Hidden Figure

After weeks of attempting to see it, we finally made it. We had wanted to see the movie for ages but because of the hectic lives of a college student slash journalist and a library tech slash future teacher, we were slammed with our realities.

However, today was the day. It was our time to escape the realities and venture into a world of empowerment. 

We went into the theater not knowing how Hidden Figures would make us react but we hoped we would enjoy some witty statements from the three NASA genesis.

Throughout the film we laughed, we groaned and we sat there contemplating the astonishing difference between American civilization in the sixties and American civilization now.

There was one particular sequence in the story that I found at first unfortunate but happy with the resolution.

Katherine Johnson, an amazing mathematician, was selected to work on the task force in charge of sending the first man to the moon.

As the only African American there, for the first time, there were no "colored" bathrooms. Therefore, she had to walk across the NASA campus to use the restroom. She wasted forty minutes everyday.

One day her boss noticed and dumbfounded he decided to rid NASA of separate bathrooms because and I quote:

"Here at NASA everyone pees the same color."

With an uproar of laughter, the entire audience found this both hilarious and powerful.