The Engineering department I managed always quite generously employed students from Florida A&M at what I, who paid for it, thought was a ridiculously high rate considering how little they could contribute. Then one of them sued the company for racial discrimination. A Russian manager had asked “What for you make me do this monkey’s work?” (By this he meant review drawings, a job we had one of the black interns doing.) For an accusation like this you go to an arbitrator, in this case a black, female judge who had NEVER found in favor of a company before. At the hearing the Russian engineer walked in with a stack of translated Russian authors with yellow sticky notes protruding. He told the judge. “I was raised in Russia. I never saw black person. We didn’t even have pictures of black people. Monkey’s work is Russian saying.” He then picked up each book, named the author and flipped to each page he’d marked reading the sentence with the phrase. When he got to the third book on the huge stack, she stopped him. We won. After that everyone walked on eggs around this student.
Here’s the point. We never hired another student from FAMU. The ability to use the race card creates a dirth of jobs for other, honest blacks.
Black colleges are for subpar students.
Every intelligent black I have known went to “normal” college.