This website will serve to educate the general public on Black people and the Stuff That Black People Don't Like. Black people have many interesting eccentricities, which include disliking a litany of everyday events, places, household objects and other aspects of their everyday life.
Black people are an interesting subject matter and this website will chronicle the many problems in life that agitate this group of people.
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We could have been on Mars, but we had to fund Black-Run America (BRA). In minutes the space shuttle Atlantis will launch, ending 30 years of that program. As that shuttle enters into space, leaving earth behind, all the hopes and dreams of continued exploration will fade into the history books.
The 'unbordered' world from space. Why is that one continent in the middle so dark?
Here, from The Huntsville Times, is a story that illustrates something insane about modern Americans:
While some astronauts are waxing nostalgic about the final flight of the space shuttle program planned for today, UAB's resident astronaut says ending the program could be a boon for science.
Larry DeLucas, who spent two weeks in orbit on space shuttle Columbia in 1992, is optimistic about the future of commercial rockets, which he thinks can carry experiments and researchers into space more cheaply and safely than the shuttle. NASA is shuttering the shuttle after 30 years, and private companies and other countries will now carry crews and cargo to the International Space Station.
"I don't think it'll stop us from doing anything," he said. "I think it's going to be a new way to explore space."
As he does, he'll think of two moments he remembers most fondly from his own shuttle journey. One was when the crystals his experiments were based on finally started to grow; he was too excited to sleep that night, he said. The other was seeing Kuwait's oil fields burn in the aftermath of the first Gulf War as he looked down at the unbordered globe backed by millions of stars.
"You know that there's wars going on, but you look down and there's no lines and everybody's together," he said. "I don't know how to describe the feeling I had. That feeling made me realize how we're all connected."
Unbordered globe backed by millions of stars? No lines and everybody's together? We're all connected? When you look at this unbordered world from space, you can see the illumination from major metropolitan areas that show how 'unbordered' the world is and you get a perfect picture of human acheivement courtesy of being among those stars.
Instead of continuing to forge ahead 'for all mankind' and explore the heavens, we must watch as major American cities enact emergency curfews - normally reserved for wartime or natural disaster - to keep Black people from burning them down.
We could have been on Mars, but we had to fund Black-Run America. Always remember that as you look up at the stars on a dark night and see them shining back at you.
Curbing excellence seems to be a ploy to remove all remnants of white people excelling where Black people constantly fail. Perhaps if science labs are removed from high schools (as in Berkeley), the stunning athletic achievements of Black people will somehow progress our levels of scientific knowledge.
Instead of investing money in the "gifted" segments of society, we are intent on de-investing from those programs and redistributing that money to areas of consistent failure:
NASA has selected the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corp. of Falls Church, Va., to administer a $1 million career development and educational program designed to address the critical shortage of U.S. minority students in science and engineering fields.
The NASA Astrobiology Institute's (NAI) Minority Institution Research Support (MIRS) program in Moffett Field, Calif., is providing the funding for the four-year effort. The program will provide opportunities for up to four faculty members and eight students from minority-serving institutions to partner with astrobiology investigators. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and the future of life on Earth and the potential for life elsewhere.
"Providing new education opportunities for minority students will both enrich lives and answer a critical need for proficiency in science and engineering," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "But just as importantly, the program is an investment to cultivate imaginative thinking about the field of astrobiology."
The United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corp. will use its extensive database of 14,000 registrants to develop an online community to provide webinars, virtual training and videoconferences, and provide outreach and recruitment for program participants. The program's objective is to engage more teachers from under-represented schools in astrobiology research and increase the number of students pursuing careers in astrobiology.
"Our nation's underserved populations are a tremendous resource on which we must draw, not just for science, but for everything we do," said Carl Pilcher, director of NASA's Astrobiology Institute. "We are extremely pleased that the NAI MIRS program will continue contributing under the leadership of such a strong and experienced partner."
Founded in 1998, NAI is a partnership between NASA, 14 U.S. teams of universities and other organizations, and seven international consortia. NAI's goals are to promote, conduct, and lead interdisciplinary astrobiology research, train a new generation of astrobiology researchers, and share the excitement of the field.
One of the first rules of SBPDL is that any organization that fails to have significant numbers of Black people (or vocational fields) is operating at crisis level. Only with the introduction of large numbers of Black people can offset this horrible situation, for the efficiency of an organization and its status as a progressive, tolerant company (or vocation) is at stake.
