Three black teens are finalists in a NASA competition. Then this happened...

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Anonymous wrote:It's infuriating. Underachieving black people are derided as lazy, stupid, inferior, you name it. But when you have successful, high-achieving black people, there is still backlash! I wonder why that is...anyone care to guess?

White person here. It’s racism. I know it and other whites know it too. Plain and simple. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.

Of course it was racism. Not a single post in this thread disputed that.

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Disgusting

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I don't understand why this is a big deal. Is that because AAs usually don't make it to the finals?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why this is a big deal. Is that because AAs usually don't make it to the finals?

The big deal is that they got viciously attacked and undermined due to race. Duh?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why this is a big deal. Is that because AAs usually don't make it to the finals?

Of course you wouldn't understand. It's normal for black girls (people) to be attacked for thier accomplishments. They should just deal with it and move on. !!!!! THEY SHOULD JUST MOVE ON!!!!

FFS!

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why this is a big deal. Is that because AAs usually don't make it to the finals?

Strangers being mean to kids and undermining their opportunity to win- you don't get the problem, really? Is the fact that the issue that upset these strangers is race what is causing your mental block? Because that is somehow ok to you? It's not ok to treat people, especially children, like this, especially based on race.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why this is a big deal. Is that because AAs usually don't make it to the finals?

^This is the exact kind of person who launches racist attacks on kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why this is a big deal. Is that because AAs usually don't make it to the finals?

Strangers being mean to kids and undermining their opportunity to win- you don't get the problem, really? Is the fact that the issue that upset these strangers is race what is causing your mental block? Because that is somehow ok to you? It's not ok to treat people, especially children, like this, especially based on race.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why this is a big deal. Is that because AAs usually don't make it to the finals?

Strangers being mean to kids and undermining their opportunity to win- you don't get the problem, really? Is the fact that the issue that upset these strangers is race what is causing your mental block? Because that is somehow ok to you? It's not ok to treat people, especially children, like this, especially based on race.

Well, 4chan is already the dregs on online society. This is just another confirmation.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why this is a big deal. Is that because AAs usually don't make it to the finals?

Strangers being mean to kids and undermining their opportunity to win- you don't get the problem, really? Is the fact that the issue that upset these strangers is race what is causing your mental block? Because that is somehow ok to you? It's not ok to treat people, especially children, like this, especially based on race.

Well, 4chan is already the dregs on online society. This is just another confirmation.

You’re really invested in pretending this is a 4chan issue, as opposed to a racist society issue, huh? Do you think 4chan runs police departments and Starbucks as well? Oh, the lies you tell yourself because you don’t bear the brunt of racism.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why this is a big deal. Is that because AAs usually don't make it to the finals?

Strangers being mean to kids and undermining their opportunity to win- you don't get the problem, really? Is the fact that the issue that upset these strangers is race what is causing your mental block? Because that is somehow ok to you? It's not ok to treat people, especially children, like this, especially based on race.

Well, 4chan is already the dregs on online society. This is just another confirmation.

You’re really invested in pretending this is a 4chan issue, as opposed to a racist society issue, huh? Do you think 4chan runs police departments and Starbucks as well? Oh, the lies you tell yourself because you don’t bear the brunt of racism.

The denial is as American as apple pie.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking as a black National Merit Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, Intel finalist and a few other things black people are apparently not supposed to be, this is how white people react when black people do extremely well. My experience has always been that whites are initially convinced the situation was somehow rigged (how can a black be so smart?) and then the pure hatred and envy comes pouring out, whether expressed overtly or passive aggressively or anonymously.

You could focus on the actions of 4chan (a marginalized and semi-legal group of people) or on the actions of NASA, the widely respected and official judging body, who took action to correct the situation, as well as WaPo and whoever is was who brought 4chan's plans to NASA's notice.

As I posted, before Jeff deleted my post for reasons only he understands, it is dishonest to pretend the problem of backlash against black people successfully competing in spaces that whites think are theirs (and, grudgingly, Asians’) is limited to 4chan. I grew up with white parents in the suburbs engaging in the most underhanded tricks (such as brokering deals with school officials to change the rules of awards) to undermine my brother and I. We achieved a lot of “first black” and “first person ever” designations and were #1 and #2 in our classes all of our grade school years. We moved around a lot, but the angry response of white parents when we edged out their kids (complete with racist speech and “jokes”) was consistent. White people are not used to black people competing with them head-to-head in academics and winning.

Its "to undermine my brother and me" honey. Me not I.

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yes black posters everytime you don't get what you want its because of racism. are you freaking kidding me

can we stop with the political bs

and of course what happened to these girls is terrible

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Hopefully they can spin this publicity to ensure spots in top colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:yes black posters everytime you don't get what you want its because of racism. are you freaking kidding me

can we stop with the political bs

and of course what happened to these girls is terrible

No one in any reply claimed that it's racism 'everytime you don't get what you want'. Your mind read it that way because you are in denial. Im asian btw.