
From the Huffington Post:
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, George Lucas conceived of a film about brave fighter pilots. No, not "Star Wars," but the true-life tale of the barrier-shattering World War II squadron, The Tuskegee Airmen.
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By: max on 8/02/2011 12:44AM
I'll go even further. I have no doubt that in the near future, a movie will come out with Negroes starring as the 3 man crew of Apollo 11, and showing a Negro as the first man on the moon!! It will include the obligatory scenes with racist white people, and the Negroes overcoming tremendous odds, but easily triumphing in the end.
Again, such a movie wouldn't be any more ridiculous or more a re-write of history than this Tuskegee Airman fiction being put out. Nor any more a fiction than all the mythology built around MLK, making him out to be some kind of saint when in fact he was a communist, plagiarist, thief and sexual degenerate.
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By: Rocky on 8/02/2011 3:24AM
max yes why are you here, why do you hate so much, i like to ask you a question have you ever serve, its appraently you haven't, i glad people like you are dying out, in world war 2, if you want to talk about the 8th airforce when they first went to over to England, they did day light bombing with out any air cover because they not have fighter that would go all the way with bombers, so of course they went by them seleves and the germans was picking them off, with alot of losses. The new fighters thunder bolt and mustang didnt get into the war until late, Black pilots was sent over there to do a job and they did it well,they didnt have choice to pick where they went, they was order to go and they it well. My dad was combat medic in the and serve in the pacific, he recieve one bronze star, two purple hearts, 5 overseas service bars, and other ribbions and medals. I serve in vietnam i recieve a bronze star, purple heart, I lost my right foot there. You said dishonor the real heroes, you dishonor all who where the unfiorm of any branch of the service white, black , american japaneese, phiippinos and others. Max you a coward and disgrace to all who serve and die for this country no matter what color or race they are.You are sad piece of work.
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By: cthomas0423 on 8/02/2011 7:38AM
Max, didn't take long for your true colors to come out.
First, I knew you wasn't a true historian. You have a very narrow view, you don't look at the big picture. Those mathematical equations that those scientists were using to put the man on the moon are the same equations that the Egytians were using 4,000 years ago to build pyramids.
The three basic shapes of engineering is the circle, the square and the triangle. Everything is built around those three shapes. It was those 3 shapes that the Roman Empire used 2,000 years ago to build the coliseum and aquaducts were they were able to transport water from the mountains. It was the rope and pulley system that they used to elevate animals and gladiators into the coliseum. Its that same rope and pulley system that many of your elevators use today in your skyscrapers.
As a NEGRO, I have a love for mathematics and engineering. Don't think there haven't been other NEGRO men like me. Just because there were no NEGRO scientists in NASA when man was put on the moon, doesn't mean the NEGRO couldn't grasp the concepts of science and mathematics. It is nothing new. It is concepts that goes back thousand's of years, white America did not create any of it.
Secondly, your RANT says a lot. Be honest, you see a NEGRO president, all of these NEGROs in position of authority. You're losing white America. Can't stand to see that can you???
Oh well, you'll get over it.
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By: max on 8/02/2011 9:04PM
"..white america didn't create any of it"
Talk about ignorant. You need to check the number of Nobel prizes won and patents issued to white scientists in physics and mathematics. While your at it, check out the big ZERO contributions of Negroes to American physics and mathematics.
