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The women in the movie Hidden Figures were more like the people around me. You always had those people, exceptional people, around, people who were just brilliant, and they were black. Suddenly they turned us all into helpless victims. I don’t think creating that attitude is good, that sense of a permanent victim status, like we’re serfs or something. I don’t think it’s good now, and I think it’s counterfactual and ahistorical.
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