fictionalizing the role of a cadre of politically suitable Black women, who did an entirely replaceable job and were no more important than thousands of others involved.

It would seem like the more logical route, for those who resent that this was a feat of White un-woke America, would be to try and diminish their role in favour of supposedly unsung heroes.

With the Founding Fathers now rarely mentioned in the media without side notes about their slave ownership, and the Betsy Ross flag offensive to Colin Kaepernick and Nike, there is nothing new about anti-White attempts to strike at the very heart of American identity.īut – leaving aside the conspiracy theorists – the moment Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the Moon on Jwas objectively such a universal milestone that to qualify it seems a fight against human endeavor itself.

Sea of White: The mission control for Apollo 11ĪTTEMPTS TO diminish the triumph of Apollo 11 and to reassign credit don’t just taint the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, but presage the technological decline of the US if it persists with anti-White politics.

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