During the Astrobiology Science Conference held at NASA Ames in April 2002, less than 1% of the 800 attendees were African-American. To increase the visibility and participation of underrepresented scientists, The Minority Institution Astrobiology Collaboratory (MIAC) was formed.
A sane society would have no problem asking why that might be, but an insane society merely inquires as to how a greater representation of Black people will be possible (hint, lowering standards to becoming an astrobiologist).
One institution that has allocated money for NASA (and is a predominately Black university) is Alabama A&M. A top producer of Black people with advanced doctorates, Alabama A&M is also home to growing controversy that involves NASA, tens of millions of dollars and a chief compliance officer who used to be a janitor:
According to high ranking officials at Alabama A&M University, the FBI has started asking questions about recent events at the Research Institute.
That's the flagship scientific research program, an 11-year-old separate corporate entity that employs A&M professors to handle millions in private and government research contracts on behalf of NASA, the Defense Department and numerous companies, such as Boeing.
"Yes, some senior administrators have been informed of a potential situation with the Research Institute," said university spokesperson Wendy Kobler on Thursday when asked about the FBI investigation. "Of late, there have been no follow up conversations about the ongoing inquiry into the Research Institute."
According to the former institute attorney, Annary Cheatham, after a summer of more than five firings and forceouts, there's just about no one left at the institute with a background in science or with the necessary security clearance.
The institute's small governing board, which includes former A&M trustee Shefton Riggins and current A&M trustee Tom Bell, on June 14 held a private meeting and fired the man who had helped found the institute, physicist and longtime director Dr. Daryush Ila.
They hired Dr. Tommy Coleman, who has a background in plant and soil science. In July, the board removed Coleman and put in director Deidra Willis-Gopher, a former teacher.
Kevin Matthews, a former Madison County janitor, became the new chief compliance officer. And Cheatham, who was brought in as general counsel for the institute on July 20 and let go 15 days later, said the bylaws were rewritten to place Matthews on the Institute board with Riggins and Bell, meaning Matthews is, in part, supervising himself.
Yes, the chief compliance officer that oversaw millions in grants was a former janitor.
Like all government agencies, NASA exceeds its employment of Black people (correlated to the percentage of the overall US population) by 49 percent. This isn't enough, as NASA lags in diversity:
In a year of firsts, the nomination of an African-American to lead NASA hasn't grabbed national front-page headlines used for a black president moving into the White House, or for the selection of a Hispanic justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Yet, if former astronaut Charles Bolden is confirmed as the next NASA administrator, he will take over an agency still struggling to match the racial diversity found in the nation's population, much less the federal work force in general.
Part of the reason is because minorities are underrepresented in the science- and math-related professions from which NASA draws, said space policy expert Howard McCurdy.
But that doesn't excuse NASA, he said.
"The federal government has viewed itself as having a special responsibility to be a model employer, to go beyond what the occupational distribution allows," said McCurdy, a public affairs professor at American University in Washington, D.C.
"I don't sense that NASA moves much beyond what the occupational categories provide them. They are much more comfortable with technical challenges than with social ones."
When it comes to racial parity, NASA falls short in all but one ethnic group, Asian-Americans. At Kennedy Space Center, the situation is a little different.
Blacks, who make up 12.8 percent of the U.S. population, represent 11.3 percent of NASA's employees. They make up 17.9 percent of the federal work force. At KSC, blacks make up 7.6 percent of the work force, compared with 10 percent of Brevard County's population.
Hispanics represent 5.9 percent of all NASA employees, although they make up 7.9 percent of the federal labor force and 15.1 percent of the nation's population. Ten percent of KSC's work force is made up of Hispanics, compared with 6.9 percent of Brevard's population
Asian-Americans, who make up 4.6 percent of the national population, represent 6.3 percent of NASA's work force. That's nearly double the 3.4 percent they represent of all government employees. At KSC, 4.2 percent of the work force is made up of Asian-Americans, compared with 2.1 percent of Brevard's population."
We once went to the moon. We can't go back now, not because mankind is getting dumber, but because mankind is having to curb excellence so that Black people won't be left out. Honors classes, military entrance exams, AP exams, the SAT, LSAT, MCAT and ACT, the Wonderlic and any other test that requires a No. 2 pencil must go, because they deny Black people the opportunity to bless many vocations with wondrous variety and diversity.
American innovation has been handicapped by the failures of Black people and to compensate for this continued poor academic showing (and thus high rate of barber shop employees), all companies or organizations - both public and private - must lower standards.
To understand why America made it to the moon in 1969 is to understand where America would be ranked in the PISA scores internationally were the white score not saddled with those of an underachieving racial group.
