State of Tuesday: HISTORIC FIRST BLACKS

Victor Glover reached for the Moon. The press reached for the race card.

Geoffrey Ingersoll

May 05, 2026

Left: (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

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We’re going to dedicate Tuesday to my favorite subject.

HISTORIC FIRST BLACKS

It would have been a good week for historic first blacks, if they’d have just let Victor Glover do the talking.

Glover just piloted the first orbit of the Moon for NASA since 1953. It’s an incredible achievement … with an asterisk: Glover is black. He also had with him a Canadian and a woman, two other firsts for NASA, but Glover’s blackness is unignorable in an ignorant press.

A young girl asked him recently during a press conference, “How does it feel to be the first person of color to fly around the Moon?”

You can forgive the young lass. She’s innocent. Adults almost certainly polluted her. It’s a waste of a question. How does it feel? I would imagine almost exactly like it feels for a white man. So mind-bogglingly, butt-clenchingly terrifying that only a special breed of human being can stomach it. Neil Armstrong. Alan Shepherd. Buzz Aldrin. Victor Glover. I’d guess they all felt nearly identical levels of suppressed panic.

“Amaya, thank you for the question,” Glover began. “I will tell you one of the things about swinging for the fence and hitting a home run when the game is on the line, if you think about that, that can add pressure and make you not go up there and play your best game.

I focused a lot on working with this team and trying to be a good teammate, be a good teammate to them and receive from them their good teamwork. And I think one of the reasons we were successful is we spent a lot of time thinking about us and not me individually.

So if I could give a good visual, I would say I spent a lot of time thinking about this patch,” he gestured to the NASA patch, “and this patch,” then to the American flag, “and not this patch,” he finally gestured to his nametag.

I salute you, Victor, you are a class act and an example for all Americans. It was the first time he addressed race directly since April 3, almost exactly a month earlier. It would have been a high note for HFBs if not for one KBJ.

Historic First Black Woman SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asserted herself in a situation just days later that was itself historic on many levels. First, SCOTUS ruled April 29 in the Louisiana v. Callais case that House seats could not be drawn on the basis of race. The ruling set the state up to redraw maps to adhere to the Constitution prior to the midterms.

All of this is normal.

The court’s liberals, Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor, dissented. (What’s a liberal for historically if not for racial segregation, amirite?!)

The plaintiff in the case, Callais, petitioned the court to issue the judgement forthwith, rather than abide by the standard 32-day waiting period. This period exists so losing parties have time to form an appeal. The defense not only chose not to oppose the request, but previously indicated no intent to even file an appeal.

SCOTUS granted the procedural request and, in a move that might just be literally historic, Jackson actually wrote a dissent to the routine procedural approval.

To talk you in, procedural matters are almost always issued unsigned without any written opinions or dissents. The step itself is extraordinary, but then you read the content (and wow! It’s a scorcher).

Jackson accuses the court of “throwing” the state into “chaos,” of “unshackling” itself from usual “constraints.”

“The Court unshackles itself from both constraints [Rucho and Purcell principles] today and dives into the fray. And just like that, those principles give way to power. Because this abandon is unwarranted and unwise, respectfully, I dissent.”

Respectfully? In this course of action, she ironically found herself in stark minority. Her liberal cohorts opted not to sign on. She went it alone, and alone she took what came next.

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Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch issued a rebuttal, with Alito writing:

“The dissent in this suit levels charges that cannot go unanswered.”

“The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional.” (With a footnote: “That constitutional question was argued and conferenced nearly seven months ago.”)

“Instead, the dissent offers two reasons for its proposed course of action. One is trivial at best, and the other is baseless and insulting.”

On the “trivial” 32-day rule argument: Alito notes the rule’s main purpose is to allow time for a rehearing petition, which the opposing side hasn’t signaled they’ll file, and that early voting deadlines have already passed with the general election only six months away.

