Just because she doesn't have a STEM degree doesn't diminish her accomplishments. Some people are incredibly gifted at liberal arts and culture, health and society types of disciplines.
Your high school math olympiad champ who completed calculus before even entering high school couldn't explain the complexities of the social issues in the same way that Dottie did neither can Dottie write a 10-page mathematical proof at 17-yrs old like top STEM gifted students.
So she explained the complexities of the social issues? By what? Copy and paste from a few Wikipedia pages don’t always make a good PhD dissertation.
Letsrun prejudice biased discriminatory racist folks can't even acknowledge what an incredible accomplishment it is to have a doctorate degree. Only 1.1% of the population have one and how many have done this at 17?
Doesn't matter to a racist, they will find any reason in their F'd up mind to disparage an incredible accomplishment by black people, especially a black female.