The entitlement is thinking you have the right to steal something just because you MAY decide to pay for it later.

Because someone has already paid for it and you have limited access to it.

In what other case do you get to own and enjoy a thing and *then* decide whether or not you want to pay for the labor that went into making that thing?

He’s not even that light-skint! That nigga brown!

I went to another HBCU (Spelman) and I feel the same way. I appreciate my education even more now that I live in the white world, because I do firmly believe that HBCUs do put stuff in place in order to prepare black students to really shine - no pajamas to class, no do-rags or slippers, no cutting corners in the…

It’s not meant to be the thing that gets you hired. It’s meant to be the thing that gets you interested in CS so you can explore and maybe take some classes.

We should definitely be targeting younger age groups, but at least in the U.S. interests and future careers aren’t even close to “locked” by high school, and there are lots of opportunities to change hearts and minds and get kids interested in different kinds of careers.

Clear rubrics don’t really help temper bias on writing assignments and other subjective answers. I’ve taught writing classes before, and designed rubrics to help my students understand what I’m grading them on. There’s still a LOT of subjectivity in the grading.

Of course it could, if someone changed the code appropriately.

Yes, which is why while I do what I can in all ways to recruit black and brown folks into tech, I’m not touching one of those diversity officer positions. First of all I want to be the chief of all y’alls, not just the Department of Brown People Problems. But second of all I feel like a better way for me,…

And the retail stores and, in Amazon’s case, warehouse workers. And I the divide between tech and non tech jobs. The numbers are even more dismal if you’re looking at black people in actual technical positions that work full time at corporate and not in a retail store or warehouse.

You shouldn’t. The raw numbers for black people are so small in the first place that pushing the percentages up is trivial. There could even be a series of layoffs that results in the percentages going up without hiring a single black person if the team that gets laid off has no or very few black people on it. And…

But she’s right. (I encourage you to read the rest of this comment before crucifying me; it’s gonna go left.)

I don’t think there’s an way answer to the question you posed. I am black and queer (but not trans). My knee jerk reaction was “of course a close personal friend,” but then I paused. I have some really great, wonderful, liberal white close friends who I know don’t understand all the nuances of being a black queer…

You’re on the Internet. Google is your friend.

The Secret of NIMH wasn’t a Disney movie, but heck yeah it was pretty dark. One of my favorite animated movies though. Don Bluth beings high quality darkness to terrify youngsters.

And I AM a millennial and can appreciate 80s rap. This ain’t age/generational; this is just “no accounting for taste”stuff.

OK, this had me rollin.

Yeah, that was going to be my comment too. Carell was really good in The Big Short.

I don’t really give a shit about Tyler Perry; my question is why are we getting movies about mediocre and/or boring-ass white people where there are so many stories about black and brown people that ain’t been told yet? I mean, Dick Cheney’s story is the height of boring as fuck. Upper-middle-class family has white…