DGS49
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What do Boston’s college students worry about today? And what gives them hope? - The Boston Globe
We spoke to dozens of students from across Greater Boston, to learn about the anxiety of affording life after school, competing with AI, making a difference with climate change, and more.

If you scroll down to essay #2, you will read the thoughts of college POC's, who are worried about their careers being harmed by racism. They might not get the first choice of employment, might not be promoted, or might be installed as a "token," might not even be able to find a suitable job, all as a result of systemic racism.
Without getting into a lot of detail, it's a characteristic of successful people that they are focused on the future with optimism; less successful people are focused on the past with pessimism and fatalistic thoughts. Any legitimate, competent* POC college student who is thinking that their career will suffer due to their race/ethnicity/gender is an idiot. Seriously.
Not teaching them, emphatically, that the "world is their oyster," is a crime. All this talk about systemic and endemic racism and reparations is doing those people a huge disservice. Employers who are welcoming of women and POC's are well known, as are those with a reputation for being otherwise. Literally THOUSANDS of public sector employers, NGO's, non-profits, and so on have had the Welcome Mat out for decades for this sort of applicant. There is no reason on God's green earth why a competent POC college grad cannot get a very fine job right out of college. The fact that they do not appear to be aware of what awaits them - assuming they are not stupid - is a tragedy.
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* A legitimate, competent college grad is someone who has taken a non-retard major (e.g., Ethnic Studies), and has a GPA that is not an embarrassment.