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Nightfly ([email protected]) wrote:
> [email protected] (Kronos Traveller) wrote:
> >Ah, at last a response. First, Omar. Yeah, it's true. Most of NASA in the
> >sixties were White, males. So, what. They were not my only heroes. A lot of
> >my heroes were women (Marie Currie, Valentina Tereshkova, Harriet Tubman),
> >blacks (George Washington Carver, Wilt Chamberlin, Martin Luther King),
> >hispanic (Pancho Villa, Carlos Santana), Indians (Ghandi, Bose, Chandrasakhar),
> >etc. This is a more complete list (though not total, I refuse to waste the
> >band width) of my heroes growing up. Einstien was white too, am I supposed
> >to ignore him? I mentioned NASA becuase the obvious relationship between the
> In my experience it is very dangerous to bring race into a discussion
> about anything other than race its self. I can't recall Omar's
> response very well, but although I disagree almost entirely with your
> stance, to critize it because of your use of NASA as an example,
> purely because it was/is almost entirely made up of middle class
> whites was foolish, but as I said I can't accuratly recall the post.
> Only to another racist would a white saying his hero is white be a
> racist, the same is true if you replace white with coloured. Daft.
And here is the requisite defence:
The point isn't that its bad that Kronos' NASA heroes were white men. The
point was that only white men got to go to the moon.
-Omar Haneef
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