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First black PhD in Astrophysics from Yale
Topic Started: Dec 7 2015, 02:58 PM (166 Views)
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Good for her, very good. I also agree with beserker and boyce.
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VoiceofReason

beserker
Dec 7 2015, 06:13 PM
yawn....
...hubris

...rubbish

Dr Boyce Watkins says:

27) Thinking that the first black (fill in the blank) to get into a white institution actually represents progress, even though whites have never considered it be progress to get into our institutions (Does standard White History include a story about the first white man to get into Morehouse?). We’ve been taught to believe that everything whiter is better: White corporate jobs, white universities, white neighborhoods, white TV networks/media outlets, the list goes on and on.
He has a point that I'm sure is relevant somewhere.

She's the first black to be awarded a PhD in Astrophysics in the schools' history, and she said she did it in spite of the bigotry and sexism

I was ostracized by many of my classmates, one of whom went so far as to invite me to "do what I really came here to do" as he pushed all the dirty dishes from our meal in front of me to clean up.

she encountered. She's not licking their boots, she's thumbing her nose.

I'm not celebrating her getting in, I'm celebrating her exit, with PhD in hand.
Edited by VoiceofReason, Dec 8 2015, 09:43 AM.
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VoiceofReason

UTB
Dec 7 2015, 09:51 PM
With 40 million Blacks living here, there should be at least a thousand Black people in Astrophysics. The Jews and Asians are over representative in this, and it makes me wonder why is that. We all have a brain,(well most of us do), so why aren't we represented more?
I feel ya, UTB.

My 12 year old told me there's no use in competing academically because "the Asians are all over it, mom". Where did MY child get the message she's any different from those kids? We need to be "all over it".
Edited by VoiceofReason, Dec 8 2015, 09:39 AM.
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