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Good for him, and I'm not surprised, but why don't we congratulate everyone who publishes a math paper? Will we also have an article if a pretty woman publishe

• swsieber 12y ago
  No. We congratulate people who don't get caught up in their wealth and their source of it.
• neindanke 12y ago
  > I'm not surprised Good that you're not surprised. But there's a lot of people out there (and here in the valley) who subconsciously (or consciously) believe that if you're dark skinned with curly hair and athletic, then you're deficient in the intellectual arena, or worse, that you're a thug. > why don't we congratulate everyone who publishes a math paper? Because not everyone's story defeats a stereotype that is dangerous and damaging. I'm surprised that this has to be explained.
• RockyMcNuts 12y ago
  At the risk of stating the obvious: it's hard to excel at this level in two different skill sets that take concentrated effort over years to become proficient. And he wrote some interesting stuff from personal experience on a topic of current interest, NFL brain injuries.