Betsy DeVos belongs in a sealed barrel, encased by concrete, and dropped in the Marianas Trench.

Ugh. This. Again.

OK. So, the facts:

Blacks are 13% of the population.
Blacks are 9% of CS grads.
Blacks are 4.5% of CS grads from elite schools.
Blacks are 6.1% of CS grads at Stanford.

And most tech companies hire 1-2% Black.

IT IS NOT A PIPELINE PROBLEM.

I’m not even mad at you, but these stats have been readily available…

Why should we tell someone to get into STEM if they’re not necessarily all that passionate about it only for them to end up frustrated by how white it is and how little these companies work to retain their talent once they’ve managed to hire them

Things said to me as a child: “You are a pretty bright kid, you should think about taking comp sci next semester as an elective, you might be good at it.” (I took comp sci and was good at it.) “You have pretty good verbal skills, you should take a foreign language, you might enjoy it.” (I took french, et je peux parle…

There’s also the self-fulfilling prophesy of not having a lot of Black people in tech. These firms tend to pull from the same very small number of predominately white schools and among the friends of their predominately white workforces. Most white people don’t even have a single white friend. Why should we tell…

Good point, and many of these huge tech companies do. But those really are “drop in the bucket” programs. Great for the kids that are born near the corporate headquarters of Google or Apple, but not so much for anywhere else.

Luv hearing your experience man! Mine was the same. I went into the theater spoiler-free and was *blown* the fuck away especially since Wesley was doing all the ass kicking like 98% him, no cgi bullshit or stunt doubles doing 3/4 his work (talking to you Scarlett Johansen).

Blade remains the only Marvel comic movie I really really love. Everything else seems like an ADHD wet dream for better or worse. I was blown away back in 97-98 when Blade came out in theaters and remember buying the DVD back when the Wherehouse was still in business. Must have watched Blade 100x by now and still…

Obvious answer: bring Blade into the Netflix-verse. Vampires >>> Ninjas any day of the week.

I like Blade II’s story and the effects were generally more consistent than the first film (I still can’t get over those two vampire hench-people blowing up like giant cartoon hemorrhoids in the first Blade), but there were far too many rock-scored montages and the conclusion descended into too many contrivances and…

Blade II is also guilty of under utilizing the great Donnie Yen.

N’Bushe Wright is great in Blade. How often do we ever get a dark-skinned black actor playing the female lead in one of these types of films?!?

Wright is decent in her role. But she’s nothing special.

i endorse this take. never got the hype behind blade 2.

This would make it the first and only time Goyer wrotea script for a good movie.

Nope! Blade one has better world building, pacing and pathos. Blade II ALjust tries to be “cooler”

This movie definitely had the right idea in starting with Blade already a full-formed hero, with a regular human as our identification figure. In the era when movies like this had to stand completely on their own, it would have taken way too much time to give a full origin for him.

I saw Blade in the theaters with some buddies, OPENING NIGHT, after a few drinks. We went in spoiler-free (almost pre-internet days), just saw the cool TV commercials.

Am i the only one that feel Blade is a better film on a whole than Blade II (which is admittedly more ambitious)?