Surrendering it to the likes of Black Lives Matter and the Donna Rileys of the world would mean the end of the United States as a country of individual liberty and its economic counterpart, capitalism
"Rigor [in engineering education] accomplishes dirty deeds... disciplining, demarcating boundaries, and demonstrating white male heterosexual privilege," says Donna Riley, head of engineering education at Purdue University. "Scientific knowledge itself is gendered, raced, and colonizing." (Engineering Studies, Dec, 2017)
To make any sense of this, one must visit the fever swamps of "white supremacy" scholarship. In the good old days, "white supremacy" referred to the ideology of groups like the Aryan Nation and the Ku Klux Klan. No more.