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NASA’s First Black Astronaut To Orbit The Moon Pulls Political Race Card Using Poem: "Whitey On The Moon"
Conservative Firing Line ^ | April 23, 2023 | News Editors

Posted on 04/27/2023 11:13:36 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Victor Glover will make history as the first black astronaut to orbit the moon, piloting next year’s Artemis II mission, but for some incomprehensible reason, he has decided to make the mission just as much about race by invoking a 1970s poem titled, “Whitey On the Moon.”

In an interview with Axios on Monday, Glover, who is also a US Navy Captain, claimed that the United States is in a similar place as it was when the original Apollo program was launched. The poem is being used to illustrate his point. Many Americans would contend that the claim is untrue and appears to be a woke message condoned by NASA.

"Honestly, I started listening to [the poem] in the car to talk with my colleagues about it,” Glover said during the interview. “I live in the America that sent me to space, told my grandfather he couldn’t fly during the Korean conflict when he was enlisted, but he got to sit and watch me fly. We live in a very complicated country.”

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: artemis11; blackracist; nasa; victorglover
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I have a feeling this diversity NASA mission is going to come back haunt him......in outer space.
1 posted on 04/27/2023 11:13:36 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Wait, why do black people need NASA to send them to the moon? I thought the mothership was coming to pick them up?


2 posted on 04/27/2023 11:16:17 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Macho MAGA Man

When is Mr 13% gonna get there, again?


3 posted on 04/27/2023 11:16:56 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

The guy has not orbited anything yet.

Talk is cheap.


4 posted on 04/27/2023 11:17:51 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

And if the races were reversed? Yeah, thought so.


5 posted on 04/27/2023 11:19:14 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Should this guy even be an astronaut ? Oh wait black astronaut ,LOL


6 posted on 04/27/2023 11:20:11 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Unqualified token hire. He’s probably never earned a damn thing in his life, but he’ll be there with full incompetence to eff something up. That does not turn out well in space.


7 posted on 04/27/2023 11:20:51 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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>> I have a feeling this diversity NASA mission is going to come back haunt him......in outer space.

Space justice? Klingon Karma?


8 posted on 04/27/2023 11:21:10 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Proof, as if needed, that the woke cancer is well established in our no longer respectable or believable military. Believe these dorks at your risk. Anyone playing the race card has self identified...as a racist.


9 posted on 04/27/2023 11:21:10 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Macho MAGA Man

IIRC, Obama wanted NASA to be Mulim run.


10 posted on 04/27/2023 11:22:20 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

If he simply has to interject race, he should be writing a poem about how much society has changed to the point where this country now has black astronauts and had elected a black president.


11 posted on 04/27/2023 11:23:17 AM PDT by KittyKares
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Kick the racist Negro off the team...

How long would have a Caucasian astronaut remained on the team if the poem “Blacky On The Moon” had been used?


12 posted on 04/27/2023 11:23:33 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Sacajaweau

He diverted NASA funding to Muslim outreach programs.


13 posted on 04/27/2023 11:24:15 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

What do you call a black astronaut.....?


14 posted on 04/27/2023 11:24:19 AM PDT by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: ConservativeInPA

Space travel is about “cold equations”.

Anything else is trouble, big trouble.


15 posted on 04/27/2023 11:24:22 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: SuperLuminal

They would have been fired immediately and had their astronaut wings pulled.


16 posted on 04/27/2023 11:25:06 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: Lockbar

Blackonaut????


17 posted on 04/27/2023 11:25:54 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: Macho MAGA Man
Walking On The Moon
18 posted on 04/27/2023 11:26:42 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Armstrong was the first man to step foot upon the Moon.

Glover might someday be the first Black man to "take a knee" on the Moon.

Is he going to demand separate facilities / a "safe space" in the Command Module?

Disgusting!

Regards,

19 posted on 04/27/2023 11:27:56 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-nasa-director-says-muslim-outreach-push-deeply-flawed


20 posted on 04/27/2023 11:28:27 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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