And, at the risk of crossing subLemmy boundaries, here’s Mekka Okereke (@[email protected]) on that achievement, and Mastadon’s loss:
"And when she tried to join the Fediverse, she was greeted with a barrage of hate, sexism, racism, and anti-semitism that should have never been allowed to happen.
"So now no one on Fediverse gets to interact with her directly about her work on here. Our loss. 😢
“Which is why we’ll make it so that this type of terrible welcome is unlikely to happen again. Allowing it to happen to her was a choice. We will make better ones.”
#BlackMastodon
Ever hear the concept of the “house n-word”? They were a slave that was allowed to live in the house as a servant, who also got education such as reading and writing. Didn’t change the fact most slaves were living in what amounted to chicken coops for humans.
Tyson got to where he is on his own merits, but there can still be institutional discrimination that prevents other black people from doing what he did.
Another great example of this in science is the Nobel Prize. It is infamously sexist, even excluding people who such as Noether who have contributed physics insights comparable to Newton or Einstein.