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Author Topic:   Hidden Figures Movie
NoNukes
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Message 3 of 53 (809631)
05-19-2017 7:29 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Faith
05-19-2017 3:43 PM


It also made me wonder about my own racism that I would never have imagined a black woman mathematical genius.
I appreciate your sincere and honest statement where. Admissions of this kind cannot be easy. We all have some racism (and other ism) that we don't like to acknowledge.
I just wanted to put something up about this movie I think it's so good.;
I thought the movie was okay. But my wife raves about it just as you do.
I saw it twice. I also watched some interviews at You Tube with the cast as well as with Katherine Johnson, who is probably smarter than Dr. Adequate.
I take this as high praise of Dr. Adequate.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000

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NoNukes
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Message 46 of 53 (809907)
05-22-2017 3:55 AM
Reply to: Message 26 by Faith
05-21-2017 2:08 AM


Re: Other geniuses
Oh for pete's sake. There has never been any sense of socially sanctioned discrimination like what is shown in the movie. No separate bathrooms and no feeling there should be, no separate coffee pots, no separate sitting areas, no back of the bus, no separate fountains.
Never? I will take this to mean that you believe that the era when there were separate bathrooms, water coolers, lunch counters and back of the bus stuff ended before the time depicted in the movie, and not that such times never happened.
You are nowhere close to the truth.
It turns out that stuff like that did in fact exist in the early 1960s. The private high school I attended in Georgia, was integrated for the first time in the late 1960s. I could tell you some really eye opening stories about what happen to the first black students to attend. The freedom riders bus program was in 1961. The 16th Street Church bombing was in 1963. Federal troops were required to support the entry of black students into the University of Alabama in 1963.
All of that stuff overlaps the events depicted in the movie.
Perhaps you lived in a place of sunshine and light during that period. That does not justify your maintaining that the stuff depicted in the movie was wrong without at least checking first. I'll never understand that attitude. But at least its harmless enough in this instance.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000

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NoNukes
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Message 52 of 53 (809947)
05-22-2017 10:46 AM
Reply to: Message 47 by Faith
05-22-2017 3:57 AM


Re: Other geniuses
Please go back and read what I said in context. Sheesh.
I did. Your comments were just wrong.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000

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