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Neil deGrasse Tyson explains barriers imposed to him due to race: (Original Post) Cooley Hurd Apr 2014 OP
He has a great response to a question yesphan Apr 2014 #1
Barriers. That's funny. The high school in our town, big, nice, rebuilt, installed a coffee bar jtuck004 Apr 2014 #2
That's odd tavalon Apr 2014 #3
It's in the last 5 minutes of the video BTW. mucifer Apr 2014 #4
 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
2. Barriers. That's funny. The high school in our town, big, nice, rebuilt, installed a coffee bar
Fri Apr 18, 2014, 03:02 PM
Apr 2014

and are touting it's ability to help kids get ready for the workforce...

lol - they could have built a planetarium, or the largest hydroponics and open seed distribution center in a high school or...

but no, they think it's cool to teach kids how to run cash registers. Like at Walmart.

The barriers are those we create ourselves, and those we refuse, or are afraid to, tear down. There will always be mean people, racists, and the odds are terrific that they will never change, all the way to the grave for the vast majority of them, 20 years old or 70 years old. The best work, hell, the only work is to pursue the things that marginalize their effect. Like making sure education is a life-long pursuit of more knowledge, instead of the debased and almost tragic/ comedic profit center for private enterprise and the government it is now in the process of being transformed into.


tavalon

(27,985 posts)
3. That's odd
Sat Apr 19, 2014, 03:19 AM
Apr 2014

I was looking up what he had to say to global warming deniers and came across this by accident. About 15 minutes ago, on Upworthy. No really. The thing is, the question was actually about women and yet, he was able, in his astronomically amazing way, to show, using his own racial barriers, why we might wish to look at society before genetics when asking why there aren't more women in science.

It was sublime. Surely this man has said something stupid in his long life, but I have yet to hear it.

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