Tuesday 5 September 2017

I am watching Hidden Figures. Based on the true story. African American women working for NASA. There work hadn't been acknowledged until now. Interesting opening scene. 1961. They were the mathematicians helping John Glenn getting into space.
Octavia Spencer, Janalle Monae, Taraji P Henson, Jim Parsons, Kirsten Dunst, Kevin Costner. Special features included. Pharell Williams and Hans Zimmer provide the music. More songs from the 60s to set the scene. Mary is hot. You might like The Butler, Birth Of A Nation, Selma, Mandela, 12 Years A Slave, Get Out, Black And White, Malcolm X, The Help, Roots. Great cast. It was pre segregation in America. Sexism and racism in the workplace. Irony being the white Americans were also immigrants. Another scene to highlight where Katherine had to find a toilet. Also the way they speak to her and stare is rude. Dorothy wanting a supervisor role but not getting it. Whoever came up with the Jim Crow laws is the dumbest fuck that ever existed. It is an alien world to modern America. In the TV show Timeless the crew visit this time and get help from Katherine. Read the book Dreams Of My Father by Barack Obama and the autobiographies by Maya Angelou. See Black History Month and Black Lives Matter. Jim Parsons plays a scientist on The Big Bang Theory. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LTI1RHG/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pleasetakealo-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B01LTI1RHG&linkId=c71b17aa83c5f710e81a504c0f4c1357