Rover on Mars, Negroes in space and ‘Whitey on the Moon’ (videos)

As NASA’s rover Curiosity blazes new trails on Mars, POCHO recognizes the space agency’s racial advances since the early days, ’57 or ’58.  It was a different time. (NSFW language.)

And it was a different time in the 1970s when poet Gil Scott-Heron recorded his rap/poem Whitey On the Moon as well. Or not so much:

Tagged as: black astronauts, curiosity, exploration, gil scott-heron, history, jose jimenez, jpl, mars, nasa, nassa, negroes, race, racism, rover, space