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By: ADRIAN HARRIS OF GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY, 80-86 BLACKOUT GRADUATE , THE DR. EDDIE G. AND DORIS ROBINSON - DR. CONRAD HUTCHIN on 9/18/2011 1:24AM
HAIL!!! GOD!!! OF URIM(LIGHT)& THUMMIM(PERFECTION)!!! HAIL!! " GO HIGH AS YOU CAN" PEOPLE OF THE SEPIA SPECTRUM!! HAIL!! cthomas0423!!--APOLLO AND THE MOON, SPACE SCIENCES IN THE BLACK-DR. ELMER SAMUEL IMES: PIONEER BLACK PHYSICIST, DISTINGUISHED BLACK ASTRO AND INDUSTRIAL PHYSICIST. IT BECAME LEFT TO HIM TO ESTABLISH DEFINITIVELY THAT THE QUANTUM THEORY COULD BE EXTENDED TO INCLUDE ROTATIONAL STATES OF MOLECULES. RESULTS AS REPORTED IN DR. IVAN VAN SERTIMAS' BOOK AS BEING SAID BY FREDERICK S. SIMMONS' ARTICLE ON "INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF HYDROGEN-FLUORINE FLAMES". QUOTE-IN RESPECTS TO DR. IMES' THESIS WORK IN HIGH FREQUENCY(HF) VIBRATION-ROTATION, IT CERTAINLY DOES QUALIFY AS A PIONEER EFFORT. THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS WORK ARE IMPORTANT TODAY IN 2 AREAS OF TECHNICAL CONCERN; THERMAL RADIATION FROM ROCKET ENGINES USING FLORIDE COMPOUNDS AS OXIDIZERS, AND RADIATION FROM CHEMICAL LASERS BASED ON HYDROGENFLUORINE REACTION. IN EXAMINING THE WORKS OF 2 BLACK PHYSICISTS, DR. GEORGE R. CARRUTHERS AND DR. ELMER SAMUEL IMES, WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEIR ROLES IN {DEVELOPING} AND {EXPANDING}[SPACE SCIENCES]. DR. VANCE H. MARCHBANKS JR. WAS PROJECT HEAD PHYSICIAN PRIOR TO PROJECT MERCURY (THE FIRST U.S. SPACE SHOT). HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLECTING MEDICAL INFORMATION ON THE ASTRONAUTS BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THEIR FLIGHT. WHILE WITH UNITED AIRCRAFT CORP. AS CHIEF OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, MARCHBANKS ASSISTED IN THE DESIGNING OF SPACE SUITS AND MONITORING SYSTEMS FOR THE APOLLO MOON SHOT. (IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE 1ST AMERICAN BLACK TO RECEIVE A PH.D. WAS "DR. EDWARD A. BOUCHET", YALE UNIVERSITY, 1876 IN "PHYSICS".} ALL BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED ON APRIL 12TH 1787 IN PHILIDELPHIA PENN., ON A THURSDAY. THE [FREE AFRICAN SOCIETY], A [SOCIAL COMPACT], BY [8 BLACK MEN]--THE FOUNDING DATE OF "BLACK AMERICA". RICHARD ALLEN, ABSALOM JONES, SAMUEL BOSTON, JOSEPH JOHNSON, CATO FREEMAN, CAESAR CRANCHELL, JAMES POTTER, WILLIAM WHITE. THEY NEW THAT "EVERY GREAT DREAM BEGINS WITH A DREAMER. ALWAYS REMEMBER, YOU HAVE WITHIN YOU THE STRENGTH, THE PATIENCE, AND THE PASSION TO REACH FOR THE STARS TO CHANGE THE WORLD"---HARRIET TUBMAN. NOW PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA AND 1ST FAMILY-THE 1ST BLACK PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES. BYE Y'ALL!!
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By: Rocky on 8/02/2011 10:44AM
max you talk about fictional movies, well here a couple of fictional movies that protray all whites, let start with Command Decision with clark gabel, walter pidgeon, and van johnson, next twelve O' clock high with Gregory Peck,and hugh Marlowe, and how about Memphis Belle with Matthew modine, and Eric stoltz. These are movies who are all white, but when a man who want to do a nonfictional black movie about black airmen. you just hate it. Max get over it and go on with your life.
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By: James on 8/02/2011 12:19PM
don't give Max any attention by responding. Let him have his voice. He needs something to do while he is out of work.
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By: cula w jackson on 8/02/2011 12:57PM
my dad was chaplin for the 99th and he told me stories about the Tuskegee Airmen. I don't believe he would lie about things he saw and was a part of. To be sure he was telling the truth I have found his name in a google site about the Tuskegee Airmen. He died in 1986, and I am glad he was able to tell TRUE tales about the heroics of the famed Tuskegee Airmen.
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By: wayne on 8/02/2011 2:30PM
The numbers are going to forever be in and out of contradiction because 1. it was war we casn never get a clearpicture even if you are there in the midst of the confusion and 2. it was decades ago whether we think so or not every soldier on water, land, air,or even those who saw no actio like mechanics,engineers,or whatever were in my book heroes.
I just say the bravery came from fighting foreign enemies as well as domestic ignorance. I am no historian but the issue is not the numbers but the resolve that it took to perform under the threat of the "job" and the rigors of equality. My dad was in nam and even though it was after the fact he told me about the brotherhood out in the field the problems were more political. We can look atit as a ploy to getmore blacks to fight but look at this.... did blacks fight in the civil war because of so called ratings... the numbers lost is not the issue it is the reason
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By: cthomas0423 on 8/02/2011 10:21PM
Max, let me see if I understand you clearly.
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of DYNAMITE, you are using his Peace Prize awards to determine the best scientist in math and physics???
Don't you think that is kind of ironic??? DYNAMITE has killed more people, has caused more destruction and havoc than anything else invented by man. If you were to combine all the Peace prize winners and look at the contributions that their creations has done, it will pale next to the destruction dynamite has done.
Talk about political ideology, I knew you wasn't a real historian.
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