Gee’s Reviews > 'Whitey on the Moon': Race, Politics, and the death of the U.S. Space Program, 1958 - 1972 > Status Update

Duke Ellington, whose music represented an older generation, performed for ABC’s national audience a new song, “Moon Maiden,” to mark the event. But when the successful moon landing was announced to 50,000 African-Americans at a soul concert in Harlem, many booed

We made it national policy to return life in this country to a level barely above the primordial ooze from which we supposedly originated; we made it national policy for devolution and Idiocracy to pave the way for our future.

We once went to the moon. We can't go back now, not because mankind is getting dumber, but because mankind is being forced to dilute the category of excellence so that Black people won't be left out

Instead of investing money in the "gifted" segments of society, we seem committed to de-investing from those programs and redistributing that money to areas of consistent failure