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Originally Posted by stargazzer
Here's some interesting data: Who are the Black Physicists?
The reason I'm posting this is that last night there were some un-speakable comments
directed towards the N/A Black of which I challenged.
Ihope this person and others with same insane ideas has a good look at above
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Wow, did a 12-year old create this website? It is amazing to what lengths people will go to try to prove a point.
Lets see, where do I even begin. Oh here, on the front page.
"Stephon Alexander - young and very good" - Excellent analysis....
A large chunk of the people on this website havn't even graduated from college yet. Many others seem to be unemployed. Most of the rest are only employed through the school systems, which tend to push "diversity".
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/04.10/11-action.html
"A boldly worded title - "Do the Right Thing: Why Harvard Supports Affirmative Action and Why Every College Should"
And most of what has been claimed on this website is pure speculation. Such as this guy.
Walter S. McAfee - Astrophysicist of the African Diaspora
"For this they needed an accurate computation of the velocity of a position on the moon relative to a position on the earth. Dr. McAfee performed the calculations, and on Jan. 10, 1946, the experiment was successfully conducted. Unfortunately, McAfee's contributions to Project Diana (even his name) were not mentioned in news reports about the experiment."
Walter McAfee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"According to Dr. Henry Louis Gates, "Official news of this scientific breakthrough did not include McAfee's name, nor was there any recognition of the essential role he played. But Americans could not have walked on the moon had it not been for Walter S. McAfee and his calculations.""
I believe that is the same Henry Louis Gates that was fighting with the white police officer up in Massachusetts, calling him a racist. It makes me wonder why only Henry Louis Gates seems to say that McAfee made these calculations, and no one else.
Another oddity is this woman.
Beth Brown - Astronomer of the African Diaspora
"Thus far, Beth A. Brown is the only African American female to capitalize on her Ph.D. in astronomy to find employment outside of academia." - Yes, the only single one
And lastly. Look at all the gimmicky titles and awards these people supposedly "earned". Like the "Imes and Morehouse prize", which is only given to African-Americans. No wonder they always win it. The prize is part of the NSBP, which means, national society of black physicists. Morehouse is an all-black college.
"Walter E. Massey - From Physics to President of Morehouse" - No way?
"Julius Henry Taylor - author of The Negro in Science" - Niiice
"Clifford Johnson - extremely research active mathematical physicist on leave to USC" - Yes, extremely active
Theres a suspiciously high number of people on this list connected in some way to Howard University. Isn't that the historically black Howard University?
Howard University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From the looks of it, the whole thing stinks of affirmative-action, wishful thinking, and outright desperation.
Funny2 - True Facts #3 (http://www.funny2.com/facts2.htm - broken link)
"A perfect SAT score is 1600 combined. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, Bill's partner in Microsoft, scored a perfect 1600. Bill Cosby scored less than 500 combined. "
African Americans by the Numbers — Infoplease.com
"Revenues for black-owned businesses in 2002 - $88.6 billion"
If you contrast that with the $10.5 trillion economy of the United States in 2002. Then black-owned businesses contributed approximately
.84% to the United States economy. Amazing.
But I do have some good news.
Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE than all the NIKE factory workers in Malaysia combined. And Tiger Woods has more money(well before his wife gets a big chunk) than the entire GDP of nine African countries.
Stick to sports.