Alternatives

Since today is Sunday, I thought I would do a little public service announcement. A little light reading if you will. Us kneegroes don't as a matter of course, blow our own horn, unless it has to do with sports or entertainment. Well there's a lot more to us as a people other than running with a ball or dribbling a ball or making white people laugh or dying in front of a camera at the movies There are highly educated black people in this country and the world who just go about their jobs and keep a low profile. Whether or not the low profile thing is by choice or that the white MSM refuses to showcase them is a post for another time. Lord knows we need to let our young people know that there are alternatives to poverty, gangs, dancing and rapping.

Anyway. First up is Professor Aaron S. Evans. That's him on your left.

Aaron S. Evans

born: June 1968, place: Texas

pre-doctorate institution: B. Sc. (Physics & Astronomy) University of Michigan (1990); M. S. (Astronomy) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii (1993)

doctorate institution: Ph. D. (Astronomy) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii (1996)

area: Astronomy

current employment: Asst. Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook

Damn. Impressive, yes?

I chose a black man to start with for the simple reason that black men in the general population seem to be at a crossroads. Almost 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers. Those mothers are far more likely than married mothers to be poor, even after a post-welfare-reform decline in child poverty. They are also more likely to pass that poverty on to their children. It's pretty hard to ignore facts like these.

We need to let our young people know that there are indeed alternatives to sports and entertainment. We need more people like Professor Evans. We need to let them know that they can be whatever they want to be and that we, as adults have their backs. We need to let them know that there is no such thing as "acting white". Knowledge is colorblind and will not be denied, no matter who you are. Smart people will always find a way, that is, unless they spend the better portion of their lives being beaten down and told that they ain't shit or being called animals. That's a shout-out to the Big Giant Heads. You know who you are.

Here's some more stuff on Professor Evans.

My current research primarily deals with observations of colliding galaxies and their associated phenomena (starbursts and active galactic nuclei [AGN]). The study of these galaxies requires a multi-wavelength approach, which to date has included optical to mid-infrared imaging, as well as near-infrared and (sub)millimeter spectroscopy. The observing facilities used to carry out these programs are the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii (UH 2.2m, UKIRT, JCMT, Keck), the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Owens Valley Millimeter Arrayin California, the Steward Observatory 12m telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona, and the IRAM 30m telescope in Spain.

BAM!!!!!! Take THAT bitches!

Note: Professor Evans. If you, by chance happen upon this site, please don't sue me. I'm just a poor black fool.