He then flipped the “appearance of partiality” charge: “But the dissent does not explain why its insistence on unthinking compliance with Rule 45.3’s default rule does not create the appearance of partiality (by running out the clock) on behalf of those who may find it politically advantageous to have the election occur under the unconstitutional map.”

Then he took on her most aggressive rhetoric in proportion: “The dissent goes on to claim that our decision represents an unprincipled use of power. ... That is a groundless and utterly irresponsible charge.”

“What principle has the Court violated? The principle that Rule 45.3’s 32-day default period should never be shortened even when there is good reason to do so? The principle that we should never take any action that might unjustifiably be criticized as partisan?”

The closing stroke: “The dissent accuses the Court of ‘unshackl[ing]’ itself from ‘constraints.’ ... It is the dissent’s rhetoric that lacks restraint.”

SHEESH

The barbs are liable to be the talk of the town this morning.

Sitting atop this pie of abnormality from the court is that it’s unusually rare in modern times for SCOTUS writing to appear so … personal and direct. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was famously very close friends with Antonin Scalia. God rest both their souls, they’re probably turning in their graves right now. While SCOTUS disagreements have taken a flourish from time to time, they almost never blossom into direct attacks.

I wish I had a moment to take in the sheer audacious effect and corrosiveness ascending Gay Race Communism has had on our institutions, but then my social media was flooded with images from the annual parade of Uber Elite Dipshits Dressed In Ridiculous Clothing at the Met Gala.

I should bring this hulk to a close. We’re going long now.

Notes on the Met Gala:

They viciously protected its borders. PETA, the animal rights organization, showed up as a nearly nude woman. Were those pasties made without harming animals? Travis Kelce has officially transitioned from the NFL’s most prolific tight end to a gay transgender peacock.

I gave you a pass on the Pfizer commercials, but now you’re dead to me, Travis.

(Editor’s Note: The goth peacock cosplayer is English singer Sam Smith, not Travis Kelce)

But the belle of the ball was the final boss of Historic First Blacks.

Ladies and gents, I give you: “Aariana” Rose Philip, a gay transgender black quadriplegic gay disabled black gay misshapen man in a dress on a robotic wheelchair.

Here’s another image of this dude for good measure.

That last one is from a high-profile interview he did in which he talked about being good at scholastics in school but then found his calling when he saw a tranny on TV. No, I’m not shitting you, complete with panty flashes for the camera.

This should be the last first black we ever have to hear about; a runway supermodel who can’t walk and isn’t a woman and probably would have been a pretty good scientist if Gay Race Culture didn’t pollute his brain.

We aren’t allowed to pause to question the outcome, however. That would be bigoted.

The last time Victor Glover addressed race in a question was the last time I saw his facade crack. Abnormal for high-stress pilots. I know a B2 pilot. It’s impossible to read the guy.

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But Glover let out an infinitesimal sigh when he took the mic. It was almost imperceptible. I’ve done thousands of interviews though and I caught it.

“It is a big question and I want to highlight one facet of this is ‘the tension’ I call it,” he said. “I live in this dichotomy between the happiness that a young woman can look at Christina,” he gestured toward his female teammate, “and just physicalize her passion or her interest or even if it isn’t something she wants to do, she can just go ‘girl power’ and that’s awesome, and that young brown boys and girls can look at me and go, ‘hey, he looks like me and he’s doing what?’

And that’s great, I love that, but I also hope we are pushing the other direction that one day we don’t have to talk about these firsts.

“That one day this is just,” his composure broke again, astoundingly, “listen to this! … that this is the HUMAN history. It’s about human history. It’s the story of humanity. Not black history not women’s history, but that it becomes HUMAN HISTORY.”

That was the last time, by my measure, Glover directly addressed race in a statement.

I bet he’s getting tired of it.

I look at the lost potential of Mr. Philip, contorted into lingerie and displayed for all to see, and I see lost human history. I look at hyperracial partisans literally fighting in the highest court to keep us divided by race, and I see lost human history.

I look at Glover, and I see it restored.

I wish I could say he’ll be our last first, but something tells me other firsts will want to spoil the party.

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