On This Day In 1969, The Historic American Nation Landed On The Moon

By James Fulford

07/20/2021

Earlier: Landed on Moon, Won Cold War: "The Roots Of White Male Culture: From The British Isles Through the American Prairie To The Boardroom"

In July 2020, the Smithsonian Institution published a thing about "white culture" that included this, as part of a much larger graphic:

Steve Sailer wrote at the time:

Obviously, this is intended with hostility … but if you subtitled it “How to Get to the Moon by 1969” and tacked it up on a college bulletin board, there’d be a nationwide freakout over secret white supremacists running amok on campus.

And I pointed out:

Well, of course, the Historic American nation, as it had evolved by 1969, did make it to the Moon.

Below, NASA’s Apollo 11 Mission Control in all its whiteness and maleness:

If you look very closely, you'll see one lady, and possibly a man whose slightly darker skin isn’t an artifact of black and white photography. Steve Sailer called it "Non-Diversity before Diversity."

They said "the Eagle has landed" when the module hit the moon.

This is the reverse of the Eisenhower silver dollar, issued 1971. When you see it actual size, you have to look close to see that the American Eagle is on cratered surface, with the Earth visible in the sky:

Does the current America have the civilizational self-confidence to do this again?

Good question. Here are some recent VDARE.com headlines on the current space effort:

• Space Force Sets Its Priority: Gender Neutrality
• NYT: "To Make It to the Moon, Women Have to Escape Earth’s Gender Bias"
• NYT: "That 'Giant Leap for Mankind' Happened Thanks to Plenty of Women."
• WaPo: "From Space, Everyone Is a Citizen" Says Latino/Asian Immigrant

That doesn’t sound good.

A while back, they made a movie about the moon-landing with Ryan Gosling. Here’s VDARE.com’s coverage:

• Buzz Mohawk On FIRST MAN
• Sailer Review Of FIRST MAN In TakiMag
• White America’s Flag on the Moon No Longer Worth Celebrating in "First Man"
• Paul Kersey: See FIRST MAN This Weekend! It Depicts A Time Before America Had To Be Made Great Again — When Whitey Was Indeed On The Moon
• NYT: Stop Blaming History for Your All-White, All-Male Movie

Some people might think the Moon landing wasn’t only about white America, because America was diverse, even then.

But, before the 1965 Immigration Act, America was divided into basically two races, white and black, and many blacks were opposed to the space program, because the money could, they thought, be better spent on black single mothers and housing projects:

• Apollo 11, Ralph Abernathy, And The Mule-Drawn Cart
• HIDDEN FIGURES Myth Dissolves — It Wasn’t Blacks Who Got America To The Moon, They Actually Wanted To Stop It

Below, Gil Scott-Heron recites a poem called "Whitey on the Moon" making the point that blacks had problems of poverty and drugs, but white people had decided to go to the moon.

By the way, I almost didn’t mention the movie Hidden Figures, about some black women who worked as "computers" — i.e., doing arithmetical calculations by hand, before electronic computers were invented, a form of mathematical drudgery — because it was about the 1961 Mercury program, covered by Tom Wolfe in The Right Stuff,but a lot of the hype about that said that black women helped America get to the Moon, IE. 'Hidden Figures': How Black Women Did The Math That Put Men On The Moon,NPR, September 25, 2016.

• Hyped Figures: John Glenn And The PC Myth Of Katherine Johnson–Unsung Black Women Were NOT What Got Us To The Moon
• Why Not A Movie About Jack Crenshaw? — The White Man Who Actually Did What HIDDEN FIGURES Credits To Black Women
• An Asian Cultural Marxist Demands We Delete A Paul Kersey Article For Wrongthink

So here’s the man, and here’s the flag, the ultimate in Social Distancing, July 20, 1969.

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