When I did taxes, I had a black woman co-worker with a masters in Accounting. Don’t know if she was a good accountant, but she was great at taxes, a wonderful person, a Christian married to a Christian black man raising their 3 kids - a joy to be around and work with. Cared about others, polite, soft-spoken, always willing to help - a “unicorn” regardless of skin color!
But very few people with advanced degrees have impressed me outside of engineering. And the engineers I worked with were about 90% white men. Some Asians. Can’t recall any blacks.
I have worked with some very friendly and pleasant black folks.
But—when they made errors, small or large, I was always afraid to call them out on it—not worth my paycheck.
That is the world they lived in...