Engineer Role Model in the News

I was pleased to see Tyrone Harrison, a young engineering major, featured as a role model in Courtland Milloy’s column on July 30. And as a black man in college, Harrison is the type of role model we need to see in media more often.

I hope that the Post’s readership – as well as the rest of the citizens of our nation – do not have the view of young black men that Milloy fears: “based on images that tend to dominate the media -- athletes, entertainers, … and, all too often, criminals.” That’s certainly not what comes to mind when I think of black men. However, that may be because all the black men I have worked with had advanced degrees in engineering.