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In a 1998 article for the New Yorker, author Toni Morrison declared Bill Clinton to be the first black President and on a recent Saturday Night Live, Keenan Thompson and Daryl Hammond portraying Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson did a bit with a blackness scale, where they put presidential candidate Barack Obama being a little less black than Bill
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Bill Cosby was honest and he was lynched for it.
I would add that there is a distinction between technical expertise, industrial infrastructure and willingness to take risks.
If we had The Saturn V’s on the pad today, we would still never launch another Apollo. We roasted three astronauts that way after all.
We as a civilization are not willing to take risks, because we as a civilization are not willing to accept losses. The balance of importance has shifted. We as a civilization, are omniphobic to nonfunction.
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