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  1. My favorite snippet of #McCoy-#Spock banter.

    #Scotty: Captain, thank heaven.
    Mr. Spock: Mr. Scott, there was no deity involved. It was my cross-circuiting to B that recovered them.
    Dr. McCoy: Well, then, thank pitchforks and pointed ears! As long as it worked, Jim.

    #StarTrek

  2. For #BlackHistoryMonth, #TechHub has changed our Info-Page Banner to include #ElijahMcCoy.

    This isn't an amazing image, just something I threw together for @nicdex to put up, because I felt that putting up Elijah #McCoy's picture reflects who we are, what we stand for, and our thoughts on the world today.

    Elijah McCoy's parents escaped from #enslavement in the #US in the early-1800s, gaining asylum in #Canada, and he was born in #Ontario in 1843. Being what we would now consider a "gifted" child, his parents saved money to send him to Scotland to study #engineering when he was 15.

    He returned to the US after the Civil War, but could not find work as an engineer due to #racism and #segregation practices: anti-#discrimination programs like #DEI and the #EEOC, had not been established, so opportunities for even the most qualified #black men were scarce, passed up for even less qualified #white men.

    (Continued)

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