1. Space is only for white men.

1.  Space is only for white men. Space exploration is founded upon racism, white supremacy, and sexism.

"What do I look like, living in Watts, in the projects, sitting in a living room that really doesn't have too much of anything, looking at the launching of a missile to orbit a man around space, and … I'll hear a police siren and … I'll go outside and I'll see him going down the street and I'll look away because it's no big thing, this happens every day, and then I can look down a little further and see kids playing around trash cans, because that's all they have … The reality of being poor is in you. And a space race has to be the last thing on your mind. You're too concerned … and the word is 'hustling' … you're too concerned with just trying to make enough to live.”

Professor Johnnie Scott 

"You know," said the professor, "there are no black astronauts."

"Of course not."

"Any Jewish astronauts?"

"I doubt it."

The black man grunted. They would not need to mention Mexicans or Puerto Ricans …

"Look," said the black professor," do they have any awareness of how the money they spent could have been used?”

Professor Johnnie Scott 

African-Americans didn't watch the launches. You had civil rights leaders who were actively protesting during the "ticker tape parades" for returning astronauts – they disrupted parades in Manhattan, for instance, to try to draw attention to poor housing conditions.

Neil M Maher

With a quick Internet search, it’s apparent that there are numerous space-related conventions and gatherings across the U.S. and Europe planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings. Here, then, are the names of these events and a survey of speakers and committee chairs: 

The 35th Space Symposium -Colorado Springs, CO

Speaker roster:  156 speakers 

21 are people of color  

That's 13.4% 

The Space Forum  -Luxembourg

2019 speakers comprise 18 white men, 1 white woman, and 1 man of color 

Previous speakers show 68 white men, 11 white women, and 4 people of color

SpaceCom - Houston, TX

Lists its advisory committee as 27 white men, 4 white women, 3 men of color, and 2 women of color

Space Tech - Long Beach, CA

Speakers for 2019 include 34 white men, 5 white women, 3 men of color, 2 women of color, and 1 African-American woman

International Space Development Conference - Arlington, VA

The National Space Society list features 13 white men and 3 white women

Starmus V - Zurich, Switzerland

“The fifth edition of Starmus is back to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the man’s First Step on the Moon.

Starmus V features top scientists, legendary astronauts and cutting-edge art, discussion panels, round tables, debates, amazing performances and concerts, and much more.” 

Starmus V lists a speaker roster of 42 white men, 12 white women, 2 men  of color, and 2 women of color.

Looking at these conventions, it would appear that Space Inc. doesn’t include any African-American men as invitees or guest speakers. Almost as if space was reserved for white people.  Almost as if human space travel was going to replicate institutional racism, white supremacy, and in-your-face tokenism into the stars and galaxies.

Space is only for white people! Specifically, white men, and even more, so white male billionaires. 

This fact carries all the hallmarks of white supremacy, racism,  sexism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, and speciesism. A patriarchal system crushing all of us under capitalism, police, and military dogma.  Old white men sitting around deciding future courses for their money, investments, brands, and heirs. 

Space colonization is an extension of Manifest Destiny, the so-called opening of the West and the accompanying “Indian problem,”  which became the blueprint for Nazi death camps and ethnic cleansing. This same thought pattern will lead to dreams of invading Mars. The first step toward the conquest of outer space was when these men surrendered to the US at the end of WWII. These scientists/engineers were Nazis. They wore SS uniforms! These men used slave labor and children’s labor in the construction of the V2 rockets. 

The Victory and Vengeance rockets were constructed in concentration camps, built by German communists, French resistance fighters, Polish Home Army POWs, Russian POWs and Czechs, who would be tortured and executed, but would still manage to sabotage these spaceships. Russian POWs would urinate on delicate electronics. The French resistance prisoners would replace working parts with known defective parts and leave screws loose during assembly. Hundreds were hung for this sabotage.

These spaceships were constructed by a self-proclaimed “master race” of white men who wanted to own the future of humanity. 

Men today of destiny and fortune--4 billionaires: Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk--hold the same dream of owning the stars.  

The same dream the Nazis had: to commodify the planets, moons, and asteroids, and become historical figures known for something more than their collective wealth. A wealth stolen from exploited workers and resources extracted from indigenous peoples’ land.

Their goal is the conquest of outer space, and thus, the conquest of the very future of humanity.

Don’t let them leave!