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Fly Me to the Moon, or Whites Need Not Apply
from The Occidental Observer, June 3, 2009
Charles Bolden
I don’t think my previous column could have been more timely. Titled On the Visual Displacement of the White Race, it appeared May 15. One week later, major news media reported that President Obama had chosen a former astronaut and Marine general to lead NASA.
This move certainly bolsters my point about the displacement of White men in positions that combine excellence in both technical innovation and high status: aeronautics. I showed an ad that Microsoft ran in The Atlantic Monthly — two pages with an unmistakably clear message: White males need not apply to future rocket programs, as engineers or astronauts. The future in this field—as the photo shows—belongs to the usual multicultural hopefuls—women, Hispanics, Asians and most particularly Black males.
The nominee for NASA administrator is Charles Bolden, who has four shuttle missions under his belt, including two as mission commander.
Interestingly, Obama chose a White woman as Deputy NASA Administrator Lori Garver, blocking out any White men at the very top of America’s space program. This comes in stark contrast to the historical make-up of all levels of NASA going back to the 1950s. The Gemini and Apollo programs were essentially White male preserves, from the Mission Control Specialists to the astronauts themselves. . . . More
Edmund Connelly
Edmund Connelly (Ph.D.) is the pen name of an academic film and television scholar. He is a frequent contributor to TOQ and The Occidental Observer.
I think back to the movie Apollo 13, with the control room full of brilliant white guys wearing those Elvis Costello glasses, all able to support a family nicely enough on a single modest GS salary. Today they’d all be trying to reinvent themselves as “quants” on Wall Street, Vikram Pandit their role model. Anyway, more good work by Mr. Connelly applying the ideas of Kevin MacDonald to pop culture. The neocons cite one another to great effect. MacDonald should be the Leo Strauss of our movement.