ANSWERS: 11
  • are you thinking its racist?
  • The name of the award is "The Black Engineer" award or is the award named after a black engineer?
  • It's hard to say, because there aren't any awards for Best White Accountant and there is not a White History Month, but African-Americans have had to put up with a lot more hardship in the past. Nonetheless, I think we should move past designating awards based on race.
  • Well, I'm pretty sure that if there was a "white engineer awatd" it would be jumped all over - so yes! An award should be an award regardless of race.
  • At first I didn't really think it was rascist but the more I thought about it... it does seem rascist to me.
  • Yes I think it is discriminatory. The award should be for the top Engineer regardless of colour
  • My brother worked in the engine room of a destroyer and he said they were always referred to as the black gang on every US Navy ship maybe this is why they call the award the black engineer award!
  • Engineering personel were called the black gang when they use coal to fire the boilers. Then they were called snipes. Black engineer award is NOT on oall ships. It is wrong.
  • Isn't it more to do with engineers always being black (from the work they do) as opposed to skin colour? If not it is fairly wrong, but no one is that blatantly discrimanate.
  • The "black" refers to "the black gang", which is what the engineroom personnel were called way back in the coal-fired days. They were always covered in coal dust. There's nothing racial about it.
  • not sure, i dont know much about it

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