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Claim
With the exception of MIT, there are black women graduating from every Top 10 in the country with degrees paid for by taxpayer money, and a level of knowledge / expertise roughly equal to a low-IQ high school sophomore who spent 20 minutes on Google.
Correction
MIT is not an exception: Black women have graduated from MIT (including earning bachelor’s degrees) for decades.
Full reasoning
The post’s sentence claims that MIT is an exception to “black women graduating” from top universities (i.e., that MIT does not have Black women graduates). That is directly contradicted by MIT’s own Black History Project materials.
- MIT’s Black History Project states that Shirley Ann Jackson ’68 “was one of the first black women to earn a Bachelor's degree” from MIT. That alone proves Black women have graduated from MIT.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica likewise states that Jackson “graduated from MIT with a bachelor’s degree in physics” (1968), reinforcing that MIT has Black women bachelor’s-degree graduates.
Because there is clear, primary-source evidence that Black women have graduated from MIT, the claim that MIT is an “exception” to Black women graduating is incorrect as written.
2 sources
- Interview: Shirley A. Jackson (2003) | MIT Black History
“Shirley Ann Jackson '68, PhD '73 ... was one of the first black women to earn a Bachelor's degree ... from MIT.”
- Shirley Ann Jackson | Biography, Activism, & Facts | Britannica
“That same year, Jackson graduated from MIT with a bachelor’s degree in physics.”