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(1,586 posts)and here's a much shorter version of the video that leaves out most of the other stuff.....
http://www.upworthy.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-reveals-that-hes-been-black-his-whole-life-hilarity-and-wisdom-follow?c=gt1
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)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)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.
mucifer
(23,374 posts)It's great! Thanks for posting.