White guilt. He is pretty good at what he does but he's only super famous because he's black.  I am a physicist too and the lengths people go to in order to promote women and minorities are just silly. To be fair, there are still a lot of sexist, racist old white guys who want to keep it a club for sexist, racist old white guys,  but their numbers are dwindling fast and they do not have anywhere near as much influence as people think.