Coloradoan Ed Dwight Makes History Again With Space Flight
He was supposed to be America’s first Black Astronaut…but….you know…racism…..
Yet a dream deferred turned out not to be a dream denied.
Honoring The Man Who Could’ve Been The First African-American In Space
By Michael de Yoanna
September 30, 2016
Ed Dwight, a Denver-based sculptor who earlier in his life was America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday.
Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963 class.
After that near-miss, Dwight pursued several careers before breaking out as a sculptor. His works, both public monuments and gallery pieces, focus on remembering and celebrating Black history and culture. Among his public commissions are the Underground Railroad monument in Battle Creek, Michigan, and a series of sculptures memorializing jazz greats at the St. Louis Arch museum.
On his flight this Sunday, Dwight, now 90, went through a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule as it skimmed space on a roughly 10-minute flight. He called it “a life changing experience.”
Read more at the link above.
A NYTimes Article on Mr. Dwight.
Because, of course…
The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) posted at 3:38 PM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
Emily Baden, who used to live in the same suburban D.C. cul-de-sac as Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, has claimed in an interview with the Guardian that the justice used his security detail to intimidate Baden and her family on multiple occasions.
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Tell Hamas – ACCEPT CEASEFIRE NOW!!! (@What46HasDone) posted at 3:37 PM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
We gonna learn real quick who was serious about that who ceasefire now thing over the last eight months and for who it was just an aesthetic and a cover for other beliefs that didn’t have anything to do with a ceasefire.
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Shaiel Ben-Ephraim (@academic_la) posted at 1:09 PM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
The speech blind-sided Netanyahu, who was not updated on the speech or its contents. It is based on an Israeli proposal that the entire cabinet voted on a few days ago. However, Netanyahu did NOT want it to go public because it included a willingness to end the war. Biden went…
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nope, won’t beg silly ass progressives for votes (@reesetheone1) posted at 7:52 AM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
A reminder:
Post Watergate, the GOP came within 25k votes in Mississippi and Ohio of winning the electoral college in 1976.
America was gonna reward The GOP with another 4 years and ignore how much a crook Nixon was.
They’ll do the same for Trump.
Dems are in a dogfight. https://t.co/oXpHBrGuoQ
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 0:46 PM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
“Everyone who wants peace now must raise their voices … it’s time for this war to end” — Biden https://t.co/cAGk4WNTIa
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The Very Calm and Polite Biden Guy (@What46HasDone) posted at 1:05 PM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
So there is now a comprehensive ceasefire proposal, backed by the US and approved by Israel, that would see an immediate temporary ceasefire that would progress into a permanent ceasefire and then into the full reconstruction of Gaza. The pressure MUST be on Hamas to agree to it.
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Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay) posted at 0:48 PM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
Yes. This. The deal would require a full cease-fire & withdrawal of all Israeli forces. No occupation. Release of the hostages. An influx of humanitarian aid, including housing. Unless you can identify a poison pill, here, we should all praise this deal.
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Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay) posted at 1:40 PM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
This is true. Biden, as far as I can tell, strategically delivered a proposal Israel had approved. Some have posited that the timing was so Netanyahu couldn’t turn around & tank it. But, either way, this was a very big event. Pretty revealing that the American press didn’t…
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Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay) posted at 1:20 PM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
Do not trust people who demand perfection from the ending of a war. War does not produce good things. The goal, in ending a war, is to minimize harm. People who make the “perfect the enemy of the good” in such cases are either misinformed or malicious.
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Symone D. Sanders Townsend (@SymoneDSanders) posted at 0:45 PM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
Israel only offered this deal due to the sustained engagement by the President, the VP, Secretary Blinken, CIA Director Burns, Sec Austin and many other administration officials. The Administration kept private pressure on the Israelis and it matters
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Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) posted at 11:09 AM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
CNN: Donald Trump is making this 2024 campaign all about him and not about you. That’s precisely what he did at this rambling… don’t even know what to call it, just a venting session before cameras? He was going on and on for 45 minutes. It was surprisingly incoherent, surprisingly all over the place. He was looking kind of like an old man who was just ranting, breathing heavy, in a self involved way. This wasn’t a great outing for him
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Florida Chris (@chrislongview) posted at 6:52 AM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
do the white dudes who are posting im a lifelong dem who has never voted for him but id crawl over broken glass to vote for a convicted felon know we can read the rest of their tweets and see they’re lying? or do they think we’re all as dumb as they are?
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Jennifer “Trump Convicted Felon” Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@JRubinBlogger) posted at 8:27 AM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
Two takeaways flow from understanding what polls are truly measuring and how tuned out a high percentage of voters may be. For starters, Biden’s “message” right now largely isn’t heard by disengaged voters. He cannot persuade people who are not listening. Pronouncements about his “messaging” (usual critical) don’t have much value until the people he needs to reach start listening.
Second, the challenge for Democrats will be to reach the disengaged who would normally lean their way. That means social media, nontraditional media (e.g., “The View”), turn-out-the-vote operations and making the most of high-interest events. (The Biden campaign, for example, announced a massive outreach to African American voters for the summer.) Fortunately for the future of our democracy, the Biden side has a real campaign with hundreds, if not thousands, of people on the ground whose job this will be. The Trump team? It has virtually none.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…
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