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Once the airport worker who borrowed a plane to do some loops was identified, it was reported that he communicated with the airport control tower that he couldn’t be promoted because he was white.
And so race realism reared its head again, reminding white people of the sickening obstacles we face when trying to advance in the world that wants us out of the way.
White nationalists are paying tribute to Richard Russell on Twitter tonight. We needed a martyr and now we have one. We needed a hero and now we have one.
The tributes I’m seeing are beautiful and heartfelt. In the future, once we have secured our existence, Sky KIng, as he’s being called, deserves a statue memorializing him. We should never forget his sacrifice.
I’ll assemble what I have from Twitter and embed the tributes after this story on the life of the man who wanted to escape “the surly bonds of earth.”
First, the poem:
High Flight
John Gillespie Magee, Jr
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of –Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air…
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
“I’ve got a lot of people that care about me. It’s going to disappoint them to hear that I did this.”










