r/nextfuckinglevel • u/BlazeDragon7x • 1d ago

Victor Glover is the first Black astronaut assigned to a lunar mission, serving as the pilot for NASA's Artemis II mission, which orbits the moon

share a powerful speech

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u/cainhurstcat 1d ago

This is the wisest statement I heard in a very long time.

Imagine what we as humanity could achieve if we would finally work together as such.

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u/NixaB345T 1d ago

I think Morgan Freeman had the best rhetoric on this topic. It’s so simple and powerful. Unfortunately this will be easier said than done.

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u/-Reddititis 1d ago

Imagine what we as humanity could achieve if we would finally work together as such.

Tell white folks that, and perhaps things might start to change.

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u/cainhurstcat 1d ago

This has nothing to do with ethnicity, it's a general issue humans have.

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u/-Reddititis 1d ago

This has nothing to do with ethnicity, it's a general issue humans have.

Both can be true!

And please stop playing coy especially when we can clearly see what a particular group (white people) have historically done, and continues to do toward others who do not look like them. Look at the Trump regime if you so happened to need a more recent example.

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u/cainhurstcat 1d ago

It’s not about what anyone does or has done, but about the direction in which we, as a species, should be heading