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as a self respecting black person u rly reach a point in ur political awareness journey where u lose hope in POC solidarity cuz u now cant help but notice 24/7 how inescapable antiblack racism is in every corner of society…and true solidarity is so rare it’s actually depressing

I interview dozens/hundreds of new grads, nearly every day of the year. These are people with a well-formatted resume and a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from well-regarded US universities and a GPA above 3.6. The majority cannot engineer, cannot function independently, cannot answer basic technical questions. We have watered down standards and inflated grades to the point that a bright, enthusiastic student spending four years in school sends almost no signal at all. What does? Hard evidence of actually building stuff. There is no substitute for actually doing the thing.

clicking “I prefer not to say” on the race part of job applications like my name isn’t ethnic as fuck