Along with replies by ’ClumsyPilot and ’ruined, remember that Brown v. Board of Education was passed only in 1954 and 1954 is just yesterday. Also see this HN

Along with replies by ’ClumsyPilot and ’ruined, remember that Brown v. Board of Education was passed only in 1954 and 1954 is just yesterday. Also see this HN comment from a day ago on how much a black person had to fear even in 1980: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30061511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30061511 An excelelnt book regarding these is 'Simple Justice by Richard Kluger https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Justice-Education-Americas-Struggle/dp/1400030617 https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Justice-Education-Americas-Str... Another book focusing on computing is 'Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing by Jane Margolis https://www.amazon.com/Stuck-Shallow-End-Education-Computing/dp/0262514044 https://www.amazon.com/Stuck-Shallow-End-Education-Computing... There is a wealth of info regarding these things, see redlining for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining