Happy 50th Birthday Civil Rights Act of 1964

Fifty years!

Happy Birthday, Civil Rights Act of 1964!

Birthed on June 19, this act ushered in a new era of legalized discrimination against whites all in the name of uplifting the black population (and now, the Hispanic population is protected via this 50 year old legislation).

For a fifty-year-old act, it still looks good, right?

No need for botox or a tummy tuck, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 gets plenty of exercise on a daily basis. [NASA Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, NASA.gov, 6-19-14]:

Fifty years ago, on July 2, 1964, one of the biggest legal barriers to equal opportunity in America was toppled when President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the most sweeping civil rights legislation since the Reconstruction era.  The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in such areas as voting, public restaurants, employment, and education on the basis of such characteristics as  race, color, religion, national origin, and sex.  It was a pivotal moment in our nation’s struggle to form “a more perfect union” and transformed the face of America.

 "Form a more perfect union?"

Since the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, how many American cities have become no-go areas for white people?

How many of these formerly American cities are filled with not only crime and blight, but democratically run by a people "liberated" by the 1964 Act?

After World War II, much of Europe was ravaged with cities burnt out; Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomic wastelands.

What can be said of Birmingham, Memphis, Detroit, Camden, Baltimore, and Newark?

No one will say it, so we will: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ensured the dissolving of the United States of America and the dismantling of any "more perfect union" talk.

Its passing was far more damaging to the health of the country than any foreign army/air force/navy could ever hope of replicating.

And yet, we must always praise this 50-year-old legislation as the pivotal moment in rectifying inequities of our incurable racist past... well, only incurable until the past can be rewritten to find true non-whites hero worthy of our adulation, love, and respect.

New heroes must emerge to lionize and praise as the foundation of our country, since we will one day celebrate the true birth of the nation as June 19, 1964. [How NASA Joined the Civil Rights Revolution: Integration came to the nation’s space agency in the mid-1960s., Air and Space Magazine, March 2014]

On May 13, 1961, in its first issue after Alan Shepard’s historic Mercury mission, the nation’s leading black newspaper, the New York Amsterdam News, ran a front-page column that asked a question on the minds of millions of Americans. “If you are like me,” wrote executive editor James Hicks, “as soon as you finished thrilling to the flight of the United States’s first man into outer space, your next thought was, ‘I wonder if there were any Negroes who had anything to do with Commander Shepard’s flight?’

There is a short list of steps NASA took to promote equal employment in the year before the 1964 Civil Rights Act became law: The agency created a contractors’ group in Alabama that used its money and influence to make sure African-Americans got space jobs. NASA hired Charlie Smoot, called the “first Negro recruiter” in official agency histories, to travel the nation persuading black scientists and engineers to come south. The Marshall Space Flight Center invited representatives of the historically black colleges to Huntsville in 1963, and a year later opened the agency’s college cooperative education program—in which students alternated semesters at school with semesters at Marshall—to blacks.

As a result, Walter Applewhite, Wesley Carter, George Bourda, Tommy Dubone, William Winfield, Frank C. Williams Jr., and Morgan Watson arrived at Marshall to become the embodiment of Johnson’s plan for jobs in the South.

Space—and Race—Progress

The idea that the Space Age might help usher in better race relations became a subject of scientific inquiry. In the spring of 1962, NASA made a grant to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to study “the relationships of space efforts to US society.” The report proceeded, in part from the popular conception that NASA, in the academy’s words, represented “a new era of equality according to ability.” There was a belief that “communities with advanced types of industry, with their people employed in research laboratories and in the development of new engineering techniques, should display a high level of social innovation.”

The academy sent sociologist Peter Dodd to the space communities to find out if it was true. In multiple visits to Huntsville, Florida’s Cape Kennedy, and the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, Dodd spoke to NASA workers and administrators as well as municipal officials, city planners, newspapermen, ministers, educators, social workers, housewives, and teenagers.

Studies suggested that space workers had “high levels of education, which are known to be correlated with liberal views,” and that “their youth and geographic mobility have exposed them to liberal opinion.” What Dodd found was exactly the opposite, especially in matters of race. In Huntsville and at Cape Kennedy, he said, “There seem to be no evidence of strong pressure for Negro rights, nor of strong sympathy among technologists for civil rights.” To NASA workers, he found, “the Negroes appear to be an outside group presenting demands which would have to be dealt with in some way, but which are no concern of theirs.”

How dare those white males in NASA not understand the blacks forced upon them were their moral superiors (and obviously intellectual superiors, which goes without saying...)!

Talk about your made for Hollywood story: praise black ingenuity (all part of an early affirmative action scheme to scour the country to find suitable black scientists) while denouncing the racist whites at NASA for refusing to accept the notion merit had no place in the workplace when blackness was involved.

 But it's in Andrew J. Dunar's Power to Explore: A History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960-1990 we get a clear look at how impactful the 1964 Civil Rights Act was on NASA:

Attorney General Robert Kennedy, long a critic of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson’s leadership of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, met with the committee on 18 June. Webb, a protégé of Johnson, represented NASA. Kennedy grilled Johnson, puncturing his vague claims of progress. After “making the Vice President look like a fraud,” in the words of one observer, the Attorney General turned on [James] Webb. “Mr. Webb,I just raised a question of whether you can do this job and run a Center and administer its $3.9 billion worth of contracts and make sure that Negroes and nonwhites have jobs . . . I am trying to ask some questions. I don’t think I am able to get the answers, to tell you the truth.”

Marshall established an Affirmative Action Program in June, following recommendations offered by a Civil Service team from Atlanta. Dr. Frank R. Albert became the first Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinator. Albert hired Charlie Smoot as a professional staffing recruiter; Marshall claimed Smoot was “possibly the first Negro recruiter in government service.” (p. 118-119)

Marshall’s shortcomings represented a portion of a larger NASA failure. NASA lagged behind other federal agencies in implementing equal opportunity programs. NASA’s minority employment rose only from 4.1 percent to 5.19 percent between 1966 and 1973, when overall federal minority employment reached 20 percent. Furthermore, most of its minority employees were clustered in lower grades. The Agency’s own EEO staff concluded that “NASA has failed to progress because it has never made equal opportunity a priority.” Deputy Administrator George Low conceded that “Equal Opportunity is a sham in NASA,” and derided the Agency’s “total insensitivity to human rights and human beings.” (p. 124)

 By 1973, the federal government workforce was 20 percent nonwhite (primarily black, considering the demographic explosion of Hispanics and Asians was yet to occur), but NASA was roughly 95 percent white.

Remember: it was 1972 NASA became just another federal (taxpayer funded) minority jobs program. 

But as the book Societal Impact of Spaceflight makes clear, NASA in 1973 did have a place for blacks: 69 percent of the janitors at NASA were minority (black) males, compared to a government-wide average of 56 percent!

That's progress.

And, like in the movie Good Will Hunting, it was really a black janitor named Robert Wall who helped break a complex math equation Wernher Von Braun left on a chalkboard for one of NASA's insensitive white nerds to try and solve (true story).

So happy 50th Birthday, Civil Rights Act of 1964.

It might just be, but when I look at the ruins of a city like Detroit, I don't see the harmful legacy of capitalism or Democrat rule: I see the legacy of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in full glory.

And NASA being turned into just another United States Postal Service... well, that's just another legacy of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. 

About that Black Character in "October Sky"...

It's a great movie.

Perhaps one of the best, most motivating movies of the past 30 years.

October Sky.

The character of Leon Bolden (far right, played by actor Randy Stripling) is the black genius who flew with the Tuskegee Airmen in the movie October Sky. Only problem: he never existed. It was a white guy, Bill Bolt, who helped the Rocket Boys...

Homer Hickam.

West Virginia.

The Rocket Boys.

White boys in 1957, influenced by the Russians launching Sputnik, decide to take up rocketry.

Schools across the country show the movie as part of their curriculum. Homer Hickam's official site even has a study guide to help teachers educate their students on the rocket boys exploits.

But as in many Hollywood "true stories" (think Dolphin Tale), something is incredibly rotten in Denmark when it comes to the inclusion of a black scientific genius in the city of Coalwood, West Virginia.

A black scientific genius, who also flew with the Tuskegee Airmen - the "Red Tails" - in World War II.

The characters name in October Sky is Leon Bolden. He serves as not only moral support, but technical support as well to the white boys of Coalwood, West Virginia. In fact, here's one of this lines (notice the subtle slip of the "Red Tails" experience into the dialogue:

[a mine worker, formerly one of the Tuskegee Airmen, almost gets hit when he watches Homer launch a rocket]

Leon Bolden: Homer, I flew with the Red Tails in World War II. And seein' that rocket come at me... it almost took me back there.

 Only problem: there was no black guy in Coalwood, West Virginia, who also flew with the Tuskegee Airmen" in World War II, and provided the scientific genius to get the Rocket Boys experiments off the ground...

The real man behind helping the Rocket Boys from Coalwood, West Virginia get their experiments into the air...

There was a white man named Bill Bolt though... [Banking On Memories in Coalwood, W.Va, Tricities.com, 11-30-2008]:

 Bill Bolt doesn’t fashion any more nozzles to fuel the dreams of the Rocket Boys.
But he does fashion himself, almost daily, as an informal tour guide for Coalwood. Bolt greets any and all camera-clicking cruisers, orbiting through the wilds of West Virginia and landing here, reaching for the remnants of a proud people, the words of a teacher and the dreams of boys.

“You wouldn’t believe the visitors we get,” said Bolt, a retired machine shop foreman. “And we still have a lot of people.”

Travelers to Coalwood, W.Va., yearn for the nostalgia of the 1950s, when Coalwood’s “Rocket Boys” dared to dream beyond the dark and deadly challenges of working in a coal mine.

These “Rocket Boys” – six teenagers who built and launched model rockets – included Homer H. “Sonny” Hickam Jr., a retired NASA engineer who wrote a best selling memoir called “Rocket Boys” and, by 1999, adapted the book into a big-screen movie, “October Sky.”

“Before ‘October Sky’ came out, we didn’t have nothing,” said 90-year-old Coalwood resident Red Carroll. “That movie has put us on the map.”

In the late 1990s, Hickam won major attention for writing “The Big Creek Missile Agency,” a 2,000-word article for Smithsonian Air and Space magazine. Detailing the adventures of his rocket-launching buddies at Big Creek High School, this piece received so much response that Hickam was inspired to write the “Rocket Boys” book, published in 1998.

Using a poetic license, Hickam combined a few characters and used different names for others.

Next came Hollywood, and the movie “October Sky” changed Coalwood even more.
“The movie is about 90 percent true,” Bolt figured.

There’s a character based on Bolt, but it doesn’t look much like him: Actor Randy Stripling, an African-American, portrays a machinist named “Leon Bolden.”

Such a switch did not fit reality in Coalwood , Red Carroll said. “There were no black men working in the machine shop.”

 No black people in Coalwood, but through the magic of celluloid you get the numinous negro.

A magical, technologically and morally superior negro.

Who flew with the Tuskegee Airmen.

Leon Bolden.

Who could only exist via the magic of Hollywood. 

Thus, the movie October Sky helps show a new generation of "Americans" that only through the contributions of "Red Tails" could white boys from Coalwood, West Virginia find the scientific means to put rockets into the air.

#57. Baby Gender Reveal Pictures/Parties

PK Note: It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. Seriously, the news is hilarious, a reminder our only job is to survive what's coming. There's only so much in life we can influence, and with this in mind let's go back to what made SBPDL a destination place: the # posts. 


As marriage becomes more and more the practice of the "haves" in America, one of the clearest indicators your social category is that of a "prole" if you've never introduced your child's gender to the world via a clever reveal picture or the all-important reveal party.

With the immersion of our lives into social media, the impact of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest have created a new window into which one can anonymous stalk their peers and live vicariously through their exploits.

But these virtual peeping tom activities has a price: your soul.

No, not quite your soul.

But these social media platforms have evolved into a photographic playground for young mothers - almost axiomatically white women - to show off their children at every possible angle.

But it's the most important angle that has captured the imagination of those creative enough (desperate enough for attention and the all crucial approval of virtual friends) to come up with unique ways to unveil the gender of the baby to family and friends.

Yes, the baby gender reveal picture, a more practical - yet still ostentatious -  off-shoot of the baby reveal party.

To understand your class distinction in 21st America, it's vital to quickly analyze whether or not your child was introduced to the world with both pink and blue balloons present: a macabre reminder of the trivialization of parenthood into a constant, relentless celebration of juvenility.

But an entirely white phenomenon.

When 72 percent of black babies are born out of wedlock (in some cities, like Detroit, approaching 90 percent), it's highly difficult to engineer the same type of excitement over a gender reveal party as can be manifested by the sheer joy the first of every month brings...

Same goes for Hispanics, where family families rarely make it through customs.

Years from now, scholars will debate whether or not social media aided a white baby boom for millennial's, as this peculiar demographic found the intense pressure to keep up with the Joneses via clever Pinterest or Facebook baby gender reveal photos a battle only more procreation could help win.

If one gender reveal photo wasn't clever enough (not producing the requisite number of "likes"), there's always an opportunity 10 - 12 months down the road.

A sampling of World Star Hip Hop will allow the more intrepid of readers to determine the direction the detritus of unwed mothers is headed, a sly reminder nature does have a sense of humor.

But the next time you login into your Facebook and notice a peculiar picture of a married couple surrounded by both male and female iconography, understand you are witnessing a uniquely white social practice captured for posterity: the gender reveal photo.

For in those one photo, normally captured months before the baby will be brought into this world, do you see a family putting more care into its life than a 72 percent of black people will ever do (and that number only get higher by the day).

You see, low illegitimacy rates of blacks during the era of segregation was nothing more than a social construct.

Stuff Black People Don't Like includes the baby gender reveal picture/party, for in this one image do we see a white baby - months from being born - more love and cared for than a bastard black baby will be in their entire life.

Well, except by some Disingenuous White Liberal (DWL) who adopts the bastard black child as a social points-scoring -- allowing you to climb up the ladder of white liberal success -- pet.

But remember: nothing lasts forever, not even the Black-Run America (BRA).

"Unbearable" and "Insensitive": The Pacification of 83 Percent Black Detroit by Gentrification (white economic uplifting) Leaves Liberals Incensed

You've probably never read the fourth draft for a movie originally titled Robocop: The Future of Law Enforcement.

From June 10, 1986, the Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner script intended the scene where the President of OCP (the company responsible for producing the Robocop Prototype) explained why he wanted Detroit to be free of crime with... more of a personal feel.

The "Old Man" from 1987's Robocop: "Old Detroit has a cancer." (blacks, cough cough)

Sadly, this wouldn't survive the editing room floor, but here's what the fourth draft had the "Old Man" telling a room full of corporate bigwigs:

OK, let's get started: I've had a dream for more than a decade now, and I've asked you all to share it with me. In six months we being construction of Delta City (he waves toward the model) where Old Detroit now stands. I grew up in Old Detroit... as a child I played in its streets... Those same streets have become a breeding ground for crime and social decay. Before we employ the 2 million workers that will breathe life into this city again we must pacify Old Detroit.

That is a powerful scene, sadly neutered down in the actual version of the movie Paul Verhoeven directed.

Evoking memories of a distant, placid past, the "Old Man" in charge of OCP uses powerful language to describe what must be done to ensure the present ruinous condition of Detroit is not allowed to perpetuate into the future.

"Those same streets" (where as a child he played) are a "breeding ground for crime and social decay" precisely because a new racial group occupies the real estate.

The "Old Man" from the Robocop script (and movie) is a white male, whose people were forced out of Detroit courtesy of the vice, misery, and crime black people imported from the southern states when they migrated to the city, culminating with the 1967 rebellion.

And wherever these white people went, civilization followed ("as a child I played in its streets").

Wherever these black people went, civilization receded ("those same streets have become a breeding ground for crime and social decay").

And though the fictional OCP was unable to "pacify" Old Detroit via robotic law enforcement, the power of gentrification as the economic warfare needed to combat the Visible Black Hand of Economics is on display in 2014 Detroit. [Downtown Detroit's rent market nears magic number: $2 per square foot, Detroit News, 6-18-14]:

 Since the late ’90s, downtown Detroit landlords have dreamed of the day they could charge apartment renters $2 per square foot. 

It was a magic number, like a major league pitcher winning 20 games or a lottery jackpot hitting $100 million. That’s why the 625-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment being offered at The Albert Capitol Park should have a historical marker. 

The rent is $1,385 a month. That adds up to $2.22 per square foot. “We are there and it means downtown is about to be supercharged,” said James Van Dyke, a key downtown developer. 

An artist rendering of life at the post-black the Albert building in Detroit, which Detroit.Curbed.com labeled a "nightmare." Have they not seen what 83 percent Detroit looks like now? Is that their dream?

“No more ridiculously long wait lists to rent something downtown. For developers, no more having to find eight, 10 different sources of financing, because a bank may actually be willing to give a traditional loan.” It means the skyrocketing rent for downtown apartments in the hot residential areas of Midtown, riverfront, Eastern Market, and Corktown could begin to level off in the next few years. 

More financing for developers means they build more apartments. More supply means more competitive prices. 

If it does level off, renting a place in the trendy parts of Detroit may continue to cost about the same as renting in the trendy parts of Cleveland, Kansas City, or San Antonio, according to a national report on apartment rents in 46 U.S. cities. 

The average will go up — but it won’t hit anywhere near the level of a New York ($4,100-a-month average) or San Francisco ($2,540). What makes The Albert distinct is that most of the 127 units will be around the $2-per-square-foot mark — not just some of the the building’s best apartments. 

As recently as this winter, the rent in this Capitol Park building was as low as $130 a month. The former tenants who lived in the historical building relied on federal government Section 8 vouchers to pay their rent. 

The 12-story building was designed by the late Albert Kahn, the architect most associated with Detroit when it was prosperous and growing. Last year, the 1214 Griswold building was purchased by a limited liability corporation listing Richard Broder as its managing partner. 

Broder is chief executive officer of Birmingham-based Broder & Sachse, a commercial and residential real estate firm. 

Not surprisingly, when the previous tenants who relied on Section 8 were informed they had one year to leave, some tried to fight and stay, attracting media attention about the price of gentrification. 

Then earlier this year, several local bloggers ridiculed a promotional video for The Albert because it portrayed animated images of new tenants as mainly white and young. The tenants who were forced to leave were mainly black and elderly. 

Across the park from the Albert, 20 mostly young residents of 1215-17 Griswold were given 30 days to vacate earlier this year. Most paid $500 a month in rent for 2,300-square-foot spaces in a building with no working elevator and boarded-up windows. Gilbert associate James Ketai purchased the building last year. 

The city found numerous violations that made it too dangerous for occupancy and ordered it be vacated immediately. The residents were given $2,000 for the move. Many are rankled by the relocation. 

“I find it ironic Capitol Park is being touted as the place that must be fixed up so Detroit can attract the creative class,” said Margaret Cassetto, one of the former residents, who moved to the West Village neighborhood.

What Robocop couldn't do in the movies, gentrification can do in real life. 

It was once said, "stocks may rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People are no damn good, but they will always need land and they'll pay through the nose to get it!"

Well... nationwide any community or city where the majority of real estate is occupied by black people doesn't fit this rule elucidated by Lex Luthor in 1978's Superman. 

Though the last frontier for disparate impact lawsuits will be property evaluations/assessments (why is property owned by black people in say Clayton County, Georgia worth exponentially less than that owned by whites people in Forsyth County?), our egalitarian overlords will find it harder to extract property taxes from home owners when we're all equal on paper...

What this Detroit News article makes clear is one, simple rule: when it's white, property is alright; when it's black, property is sacked. 

Sacked = blight = Ruin Porn = the need for Pacification as outlined by the "Old Man" in the fourth script for Robocop. 

But that's tolerated in a world where Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) scramble to protect black people from ever being fingered for the damage they collectively create; with individual DWLs seeking immunity from charges of racism leveled at all whites by the unstable paradigm of Black-Run America (BRA). 

The ad the Detroit News noticed as being full of whites for the newly renovated (strangely, once devoid of blacks, increasing in value...)  Albert building caused mass hysteria from DWLs upset Detroit might lose its blackness - the blight, ruin porn, and crime that goes with it - and grow in whiteness. [The Griswold Building Becomes "The Albert," Releases an Unbearable Promo Video, Detroit.Curbed.com, 3-13-14]:

UPDATE (4/2/14): The Albert has edited out some of the more insensitive portions of the video after this article originally posted. 

The Griswold Building is back, and developers have rebranded the renovated apartment building into something trendier. Something younger. Something altogether unbearable. Something called The Albert. You might want to buckle up for this one. It's so awful, you might end up hate-watching it again and again.  

Remember how this renovation began by kicking out the building's previous population of low-income seniors? To celebrate that triumph, the video starts and ends with a young person making a bold declaration "Detroit is MY generation's city."

"Unbearable promo video?"

"Insensitive?" (Deadline Detroit called it "racist")

Oh, you mean white people moving back to Detroit and quietly reminding the world that as the community increases in viability (decreasing in ethnic "vibrancy") and property valuations improve is an unbearable, insensitive reminder of the poverty blackness alone creates and sustains? 

Call the black population of Detroit the "uncreative class" (apologies to Richard Florida), with the incredible blight and decay in the once thriving city a reminder of their reign as the majority racial population in the city. 

A community's health is nothing more than a reflection of its majority racial population. 

And that majority demographic is a clear sign of the sustainability of the community. 

Detroit doesn't need a robotic police force to survive; it needs gentrification, which some idiots find "unbearable" and "insensitive."

What blacks have done to the civilization whites created out of the wilderness is no longer bearable.