When you’re trying to land a space probe on a moon of Saturn,you want the best engineers and scientists regardless of color. Those are billion dollar missions
Recently, Cal Tech head hunted a promising student. One of those super bright youngsters destined for great things, who happened to be black.
Cal Tech wined and dined him, offering all sorts of goodies. The young man turned down the offer and went somewhere else. His choice. In parting, though, he wrote a letter to the deans of the school telling them why he chose not to go there, saying there weren’t enough of ‘his own kind’ attending the school.
This seems to have had a profound effect on the deans, who have prompted some radical changes to the school’s admissions process. Now they are going to bring in more blacks, regardless of their qualifications, jus to have ‘friends’ available for the smart students they head hunt.