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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8651668" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>It sometimes strikes me that you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you recognize someone's race, well, you shouldn't focus on their race, you should focus on their accomplishments. But if you ignore their race, well, that's a problem as well. I was fortunate enough to meet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raye_Montague" target="_blank">Raye Montague</a> when I was working at a historical archive many years ago and she was being interviwed as part of an oral history project. I chatted with Montague, an African American, and learned was a Naval engineer and was a pioneer in the use of computers to design ships. She was one of designers of the Eisenhower class carrier my sister served on. I commented that women were underrepresented in engineering today, and it seemed quite an accomplish for a black woman to have such a role back in the earlyt 70s. I didn't feel the least bit embarrassed or wrong about noting the extra bit of difficulty she must have encountered (including not being accepted into engineering schools because of the color of her skin). She mentioned that she got hired once just on the strength of her resume, and her new coworkers were surprised when a black woman showed up. Montague joked that they must have thought she was a Frenchman or something. </p><p></p><p>People and the situations we get into are complicated, but I think most of us don't have an issue recognition their identity or the challenges they faced because of it. Did Lackey make it all about race? No. Not from anything I've seen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 8651668, member: 4534"] It sometimes strikes me that you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you recognize someone's race, well, you shouldn't focus on their race, you should focus on their accomplishments. But if you ignore their race, well, that's a problem as well. I was fortunate enough to meet [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raye_Montague']Raye Montague[/URL] when I was working at a historical archive many years ago and she was being interviwed as part of an oral history project. I chatted with Montague, an African American, and learned was a Naval engineer and was a pioneer in the use of computers to design ships. She was one of designers of the Eisenhower class carrier my sister served on. I commented that women were underrepresented in engineering today, and it seemed quite an accomplish for a black woman to have such a role back in the earlyt 70s. I didn't feel the least bit embarrassed or wrong about noting the extra bit of difficulty she must have encountered (including not being accepted into engineering schools because of the color of her skin). She mentioned that she got hired once just on the strength of her resume, and her new coworkers were surprised when a black woman showed up. Montague joked that they must have thought she was a Frenchman or something. People and the situations we get into are complicated, but I think most of us don't have an issue recognition their identity or the challenges they faced because of it. Did Lackey make it all about race? No. Not from anything I've seen. [/QUOTE]
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