[cderwin]

The commenter is quite clear that he or she is calling into question the competency of the Ghanaian space program because "its not even a new design, they literally just used the cubesat platform and launched it from United States."

Similarly, the connection between calling this article the space-race equivalent of "affirmative action" and the alleged racism of the author of the comment is unclear.

If you actually believe the author of the comment is a racist, you should make your case. The author's racism doesn't seem "blatant" to me, and presumably wouldn't to most of the hn community.

[forapurpose]

> presumably wouldn't to most of the hn community

I wouldn't try to speak for the rest of the community.

Using the term "affirmative action" in regard to an African nation has clear implications.

[cderwin]

Namely that people of color benefit from it; that itself does not have racist implications.

You are of course correct that I should not have presumed the community agrees with me -- my apologies for making that assumption.