If you could do well on your SATs, and wanted to be an engineer, then you would be accepted in engineering school.
If you had potential as a child, but that potential got wasted in a ghetto school where most of the students were hostile to learning, then that’s unfortunate.
Sure yeah right, a black guy in the 50s had sooooo much opportunity in the South...
A young WHITE engineer came down to discuss some issues we were having with AC fuel controls, controls that run the engine. He asked me... “what do they use in the stands, water?” i’m not making that up... water?? why in the HELL would you EVER have water in a fuel control>??