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Starry Night and the Astronauts

posted by martyb on Monday August 22 2016, @04:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the amazing-and-inspiring dept.

quietus writes:

Alma Thomas was born during the horse and buggy days of the end of the 19th century, and raised under Jim Crow laws. By the end of her life, in 1978, she had been the first black woman to be given a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with works inspired by the possibilities of space travel.

"Today not only can our great sciences send astronauts to and from the Moon to photograph its surface and bring back samples of rocks and other materials, but through the medium of colour television all can see and experience the thrill of these adventures. These phenomena set my creativity in motion."

(Alma Thomas, an incandescent pioneer, New York Times, Aug 4 2016)

If you look at our current time and technologies, after a little thought, what makes you feel amazed about, and hopeful, curious for, the future?

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  • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @05:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @05:18AM (#391470)

    2011. A black man yelled at me as I was minding my own business walking down the street, "Hey white boy! Hey white boy!"

    The man ran over to walk beside me and asked, "You wanna buy some dope?"

    I was 31. Not a boy. But I happen to be white. I declined the offer of dope.

    Racism lives. White men are the boys now. Thank the Obama voters for racism.

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  • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @07:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @07:24AM (#391493)

    Note to the fool who moderated the "white boy" anecdote Troll.

    That event really happened. If you feel the need to moderate Reality as Troll, then you are delusional.

    Let me tell you something else that really happened.

    When I went to vote at my neighborhood polling place in 2008, a black woman declared, "I'm just here to vote for Obama."

    Because of Obama, that's what elections have become: you vote for what you are.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @09:04AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @09:04AM (#391529)

      There some kind of automatic downmod for Obama comments now? Let me check. I didn't vote for Obama. Not even once.

    • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday August 23 2016, @02:35AM

      by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday August 23 2016, @02:35AM (#391972)

      Note to the fool who moderated the "white boy" anecdote Troll.

      Maybe if you didn't post as AC people wouldn't tend to think of you as a troll. I've had some unflattering downvotes, but every damned one of them had my name attached to them.

      --
      When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.