Really? Interesting. Must be geography. I know more black programmers than whites or any other skin tone.
Interesting. When I was first getting into the industry there were a few studies going around trying to answer the two big quandries: where are the blacks, and where are the women. The women one was actually the one people were more concerned with because there was a solid percentage of women graduating college with computer related degrees (30 or 40 I forget) and only about 1/10 of that percentage actually in the industry.
Blacks (and hispanics) was another question, there weren't a lot showing even the smallest interest in computers. Around that time was when they were throwing all these computers in the minority schools and finding out the kids just didn't care.
Maybe you're just in a heavy exception zone.
Anyway, I still think all Bill is doing is bribing the boycott away. Of course he is for the estate tax so who knows.