Steve Easterling

When I took APUSH in high school we spent 1/2 a week watching this move in class. The accompanied assignment was a 2 page hand written paper on the negative effects of racism and segregation in 1960s America. Out of curiosity, I did my own reserach into Katherine Johnson (MC of the movie) and found interviews where she described her experience. When asked if she felt segregation at NASA she said she didn't and that everyone was so mission oriented that nobody really cared about race at all. The "white only" restrooms at NASA actually weren't marked at all and she was using those bathrooms for her entire tenure there. The iconic scene of her throwing a temper tantrum about walking for an hour to use the "colored's room" was entirely fake, the rant about using a coffee pot that none of the Whites would touch was entirely fake. Jim Parson's character, the racist/sexist antagonist was entirely fake. Kevin Costner's classic progressive, anti-racist, meritocratic boomer character was also fake. After learning all this, I wrote a paper how the movie portrayed NASA as a deeply racist and destructive place, saved by an uppity black woman screaming and crying about racism. That this portrayl was actually significantly more racist than the reality which was NASA being incredibly professional, where racism was an after thought, and the Black woman actually usurped all racist stereotypes and was renown for her calm professionalism and exceptional work. I was given a C and was given a 1-on-1 scolding in office hours after class.

The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times. We fed billions, cured diseases and powered nations - yet people ran toward conspiracies instead.

“Jesus isn’t the way the truth or the life exclusively. There are many ways to inherit eternal life.” –Satan himself

The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times. We fed billions, cured diseases and powered nations - yet people ran toward conspiracies instead.

The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times. We fed billions, cured diseases and powered nations - yet people ran toward conspiracies instead.