Black people look at the 40th anniversary of the United States sending three astronauts and their landing upon the moon with enthusiastic indifference.
Never has a moment captured the inherent differences between Black people and white people as much as when three white astronauts, the hard work of hundreds of white scientists and hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, culminated in the planting of the US Flag upon the moon on July 20, 1969.
If civilization and humanity originated out of Africa and white people are a recent evolutionary branch of the human race, how could they have beat Black people to moon, when Black people are a much older race upon this earth?
The "Out-of-Africa" theory of human migration is a source of pride for Black people, but paradoxically, a source of great angst, for if they have been around longer than white people, how come Black people weren't the first to fly - like the Wright Brothers in North Carolina - or the first to come up with rocket science?
Black people look on this anniversary and moment when Neil Armstrong said, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," with utter dread: they were completely left out of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon and feel as if this is another example of Pre-Obama America that they inherently dislike.
The trip to the moon is not the culmination of mankind's endeavors, but the culmination of European man's dreams and ambitions. Black people believe that the white astronauts will impose cultural imperialism on the moon and subjugate any alien life form to the same insidious white standards that were imposed on the indigenous people that the ancestors of current white people imposed on Indians, Africans and other non-white; mainly slavery, colonialism, genocide, etc.
During the 1960s, the United States went to war with poverty through the programs of the Great Society, which hoped to eradicate poverty, improve literacy and help minorities through a litany of programs. That Great Society failed:
"But with the 1964 landslide of LBJ, liberalism triumphed and began its great experiment.
"Behind the Great Society was a great idea: to lift America's poor out of poverty, government should now take care of all their basic needs. By giving the poor welfare, subsidized food, public housing and free medical care, government will end poverty in America.
..."The real disaster of Katrina was that society broke down. An entire community could not cope. Liberalism, the idea that good intentions and government programs can build a Great Society, was exposed as fraud. After trillions of tax dollars for welfare, food stamps, public housing, job training and education have poured out since 1965, poverty remains pandemic. But today, when the police vanish, the community disappears and men take to the streets to prey on women and the weak."
Black people believe that if the $24 billion spent to go the moon - a vanity trip for white people to show of their technology - would have been spent on earth and for Black people, that the Great Society would have actually have worked!
"They were selected to go into space for the simple reason that they were the best men for the job, a criterion that today is often no longer enough, as Frank Ricci discovered. Today’s NASA seems as interested in trumpeting its commitment to multiculturalism and diversity as in the exploration of space, a commitment that would have struck the men who actually planned and achieved multiple landings on the moon as simply irrelevant to what they were doing."
The New York Times on July 21, 1969, wrote about the event and pointed out the absurdity of going to the moon when so many people in the "Great Society" were being left behind:
"For all his resplendent glory as he steps forth on another planet, man is still a pathetic creature, able to master outer space and yet unable to control his inner self; able to conquer new worlds yet unable to live in peace on this one, able to create miracles of science and yet unable properly to house and clothe and feed all his fellow men, able eventually to colonize an alien and hostile environment and yet increasingly unable to come to terms with the nurturing environment that is his home".
Going to the moon was great, according the New York Times, but not spending money to help out the world was bad. Pre-Obama achievements are feckless; only Post-Obama achievements matter now.
"Africans must travel to the moon to investigate what developed nations have been doing in outer space, Ugandan President YoweriMuseveni said Saturday.
"The Americans have gone to the moon. And the Russians. The Chinese and Indians will go there soon. Africans are the only ones who are stuck here," Museveni said, addressing a meeting of the Uganda Law Society in Entebbe.
"We must also go there and say: 'What are you people doing up here?'.
"Museveni urged the assembly of Uganda's top lawyers to support East African integration, arguing that one of the region's goals should be to develop a space programme.
"Uganda alone cannot go to the moon. We are too small. But East Africa united can. That is what East African integration is all about," he said. "Then we can say to the Americans: 'What are you doing here all alone?'.
Black people have had no desire to go into space until the glorious coronation of Barack Obama, which resulted in a Black person being made head of NASA. Uganda wants to go to space, but they lack the resources and technology to create a bottle rocket, let a lone a spaceship.
Space exploration will always be seen as remnants of Pre-Obama America and therefore, unworthy of admiration and a waste of time and precious money that could have been put to good use in the inner cities of America.
Stuff Black People Don't Like includes space exploration, because the greatest accomplishments of exploring the final frontier came B.O. (Before Obama), and are not recognized in the new Black person calendar.
