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"In 2013, only 1 percent of the California high school students who took the Advanced Placement were Latino or African American." How does that reconcile with:

"In 2013, only 1 percent of the California high school students who took the Advanced Placement were Latino or African American." How does that reconcile with: "How can you have a culture that talks about its meritocracy [Silicon Valley], but when you press them, you see that they're 70 percent white," How is it Silicon Valley's fault when you can see these racial disparities as early as high school? "We have to tell young people that here is this pathway where you can make $90,000 to $111,000 and the cops aren't going to come knocking on the door. You can keep the money. You don't have to win ‘America's Got Talent,'." Jones said. "And it's right there under the noses of people living in Northern California." Want to find out how to make $90k working from home!? Signup for my $99 hackathon today! Space is limited!

smtddr 13y ago
I think the mindset here is that there are Latinos & African Americans who have the talent but not opportunity; or for some reason aren't attending hackathons outside of Oakland. Part of it is rarely seeing a person of color in a computer engineering role. >>"They think they can become president but they don't think they can get a job at a computer company," he said. "That's because they've actually seen an African American become president. They haven't seen an African American at a computer company." Not to single out Ycombinator, but just go to http://ycombinator.com/ http://ycombinator.com/ and let the images do their auto-transitioning. I'm only pointing to YC because it's the handly link at the moment. Well, and this too - http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024388/slideshow-the-tech-industry-loves-white-people-hands http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024388/slideshow-the-tech-indus... Now, I know I'm about to get the HN vulcan team to tear me & that quote to pieces. Let me preempt them by saying that seeing other Latinos/African-Americans in a role greatly helps enforce the concept that you, if you're of one of those ethnicities, are capable of reaching that role too. Please let's not get pedantic and try to say this isn't the case. It very much is. That's why the efforts to bring women and minorities to tech exists. Also, I won't be debating[1]. I'm just saying this one comment and I'm ---out--->. 1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7100307 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7100307 EDIT: And you're right, charging $99 is crazy. I can understand charging a "token fee" to try and filter for serious people but $99 is way too high. More like $10. Maybe $20 at the max considering the average income of people in the ethnics groups targeted.
- Crake 13y ago
  >Part of it is rarely seeing a person of color in a computer engineering role. It's sad that we live in an age where it's acceptable to avoid a career field because you don't want to be around people of a different skin color.
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codygman 13y ago
I agree that charging $99 undermines their goals greatly :/

smtddr 13y ago

I think the mindset here is that there are Latinos & African Americans who have the talent but not opportunity; or for some reason aren't attending hackathons outside of Oakland. Part of it is rarely seeing a person of color in a computer engineering role. >>"They think they can become president but they don't think they can get a job at a computer company," he said. "That's because they've actually seen an African American become president. They haven't seen an African American at a computer company." Not to single out Ycombinator, but just go to http://ycombinator.com/ http://ycombinator.com/ and let the images do their auto-transitioning. I'm only pointing to YC because it's the handly link at the moment. Well, and this too - http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024388/slideshow-the-tech-industry-loves-white-people-hands http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024388/slideshow-the-tech-indus... Now, I know I'm about to get the HN vulcan team to tear me & that quote to pieces. Let me preempt them by saying that seeing other Latinos/African-Americans in a role greatly helps enforce the concept that you, if you're of one of those ethnicities, are capable of reaching that role too. Please let's not get pedantic and try to say this isn't the case. It very much is. That's why the efforts to bring women and minorities to tech exists. Also, I won't be debating[1]. I'm just saying this one comment and I'm ---out--->. 1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7100307 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7100307 EDIT: And you're right, charging $99 is crazy. I can understand charging a "token fee" to try and filter for serious people but $99 is way too high. More like $10. Maybe $20 at the max considering the average income of people in the ethnics groups targeted.

Crake 13y ago
>Part of it is rarely seeing a person of color in a computer engineering role. It's sad that we live in an age where it's acceptable to avoid a career field because you don't want to be around people of a different skin color.
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codygman 13y ago

I agree that charging $99 undermines their goals greatly :/