The students she trains who she believes are the best educated and talented are from Asia and India. Their level of knowledge is far above all the other students.
“We had a discussion recently in which she flat out stated she is deeply worried about the level of competence of the black residents.”
I am suspicious of anyone who is not an Anglo or Asian male (in any profession) because of these policies. The most basic problem is that they take a minority/female who could get into a state school on their own merits, and instead push them up a level to the next “layer” of schools (where they, like similarly qualified whites, have a very hard time - often dropping out). The minority/female who might adequately work well supervising five people is given responsibilty for ten instead, and often fails for the same reason a white would in the same position - it is beyond them. These policies are simply official statements of racial and gender inferiority by the government; when you deal with a white or Asian guy, you know they have to be good to still have the job they’re in. Many tokens I work with (more often white women than ethnic minorities) want a title & paycheck with little to no responsibilities; it makes them very expendable and impossible to take seriously (though they take themselves VERY seriously; doesn’t every exec come in at 9:30, take a long lunch, and leave at 3:30?).