Hidden Figures : Why did they have colored bathrooms at NASA in 1961?

They didn't have colored bathrooms in the Pentagon in 1961.

They didn't. Just another of the many race-baiting concoctions in this movie.

Now let me guess

And also MLK was just a Communist-inspired troublemaker. Leading protests at that time about lies and half-truths (just like this movie).

Is that pretty much it???





No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Wrong answer. It was true. Read the book.

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It was true. Read the book.

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According to the book, while NACA had segregated bathrooms in the fifties, NASA never had segregated bathrooms at Langley.


You want thingamabobs? I got twenty!

Truth hurt? This takes place at Langely Air Force base in Hampton, VA. and it was definitely segregated in 1961.

Just because it was segregated, does not mean people had to follow.

No. But if you didnt you were breaking the law and could be arrested. That's the ugly, relevant fact

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Just because it was segregated, does not mean people had to follow.

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Yes, they did. Segregation was the law at that time. Not following it was breaking the law.

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Katherine G. Johnson didn't actually, she just used the regular restrooms. It was Mary Jackson who ran into that particular bit of discrimination in real life.

You're not very smart are you?





I have a very low tolerance for stupid so if I ignore you it's nothing personal.

@uggs and the OP:

They didn't work in the Pentagon,fools. Look it up.

and you are Another idiotic race baiting troll trying to assert history that he/she doesn't know.

"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility"
Stan Lee, 1962

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by uggs94 2 days ago (Fri Jan 13 2017 16:02:37) Flag | Reply |
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They didn't. Just another of the many race-baiting concoctions in this movie

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Are you still upset that your lady got plowed by a Black man and left you?

You forgot to add " and sh-t." You blacks always add that - why is that?

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by uggs94 9 hours ago (Mon Jan 16 2017 13:28:38) Flag | Reply |
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You forgot to add " and sh-t." You blacks always add that - why is that?

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How old are you? Are you learning about Black people by watching old 1970s Blaxplotation films or something? Nobody talks like that. Are you like stuck in Wyoming or something!

No fat ghost sailor is going to tell me what type of biscuits I can eat ~ Grandma Huang

(I don't know, but you've apparently been watching a lot of interracial pr0nand sh*t) LOL

No fat ghost sailor is going to tell me what type of biscuits I can eat ~ Grandma Huang

Hunh?

They're always thinking of you?

As we've seen recently in the news, the South is overly concerned with who is using their bathrooms.

In any case, look up Senator Byrd's "massive resistance" strategy regarding the state of Virginia's attempt to defy desegregation.

Or is the point, why are so few demanding to switch? A man is a man, a women is a woman. Boundaries are to protect, not be broken down anytime someone has a notion.

Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley

Boundaries? The Jim Crow bathroom nonsense in the South was a boundary that people tried to protect too.

Like you, they felt their boundary should not be broken down anytime soon.

Jim Crow supporters worked hard to keep people they felt were "icky" out of their bathrooms, but their ignorant fear mongering (black people have venereal diseases that white people would catch from toilet seats!) didn't work, and the bathroom boundary was broken down.

It sounds like you've bought into the ignorant fear-mongering spread by those working hard to keep out the "icky" transgender people.

Don't be so gullible, especially when it's Southerners warning you about "danger" in the bathroom

Southerners have been lying about bathroom fears for almost a century now!

That is a prejudicial boundary. Apples & Oranges. People are born, by genetics, male and female. A preexisting, creative code of order.

Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley

Now I see why you're having trouble, you're confused by the terminology.

To bring you up to speed, "sex" and "gender" are two words that refer to the differences between males and females. Though these two terms are commonly used interchangeably, there is a distinct difference between sex and gender.

The main difference between them is that sex refers to the biological and physiological differences between males and females whereas gender refers to the social and cultural differences between men and women.

Let me know if you need help with anything else.

Let Me Help Your Prog Confusion. Men are born by Genetic Creative order, Same as Fe"Males." Why There Are Men's Restrooms and Women's Restrooms.
Don't Try to Confuse More Of The Confused.

Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley

Now you're just being silly.

Whatever your "genetic creative order" is supposed to be, it's not something that exists in the real world.

The nonsense over bathrooms in the South has continually hurt their reputation, whether they had issues with blacks or transgenders.

Fortunately, America has elected a president who isn't concerned with the culture wars of the Jesus freaks:

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Matt Lauer asked Trump, "So if Caitlyn Jenner were to walk into Trump Tower and want to use the bathroom, youd be fine with her using any bathroom she chooses?

"That is correct," Trump said. He added that there has been a "big move to create new bathrooms" for transgender people and he disagrees with any of those policies because he thinks it would be "discriminatory in a certain way" and "unbelievably expensive."

North Carolina did something it was very strong and theyre paying a big price, Mr. Trump said. And theres a lot of problems. And I heard one of the best answers I heard was from a commentator yesterday saying, leave it the way it was.

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In your Snowflake world, Up is Down, Down is up. All about, "feelings." Not Science, nor Biology. "Feelings." It is hilarious that so many misguided people, only care about themselves, their "feelings", and not about societal norms and boundaries, in place to protect the most vulnerable in society, children and women.


Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley

Yes, the "women and children" excuse was used in the 1950's too.

Oh, our women and children can't use the same bathroom as the blacks!

Today, it'sOh, our women and children can't use the same bathroom as the transgenders!

Amazing how those who fail to remember history are destined to repeat it.

In your intolerant world, anyone different has to be discriminated against.

And "social norms" are some of the tools that accomplish that.

Your unloving and lack of concern for children is appalling. Has nothing to do with race. But you stooped down using the race card.
LGBTIPQ Need Help. That is compassion.

Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley

Race card? That's funnysince it actually fell out of your past.

I simply mentioned the South's obsession with race in the 1950s, and how that has morphed into their obsession with another minority group in the current era!

Notice a pattern here?

The "pattern" is your grasping at straws, when the important point is sin.
Bye

Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley

HmmmChristianity or Moralism?

With you, I can't tell the difference.

Moralism is wrong because it is anti-Gospel, anti-grace, and legalist. It judges by the letter of the law, which the moralist blindly does not understand one cannot keep.

By condemning others, a moralist is also condemning himself: "But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins" (Matthew 6:15).

"We live in a Broken world. We don't heal the brokenness, by building a shrine to it. The reason God puts parameters around our life is, He wants our lives to be full, to be complete in every way. He has given us a manual to bind our wounds, to bind our brokenness.

We should not in any way say, "Because I have a propensity towards lust, lets enshrine lust as a noble thing."

We have to resist it because the Maker says that if we don't, we will pay the consequences, because, those consequences follow exorbitantly as night follows day. Thank God He has provided a way for us, to feel wholeness, in the midst of a broken world.

So we can't, in anyway, nullify what the Bible says, because what happens then you determine what is right and what is wrong, depending on what is politically correct at any given time, or whose is in power. At one time, when he was in power, you have Obama say it is simply wrong to be involved in same sex sexuality or same sex marriage. Well later on, he changed his mind, that's a matter of "following the herd", during what is "politically expedient" or whats "politically popular" at the time.

The difference in scripture, is that God has given us His word, we can trust Him even if we do not even understand. We don't try to do it our own way, we try to do it His way, then we find true happiness, in the midst of life's storms."

-Hank Hanegraaff

Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley

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Do the gods love something because it is pious, or is something pious because the gods love it? - Socrates

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If something is good simply because a god has commanded it, anything could be considered good. There would be no way of predicting what in particular the god might desire next, and it would be entirely meaningless to assert that "God is good."

On the other hand, if a god's commandments are based on a knowledge of the inherent goodness of an act, we are faced with the realization that there is a standard of goodness independent of the god.

In our quest for the good, we can bypass the god and go to his source!

As you can see, ethics, not divine revelation, is the guide to life.

Perhaps NASA was ahead of the curve, but coloured bathrooms were a fact in 1961. So was the "back of the bus" routine. The race hatred was very real. If these women didn't have to e=deal with it at NASA, it would have been everywhere else.

All U.S. military facilities even in the South had been desegregated by 1954 so it seems doubtful there would have been separate bathrooms in 1961 as NASA was a federal agency on a military base at Langley. I was surprised by the bus scene since I had thought that Rosa Parks and the victory in the Montgomery Bus Boycott had settled that issue 4 years earlier. A little literary license can be expected but overall it was an accurate depiction.

Between this film and LOVING, the Virginia of that time is not getting a good rap. Though parts of it are just outside DC and the entire state is not "Deep" South because of location, it could be as determined as the lower Southern states.

Because the military was ordered to be desegregated by Truman in 1948, while the rest of civilian America wasn't legally ordered to be desegregated until 1964.

It should also be noted that in neither case were the day-to-day effects of those orders anything close to immediate. In fact, in many statistically measurable ways America is more segregated right now than it was in the decade or so after that 1964 Civil Rights Act.





No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

These positions were occupied by civilians. Read the book.

Why do you think I even bothered to distinguish between the two?





No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Why did you go pay to see this movie? Just to challenge everything? Unless you were there, shut the fnck up.

Perfectly reasonable question what's the problem?

NASA didn't enforce them as much as the film claims. I think Harrison taking a hammer to the sign was a nod to the fact NASA generally ignored those segregation rules.

However, even though Katherine didn't have to go across Langley to use the bathroom, it did kinda happen to Mary where she had to spend a lot of time looking for a segregated bathroom.

If you can read this then you are trying too hard.

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However, even though Katherine didn't have to go across Langley to use the bathroom

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Sorry, but those bathroom run scenes are a direct result of her personal testimony. And since she happens to still be alive






No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Thank you. She is alive and told her story. The scene where Kevin Costner took a hammer to the sign is made up as Katherine said she desegregated the bathrooms on her own.

It wasn't at NASA. It was in Hampton, VA at Langely Air Force base, and VA was a segregated state. The Pentagon is in DC, not segregated.

Racist trolls are here to muddy the the story with lies, half-truths and what amounts to fake news. They want to confuse people about the truth and they do it with every single movie about the black experience in America. It's their darned job.

They should seek out more honest, respectable, work like piano player in a brothel.

Don't feed the trolls.

Florida?