NASA has announced its new moon crew.

According to NASA, the main reason we're going back is to put the first black person and woman on the moon.

Victor Glover, the black man in question seems very uncomfortable talking about race, and I can imagine why. The man probably accomplishes more in a week than I do in a decade. He has reached the top of his field by striving for excellence his entire life, and now his bosses and the media want to reduce his accomplishments to his skin color.

The Apollo astronauts went to the moon as agents of humanity, not "the white race." I cannot imagine anything more cringe-worthy than my bosses telling the world I was chosen for the job because of my skin color or sex organs.

There is of course nothing wrong with a diverse crew for the next generation of space exploration. Astronaut selection has been diverse since Shuttle crew selection in 1978. The problem is the racist ideology of categorizing people by skin color rather than the content of their character. Yet our political climate is so corrupted by the racist and sexist spectre of collectivism that NASA leaders cannot sell a vision for human space exploration that relies on reaching new heights of human achievement instead of stale collectivist tropes.