Man, what a racist thing to say! The fact that they don’t see it is really astounding.
I just had two kids just graduate from Purdue, one with an astronautical engineeing degree and the other with a biomedical engineering degree. Both worked their asses off and didn’t get anything handed to them — in spite of their “whiteness”. My son is now a rocket designer at a leading aerospace firm, and my daughter just landed a job at one of the largest biomedical firms.
They EARNED it. It wasn’t handed to them!
My son got his Chem E from Purdue in 2015. Purdue has a rigorous academic Engineering program. He worked his butt off for his degree; two semesters of Organic Chemistry is no cake walk. And in his profession, the fluid in the pipe at the chemical plant doesn’t care about the race, gender religion, ethnicity or sexual preference of the person setting the parameters of what’s in that pipe. If the pressure, temperature and flow rate are not correct, the plant blows up and people die. It’s not being racist or bigoted, it’s just doing what it will do. There is a joke among Chemical Engineers; if you see the Chemical Engineer running out of the plant, you want to be in front of him.
My son’s section of commencement was most of the Engineering schools; Chemical, Electrical/Computer, Mechanical, Civil and Nuclear. There were less than 20 American blacks in Civil and Mechanical. None with degrees in Chemical, Electrical/Computer or Nuclear. Looking at the names in the program, there were some African blacks in those programs. Of course, the Electrical/Computer roster read like a Shanghai phone book.