'Whitey on the Moon': Race, Politics, and the death of the U.S. Space Program, 1958 - 1972

by Paul Kersey

We went to the moon. This is a fact. Indisputable, except to those conspiracy theorists clinging to their belief some sinister plot was hatched by the U.S. Government to conceal our inability to navigate to earth's natural satellite. On July 20, 1969, man first stood on the moon; on December 18, 1972, man stood on the moon for the last time. What happened to end the dream of space exploration, left instead to the colorful imagination of Trekkies and science fiction fans believing some diverse band of humans could navigate the heavens in a Utopian future? The US Government neutered NASA by forcing a much different mission upon the space agency: diversity and the promotion of blacks. We went to the moon. On multiple occasions. When NASA was nearly all-white, with an all-white astronaut team. But in 1972, the Apollo program was grounded, with the Space Shuttle program becoming a glorified experiment in social engineering and special interest group cheer-leading. Each successive launch included women, blacks, and other racial minorities, not for the sake of exploration, but for the sake of gender and racial equality. The glory of NASA and mankind's great moments in space exploration were all milestones performed under the watchful of an almost completely white NASA, devoid of the hindrance of affirmative action programs and the shackles of Equal Employment Opportunity mandates. The mandate then was to get the moon; the mandate soon after was the promotion of blackness and diversity, at the expense of the initial dream of exploring the stars. 'Whitey on the Moon': Race, Politics, and the death of the U.S. Space Program, 1958 - 1972 tells the shocking story of NASA's demise from an angle never-before told: the racial angle. Learn the story of Captain Ed Dwight, the black Air Force pilot the Kennedy Administration tried to force on NASA; learn about how General Curtis LeMay and Lt. Colonel Chuck Yeager demanded accountability and stood against what the latter deemed "reverse racism" in how the Kennedy Administration forced a black astronaut candidate on NASA just for the sake of having a black astronaut candidate. Learn about the "Poor People's Campaign" (led by Rev. Ralph Abernathy), which protested the launch of Apollo 11 on July 16th, 1969, by showing up with a horse and buggy. Rev. Abernathy demanded the money going to Apollo and space exploration be redistributed to fight poverty and starvation in America's inner cities... And his vision won out. The final chapters of the book deal not with the exploration and colonization of new worlds, but the redistributing of wealth to pay for EBT/SNAP Food Stamps cards and other welfare payouts. We could have been on Mars, but we had to fund Black-Run American instead...

Genres: History

246 pages, Paperback

First published July 22, 2014

Reviews

[Vagabond of Letters, DLitt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Badly in need of editing and copyediting, with a solid core.

[Tijs · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is not a book. It's a Nazi pamphlet.

The mistake was all mine. It was 2 bucks on Amazon so I didn't read reviews. I thought it was about socio economic problems during the Apollo program. It isn't.

Instead, it's the incoherent rambling of a white nationalist who writes about the difference in intelligence between races. It's a constant stream of racist diarrhea about white supremacy written by an obviously very frustrated and deeply disturbed individual.

To boot, it's not even a book in the real sense of the world. It's a really long Word-document which looks like it was created by someone who first found out how footnotes and bullet points work.

It is sad. Stay away from it. Even if you're a Nazi it wouldn't be really good. The author tries to be Hitler, but even Hitler hired a copywriter for Mein Kampf or something. I wish I could get the 15 minutes of my life back besides the 2 dollars I asked to be refunded.

[Michelle · Rating 1 out of 5]

0/5 stars. (I had to give it one star to offset whoever gave it a 3.5 though.)

Don't get near this thing. It's a trick.

Don't. Just don't.

I don't like to leave books unfinished, but this thing is worse than vaginal prolapse.

The content is even creepier than the Goodreads summary. The guy who wrote this is several light-years beyond disturbed. He should probably be monitored.

Cute gift idea for KKK members though.

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very short book that at first feels like an overview, but then you realize it's made its point well enough. The last bit about Star Wars was a sad way to show how even fictional space was ruined.

[Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Space isn't the final frontier. Race realism is the final frontier, an acceptance of this truth the way back to the stars. If not, all roads point to Detroit"

[Efraim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Truly an eye opening book that will have you beating your head against a wall in sheer anger over what we had and could have had but lost chasing a pipe dream.

[Drew · Rating 1 out of 5]

Only for space exploration specialists who are also race realists. For anyone else, a 300-word essay would have sufficed. Even then, I would not have been interested in reading it.

Nothing in it (as far as I read) was incorrect but this point about race has been made 1,000,000 times. Books like these have their place as a stepping stone but it is hard to imagine a book called 'Whitey on the Moon' getting into the hands of the appropriate person at that step in the journey.

[Gabriel Hamel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid idea of a book in dire need of some proofreading and editing.

[Roy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This why any system of rule a population chooses should be for the population that choose it. When you start caring about other groups, be they more primitive or not, their objectives highjack your own. Conclusion: Were still stuck on an earth that doesnt belong to us anymore, and which we should be able to leave by now.