Meet the Youngest African-American Engineer in America

Brittney Exline is special, very special. She’s the Michael Jordan of intellectuals, and getting the attention that she deserves. Brittney has been named, according to Ebony.com and other sources, to be the young black engineer in the entire United States. At 19 years old, the University of Pennsylvania grad has achieved more than most will achieve in their lifetime.

In addition to being an extraordinary engineer, Brittney also speaks five languages. She graduated with minors in five different fields, including Math, Psychology and Classical Studies. She has worked on Wall Street and also participated in numerous beauty pageants.

As a college professor who’s seen a few young people with this kind of ability, there are a few things you should know. Children like Brittney are not created by accident. They are products of great parenting and tremendous guidance by the people who care enough to make the necessary investment. Brittney’s parents, Chyrese and Christopher Exline, deserve as much credit as Brittney herself, because they shaped her reality to be one where their daughter was firmly convinced that anything is possible if you simply put your mind to it.

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The second secret about women like Brittney is that there are young people all around us with just as much capacity for greatness. In too many cases, the child’s greatness is killed off like some kind of virus long before it ever has a chance to develop. Their potential can also be misguided into some other set of meaningless activities, like running out to the club or dribbling basketballs for a stadium full of white peoople. Sometimes, the child’s greatness is not activated because the carrier has been trained to sit hypnotized on the couch watching BET for 12 hours a day. Most of the Brittney Exlines of the black community are physically, spiritually, intellectually and socially aborted before they even get a chance to be great.