Related:We Must Draw More Blacks to Tech
Posted on 03/16/2012 11:50:05 AM PDT by lbryce
Racial segregation is no longer staring us down on the streets of Birmingham and Jackson. But has it positioned itself in a most unlikely locale: Silicon Valley.
Related:We Must Draw More Blacks to Tech
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Terell Jermaine Starr! What would a Swedish guy know about it?
flash, you missed the key factor in the indian move into the US tech sector...
indians hire indians.
oh, sorry... was i not supposed to mention that?
“Why don’t black people take math and programming classes?”
I have no objective data, but my observation over the course of my life is that culturally, the black family structure is a mess and the kids suffer academically and in many other ways.
The majority of the culture celebrates lawlessness and despises such things as school work. I think it’s long term fruit from being enslaved (families torn apart, men emasculated etc.) and more recently, welfare, which took away the apparent need for a wage earning father.
There are obviously, some solid black families and some black kids who go against the tide and succeed. But there needs to be a sea change.
They need to start blaming the Black “Cultural Leaders” who shove the notion down young Black male Youths Minds that “educating oneself is selling out to ther white man”....
Valley ping
You need to stop thinking like that.
For much of the 20th century, black folks had good communities, good schools, good churches and good families. They may have been separate -- and their institutions may not have been equal -- but the statistics are there that in terms of unemployment, marriage, childbirth,etc black people were doing just fine in modern America.
Then the Democrats started giving free stuff to anyone who could provide evidence of non-achievement. Rates of non-achievement have skyrocketed ever since.
The black culture of 2012 owes virtually nothing to the 1850's and owes a hell of a lot to the 1960's.
I’ll respond to this EVIL on the website itself later on. This crap is all part of the MSM’s agenda. Racism is everywhere is the current theme for the week/month since the “War on Women” tanked.
No, black people are their own worst enemies.
Dirty little secret: Americans are sick an blank-ing TIRED of this 24/7 racism BULL$H!!
Question: How do they categorize Indians (Hindu) whose skins are brown and who are all over Silicon Valley?
The very sad, non-PC but true fact of the matter is that too many black kids are falling way, way short of the academic achievement needed to qualify for these jobs.
Sure, we can institute Affirmative Action and give the jobs to them anyway. But then the software won’t work.
Average IQ is 100. Average African-American IQ is 85. That’s one Standard Deviation. Math is hard, it’s harder when you’re stupid. Sucks, don’t it? But it’s not racism, it’s reality. Facts are such mean little buggers.
I'd be surprised if people of european heritage make up any more than 60% of high tech employees in SV.
The black culture of 2012 owes virtually nothing to the 1850’s and owes a hell of a lot to the 1960’s.”
True, dat...
I have always found White, Indian, Asian, Jewish and (gasp) Iranian engineers to be very competent.
Other groups have many individuals who could excel as well.
I suspect that the reason they do not is cultural and poor parenting, mainly lack of a working father who strives to succeed and instill the same values into his children.
The breakup of the traditional family is a disaster!
The welfare state is a disaster. It exists chiefly to allow democrats to be elected. They have created a slave class who feels they must vote democrat or starve.
The education system is a disaster. It needs to cost far less and needs far fewer Marxist Profs teaching useless subjects.
Anyone who lives here knows this guy is obviously counting middle easterners and indians as white.”
Well, they are, except for any who might be Dravidian.
“Caucasian” covers far more than Europeans.
And 'black' (in the same scientific categorization as 'Caucasian') covers who?
The problem with the facial recognition system might not be due to racism, but rather to the problems with the low resolution of the camera. It would be easier to see features on a light background than a dark one.
It must be because of racism, because every Hollywood movie and TV show I’ve seen in the last 20 years features a black “computer genius.” Why aren’t they hiring those guys? Racism, I tell you. Hollywood wouldn’t lie.
“I think it’s long term fruit from being enslaved (families torn apart, men emasculated etc.)
You need to stop thinking like that. “
Well, I don’t know that I’m willing to quit thinking. . .I don’t offer it as an excuse.
When an entire race is enslaved for decades, I think it has some repercussions. How was the integrity of the black family, with a man providing and leading the way, maintained during slavery? They were bred, they were sold and separated, and the men were kept infantalized.
I agree they bounced back admirably well, but, they couldn’t seem to sustain it, and I think that is due to welfare and slavery repercussions. Couldn’t prove it; just an opinion.
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