When I read the link, "Bright future for black astronauts", I was like, black man don't wanna go into space, black man wanna get a decent job and a house first. I mean, talking as if hundreds and thousands of space opportunities were going to be opened up for black people to take advantage of is ludicrous.

And anyway, at the risk of being Carlinesque, I will say that it seems that only people who are openly white but just happen to be black make it to the top in the U.S.A. I believe that is the case why black people tend to associate more with O.J. Simpson, Jordan and James Brown rather than with Tiger Woods. We saw this episode where Chris Rock goes into Harlem and asks around if people know Tiger Woods, and people are like, Tiger who?

Maybe it is wrong to give poor people living in ghettoes heroes like Tiger Woods or Michael Robinson whom they cannot even begin to emulate. The reason why Pele and Rivaldo are heroes for millions of ghetto kids is because they took something as simple and cheap as a football and made it their destiny. Pele played with rags, Rivaldo played barefoot. These children emulate these heroes. Can they emulate Tiger Woods or Michael Anderson when their father knows he cannot afford to send them to a good high school even?

But Anderson's sister Joanne made a point that registered with me.
"The United States of America has many, many problems -- racism is one of them," she said, "but only in America could he have achieved what he did achieve."