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

[Anonymous]

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

You mean everytime it's racism, it's racism
fixed that for you

[Anonymous]

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

So are you saying it wasn't racism? It was just run of the mill trolling/bad behavior?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love that they are cheerleaders. That really made me smile. Fantastic project. Get those girls to Flint!
Bravo ladies.

- also 4chan is an abomination

Kudos to these girls. In high school, I was a cheerleader and national merit scholar. One classmate said I was an oxymoron to be both and many other things of high accomplishment. I told him he was just a moron for believing one person could not excel in several fields.

[Anonymous]

I'm sure NASA felt the voting idea was good outreach: a way to maybe get high school peers to come online and at least see what the different ideas entailed.
Too bad trolls got involved

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a Howard University graduate. Howard was always my dream school.

I arrived at Howard coming from rural NC, so boy was I shocked at the school's immediate environs. There are some pretty tough spots around the school. I'm just being real. But I learned to navigate it, and I still hold my experiences there as some of the best times of my life. Easily.

I mention this because Banneker School and the Incubator Lab are in close proximity to Howard. These gifted young ladies sacrificed their weekends and traversed some if-y spots to compete with other students - who may not have had to deal with similar challenges (I'm guessing, here.).

Environments matter. Admittedly, I don't know these young ladies full circumstances. But I've long believed that we could learn a great deal from high achievers who "grow from concrete".

It must have been a while since you were at Howard. Houses in that neighborhood are now close to $1M.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Howard University graduate. Howard was always my dream school.

I arrived at Howard coming from rural NC, so boy was I shocked at the school's immediate environs. There are some pretty tough spots around the school. I'm just being real. But I learned to navigate it, and I still hold my experiences there as some of the best times of my life. Easily.

I mention this because Banneker School and the Incubator Lab are in close proximity to Howard. These gifted young ladies sacrificed their weekends and traversed some if-y spots to compete with other students - who may not have had to deal with similar challenges (I'm guessing, here.).

Environments matter. Admittedly, I don't know these young ladies full circumstances. But I've long believed that we could learn a great deal from high achievers who "grow from concrete".

It must have been a while since you were at Howard. Houses in that neighborhood are now close to $1M.

Expensive does not always mean nice, ghetto doesn’t always mean cheap.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Asians get attacked and undermined and profiled and made fun of all the time due to race, yet somehow it only makes them stronger.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/16/academy-sorry-for-offensive-chris-rock-asian-joke-no-word-from-chris-rock/?utm_term=.d5abd903642b

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I am a Howard University graduate. Howard was always my dream school.

I arrived at Howard coming from rural NC, so boy was I shocked at the school's immediate environs. There are some pretty tough spots around the school. I'm just being real. But I learned to navigate it, and I still hold my experiences there as some of the best times of my life. Easily.

I mention this because Banneker School and the Incubator Lab are in close proximity to Howard. These gifted young ladies sacrificed their weekends and traversed some if-y spots to compete with other students - who may not have had to deal with similar challenges (I'm guessing, here.).

Environments matter. Admittedly, I don't know these young ladies full circumstances. But I've long believed that we could learn a great deal from high achievers who "grow from concrete".

It must have been a while since you were at Howard. Houses in that neighborhood are now close to $1M.

Expensive does not always mean nice, ghetto doesn’t always mean cheap.

Yeah it does

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Howard University graduate. Howard was always my dream school.

I arrived at Howard coming from rural NC, so boy was I shocked at the school's immediate environs. There are some pretty tough spots around the school. I'm just being real. But I learned to navigate it, and I still hold my experiences there as some of the best times of my life. Easily.

I mention this because Banneker School and the Incubator Lab are in close proximity to Howard. These gifted young ladies sacrificed their weekends and traversed some if-y spots to compete with other students - who may not have had to deal with similar challenges (I'm guessing, here.).

Environments matter. Admittedly, I don't know these young ladies full circumstances. But I've long believed that we could learn a great deal from high achievers who "grow from concrete".

It must have been a while since you were at Howard. Houses in that neighborhood are now close to $1M.

Expensive does not always mean nice, ghetto doesn’t always mean cheap.

Yeah it does

I don’t care how much houses are going for. I live 2 blocks from Howard/Banneker. Have you seen or hung around that stretch of Georgia Ave? It’s a million dollar ghetto.

[Anonymous]

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?

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

Asians get attacked and undermined and profiled and made fun of all the time due to race, yet somehow it only makes them stronger.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/16/academy-sorry-for-offensive-chris-rock-asian-joke-no-word-from-chris-rock/?utm_term=.d5abd903642b

pound sand, troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is fantastic. But as a broader matter, government is failing if it can’t deliver safe drinking water.

Um, there’s lead in some of the drinking fountains at my DC’s suburban MD elementary school. And the city of Flint, MI still doesn’t have clean water. Meanwhile, waterbin MI is being sold to Nestle to be bottled.

[Anonymous]

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?

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

Asians get attacked and undermined and profiled and made fun of all the time due to race, yet somehow it only makes them stronger.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/16/academy-sorry-for-offensive-chris-rock-asian-joke-no-word-from-chris-rock/?utm_term=.d5abd903642b

Racism is bad when it comes to blacks. It is acceptable when it comes to Asians. Your article proves it. I find it ironic that a black person was the offender

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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.

Do you think you harbor any racial prejudices? Just curios about how you see yourself.

DP here and I don't know your intentions, but man that question steams me when it comes up. The basic premise seems to be that people who have experienced racism must just eat it and realize that most white people are a-okay (which is not the whole truth) otherwise they themselves are racist.

Such bullsh!t.

Ok.

What would you say about a white person who grew up in a county where they were bussed to underperforming black schools far from their home, in order to intergrate schools and help raise test scores, and spent much of their youth being bullied, assaulted and robbed by classmates, simply because they were one of the only white children in that school?

If a person who grew up in that environment viewed all black people as hateful, potentially violent and worthy of being feared, would you suggest that white person harbors racial prejudices?

What are your feelings on this scenario?

NP here. YES!!!! You are confusing prejudice and bias with justification for feeling that way. And your bias runs so deep you can't even see the difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a Howard University graduate. Howard was always my dream school.

I arrived at Howard coming from rural NC, so boy was I shocked at the school's immediate environs. There are some pretty tough spots around the school. I'm just being real. But I learned to navigate it, and I still hold my experiences there as some of the best times of my life. Easily.

I mention this because Banneker School and the Incubator Lab are in close proximity to Howard. These gifted young ladies sacrificed their weekends and traversed some if-y spots to compete with other students - who may not have had to deal with similar challenges (I'm guessing, here.).

Environments matter. Admittedly, I don't know these young ladies full circumstances. But I've long believed that we could learn a great deal from high achievers who "grow from concrete".

Been a little while since you have been back to visit, huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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

Asians get attacked and undermined and profiled and made fun of all the time due to race, yet somehow it only makes them stronger.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/16/academy-sorry-for-offensive-chris-rock-asian-joke-no-word-from-chris-rock/?utm_term=.d5abd903642b

Racism is bad when it comes to blacks. It is acceptable when it comes to Asians. Your article proves it. I find it ironic that a black person was the offender

and jews

Because Jews and Asians are successful aka not URM democrats says its ok to be racist against them. This is why identiy politics is such bs. Racism is terrible period and needs to be rooted out period. Some of the most racist people in DC live in Ward 8.....