Larry Miller (Red)

I just read the forward and the first chapter and while you'll get no argument from me about marginalization or disenfranchisement and the convoluted and very real consequences of these things, for me they simply exacerbate the already low numbers of women and people of color not only in these fields, but everywhere. That said, what are we interested in as a society? Ratchet twerking!? What do we value? I hope it's not what I see on the television. So the big question I anticipate the answer to is how do we get people who do not have a proclivity for the sciences, to the sciences. Then there is our new economy of the side hustle; a symptom of serfdom. Hundreds killing each other in our cities, every day over scraps. The big goal is to create a common sentiment among our people, so they chose on their own to become something bigger, better. And the question arising out of that, is that isn't it the parents responsibility to direct and encourage their children into a chosen field?Things to cogitate about... So after I read it, I'll change my star rating. And for the nay sayers, I enjoy getting out of my lane and looking at old problems in a different way-that-is how stuff gets done. To address the language choice: white, black, red....it will not matter what made up new word you invent for "white" it will still represent that color and all the vitriolic polemic ideas and thought. The Baltimore City police department went through this very problem 3-4 decades ago. The community became tired of hearing, then:negro or black male. So they shot around: No.1 male, No.2 male, Young African Male... Which became truncated to: YAM. That didn't go over at all.in the end they created a problem, had to find solutions to it that created other problems. And yet, no matter the word chosen to serve as a hieroglyph it ALWAYS came back to black male and the unwanted behavior that the icon came to represent. I don't have any answers, either, but this book isn't it