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Why so Few Black People
in Silicon Valley?
Metro ^
| July 24, 2013
| Christiana Cobb
Posted on 07/31/2013 11:39:36 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Because they prefer the East Bay, particularly beautiful Oakland?
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:43:40 AM PDT
by
Hotlanta Mike
("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
To: nickcarraway
Guess they’d better start shippin’ ‘em in, whether they want to go or not.
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:45:38 AM PDT
by
albie
(re)
To: nickcarraway
That would be “actin’ white” to be all learnin’ and sh*t.
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:46:35 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
To: nickcarraway
Because they can commute from more comfortable climes of the ‘hoods of Vallejo.
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:46:39 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
To: nickcarraway
What percentage of blacks are electrical or software engineers?
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:46:48 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:46:57 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
To: Hotlanta Mike
And Richmond, They were pushed out from East Palo Alto by liberals.
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:47:27 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: nickcarraway
“Why so Few Black People in Silicon Valley?”
...because silicon is white? jk
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:48:15 AM PDT
by
ThomasMore
(Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
To: nickcarraway
Part of it might be that tech jobs require math ability, and the
average SAT math score is 536 for whites, 595 for Asians, and 428 for blacks.
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:48:24 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: nickcarraway
Education? I dunno, just guessing.
To: nickcarraway
Africans believe in the value of an education. African-Americans, less so.
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:49:11 AM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: Hotlanta Mike
Really not that hard to figure out.
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:49:42 AM PDT
by
TheThirdRuffian
(RINOS like Romney, McCain, Dole are sure losers. No more!)
To: nickcarraway
“How do you break the cycle? I don’t know.”
++++++++++++++++
Uh, how about not dropping out of high school at alarming rates? That’d be a good start.
To: nickcarraway
I don’t know what “Metro” is — but it needs to get over its obsession with skin color.
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:52:43 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: nickcarraway
Build it... and they'll come...
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:53:49 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
Because silicon is racist! The Silicon Valley is a gated community, and I’ll bet it has “Stand Your Ground.”
Mark
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:53:56 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: nickcarraway
Ebonics++ is not a programming language?
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posted on
07/31/2013 11:54:11 AM PDT
by
aquila48
To: Hotlanta Mike
Because the education that is valued by Silicon Valley has been disparaged by the dominant form of American black culture since LBJ?
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