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To: jmcenanly

Go ahead...I don’t think many technology corporations are looking for majors in Black History, or basket weaving.

Then, whites get the engineering jobs, and the blacks then yell, yep...”white privilege”.


8 posted on 12/14/2017 6:14:48 AM PST by FrankR (On the knees is not a good place to be...a man on the knees is only half a man.....)
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To: FrankR

“ldy”:

Since engineering involves building bridges & making airplanes-—

I suggest that you think about how smart such engineering people need to be next time you drive across ANY bridge & fly anywhere...

Employers want the best & the brightest.

Not the dumbest & the laziest.

IF you are charging for an education, the future employer has a right to expect that a ‘graduate’ GOT an education.


55 posted on 12/14/2017 7:29:20 AM PST by ridesthemiles (uen)
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To: FrankR

Go ahead...I don’t think many technology corporations are looking for majors in Black History, or basket weaving.


No fair comparison.

A degree in basket weaving gives you a skill, even if it is not the most marketable skill these days

A degree in Black History makes you unemployable

In all fairness, I knew a guy who had Master of Fine Arts degree in basket weaving - literally

He became the head of a carbon fiber specialty weaving operation . He was their first employee and he was the only guy they could find with a suitable background even close to what they were trying to do.

He started on the ground floor and built the operation into an impressive business unit

Of course, this was back in the days when a classical liberal arts degree gave you a well rounded, high quality generalist education with a rigorous course of study that taught you how to think independently and learn new things and adapt quickly.


64 posted on 12/14/2017 8:20:38 AM PST by rdcbn
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