Thang Nguyen 555

Here is Bingham

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/09/11/rugby-star-9-11-hero-mark-bingham-leaves-lasting-legacy-20-years-after-united-flight-93-crash/

Here is Beamer

https://www.wsj.com/articles/flight-93-united-todd-beamer-9-11-september-eleventh-jihadist-terrorist-attack-11631223355?page=1

Local (SF) vs National/International coverage (WSJ).

Although the Twin Towers were built side by side, these two heroes who died of equal deaths and carried equal weights, drew unequal attention.

That’s all I am saying.

And that’s just in a span of twenty years.

Another 40, 50 years on. Perhaps one will be elevated into sainthood, the other remains a sinner (not in SF).

Unless we build in a mechanism, and point out unconscious bias. A recent study, aired on PBS Friday 9/18/21, points out just a 3 percent difference in giving more credits to men than women, resulting in 87 % difference in tilt promotion between the two groups.

The loss and cost of unconscious bias. How many friends we could have had. Great employees and potential managers we could have promoted and fully utilized skill set. Worse off, we have become “biased” ourselves, having enshrined with that unconsciously i.e. how the world operates (the IBM sales cloning).

They even teach The Homogenious Unit (HUP) principle to grow (segregated) churches (might as well saying it out loud: cloning the sheep).

All white-suburban mega churches, complete with sound systems, untuck shirts and Amy Grant projectors. Donate today. Get saved today (or at the least, get your Pastor-signed religious exemption certificate – to avoid vaccination).

Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence, the Rugby team, the leadership skill and bravery of Bingham-like.

Ignored, forgotten if not out right edited out – if not for the love of his mother, who became a mother-figure for the LGBT community. Societal unconscious bias. Our own. No one cares. Until it’s the plane you are on. Then you would want both Beamer and Bingham on it. To “appoint” them to rush the cockpit, while you stay in the cabin (at least, the flight attendants helped boil water as weapon).

God bless America, and All those who are in it, gay or straight, men or women, passengers or flight attendants. They voted, they acted, and they died. Bravely. Equal and symmetrical death. No difference, and very very democratizing yay or nay votes. Cream or sugar? Both.