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Leighann Garber
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Already hooked in the prologue
She (author is a Black woman) grew up with a church full of mathematicians and "so many African Americans working in science, math and engineering that I thought that's just what black folks did'
Wow
I grew up around rich white people
And later moved around poor white people who are also largely ignorant and uneducated. I don't know any mathematicians . This is so cool
— Oct 27, 2026 09:54PM
She (author is a Black woman) grew up with a church full of mathematicians and "so many African Americans working in science, math and engineering that I thought that's just what black folks did'
Wow
I grew up around rich white people
And later moved around poor white people who are also largely ignorant and uneducated. I don't know any mathematicians . This is so cool
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Leighann Garber
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Good point- the brilliant Black scholars couldn't teach at white schools so the Black schools got incredible professors, even tho they were smaller and poorer in most cases.
— Oct 28, 2026 10:10PM
Leighann Garber
is on page 9 of 349
Ths us hiring hundreds of black women during wwii to do math, while they have to segregate the bathroom, sounds so out of place i wouldn't believe it not knowing this book/movie
But a whole bunch of the engineers, coders and military who design weapons and work for the government are trans in this 2026 hostile world. There are a lot of parallels and overlapping reasons. Fascinating
— Oct 28, 2026 01:44PM
But a whole bunch of the engineers, coders and military who design weapons and work for the government are trans in this 2026 hostile world. There are a lot of parallels and overlapping reasons. Fascinating
Leighann Garber
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The book took 6 years to research and write and had a movie option before it was completed. Mind blown
— Oct 27, 2026 10:06PM