So, let me see if I understand this correctly.
John Asher Johnson, a professor of astrophysics and astronomy at Harvard University, has revealed himself to be a bigot and a clueless idiot. Quite an accomplishment for an esteemed scientist.
Was I on target?
I took a semester of astronomy in college - never got any telescope time. You’ve got to be pretty high up in the program to do that.
There are other ways of learning astronomy besides looking through a telescope. In fact, most of what I learned was not in the lab, per se...a lot of math/physics, actually.