This is a re-post from July 20, 2011, with an up-dated introduction ~
 
As progressives attempt to do with all of the inspiring achievements in American history, they’re now trying to rewrite the facts surrounding our space program and the 1969 moon landing, throwing divisive identity politics into the mix, as Igor Ogorodnev points out ~

Attacks on ‘white & male’ Moon landing prove no US achievement is too big for liberals to destroy ~
 
With the Founding Fathers now rarely mentioned in the media without side notes about their slave ownership, and the Betsy Ross flag offensive to Colin Kaepernick and Nike, there is nothing new about liberal attempts to strike at the very heart of American identity.

Ogorodnev includes several mainstream quotes lamenting the “whiteness” of NASA

“We chose to go to the moon. Or at least, some did: watching [documentary film] Apollo 11, it is impossible not to observe that nearly every face you see is white and male,” left-wing magazine New Statesman wrote in a recent piece.
 
 
A recent Guardian review of the documentary Armstrong features the writer talking about “good ol’ boys from NASA – elderly white men every one of them, who you suspect are still pining for the days of American life when men were men and women waited by the phone in headscarves,” though no evidence is given for the assertion.

What world are these deconstructionists living in?

No one at NASA could have helped living in 1960s America, or made its social structures, workplace roles, and demographics fit in with 2019 journalists’ conceptions. For God’s sake, many were Germans who had served the Nazi Party with varying degrees of reluctance during World War II, before being whisked away through Operation Paperclip – how do they fit into 21st century privilege hierarchies? Could Wernher von Braun have been an African-American woman from Louisiana?
 
Or would it have been better to stay on Earth until US society advanced enough to send the right people into space? Or perhaps let the Soviets get there first, since for all their class-based ideology they didn’t want to handicap themselves in the space race […]
 
(P)icking people for posts on the basis of historic justice, skin color and chromosome combinations is a recipe for uncompetitive organizations, where the most talented never succeed, or merely drag along the quota-fillers.

 
Not to mention a formula for creating a society filled with pathetic, uninspired, underachieving drones. (Exactly what the progressives want?)
 
 
I thank God every day that I grew up when America was still a land of big dreams, big opportunities and big inspiration – for everyone that wanted those things.
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July 20th, 1969.
I’ll never forget where I was 52 years ago today; sitting at a picnic table with family and friends in a Durango, CO campground. Almost spellbound, our gazes shifted between the 8 inch black and white T.V. screen in front of us – to the white globe floating in the night sky above us – and back again –
 

The Eagle had landed – and Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon!
 
How cool was that!
 
I don’t remember any rousing shouts of “USA USA” – more just a sense of awe that the seemingly impossible had been accomplished. It was a moment that represented all the best human qualities; imagination, inventiveness, perseverance, hope, confidence, courage.
 
In addition to the American flag, Apollo 11 left behind a plaque on the moon:
 

 
Not just an American moment – a human moment. And truly inspiring.
 

Today I’m wondering what young Barry Soetoro was doing on July 20th, 1969. At that time he was living in Indonesia with his (“free spirit”/Muslim/atheist) stepfather and his loony-leftie mother and would have been just shy of his 8th birthday. What was he feeling about that “giant leap for mankind”?
 
I can’t really speculate but I doubt that he sensed anything like the wonder and amazement most of us experienced as witnesses to that milestone in human history. Raised with a skewed world-view, I don’t think he had much exposure to the noble side of human nature.
 
Unfortunately for us, Barry – now Barack – brought his false belief system into the White House with him. And set himself on a relentless mission to destroy our hope and faith in American traditions; everything good, decent, honorable – and awe-inspiring about this country. Including;
 
• the military
• the Constitution
• and NASA.
 
Barry’s “inspiration” came not from optimism in the better side of human nature, but from a vision of utopia which can never be realized without the iron fist of big government beating humans into submission to change their nature.
Barack is now imposing that destructive vision on us.
 
One giant leap…backwards.
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Related sites:
Save Manned Space
Space policy and the Constitution