Personal Narrative: My Nation's Guided Missile Program

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I don't know what's wrong with you whenever we talk you immediately angrily attack me. I was naivete to think as friends, we had each others best interest at heart only to learn this isn't the case, you have contempt for me.

Black elitist thinks acting like an ass and superior to others makes them intelligent, but they're not, which is the reason, when they're in charge goals are never achieved, without cheating, and when given fiduciary responsibilities the entities has money misappropriated or file for bankruptcy, look at Paine College problems and Laney's ratings, as examples but it doesn't stop there whenever it's a Black organization these problems exist.

You think you know me, but you don't. I had to leave Augusta after Laney, my goals far exceeded the imagination of Blacks here, with their crib mentality, always criticized my aspirations never a positive word of encouragement. After many years of being marginalized by Black teachers just weeks out of Laney in an all white environment I was given batteries of tests the results quickly identified me as a prodigy I was immediately accepted into our nation's Guided Missile program, among many others, that changed my life, I was successful. In my career field I had to compete against candidates nationwide the criteria were, education, technical expertise and managerial skills, my education was
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even you don't know. For Top Secret technologies the Government selects the best and brightest experts in those fields to head it's programs.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, civilian, selected to be in charge of the nation's Manhattan Project that created the Atomic Bomb, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Wernher von Braun, civilian, selected to be in charge of the nation's Missile Program that created the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled Americans to the Moon, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville,

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