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But I doubt that those "role models" (side note- engineering role models? Are you serious?) identify themselves primarily as male and white. If you want to identify yourself first as a minority and feel bad about the lack of others of your group, go right ahead, but understand that you are now part of the problem. You reinforce the false barrier of race. I'm sorry there's no Empowered Minority Engineer muppet, but I also don't see why anyone would care.
Oh, and the overwhelming majority of graduate students here are non-white, and non-American. So by your logic, where I look around and see few of "my kind," I ought to form the Americans in Graduate Level Engineering group, and everyone should be OK with that. Right?
Since this is an open forum, feel free to tell me straight- why do these groups insist on not being treated differently on the one hand, then insist that they are different on the other. Explain to me how that is EVER going to bring society to a point where there are no such barriers.
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