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Where Are The Black Internet Workers? Civil Rights Bigs Weigh In
The Michigan Chronicle ^ | July 23, 2014 | Lynette Holloway, NewsOne for Black America

Posted on 07/23/2014 11:20:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t understand this either. I thought they taught computer skills in prison.


41 posted on 07/24/2014 6:58:04 AM PDT by Jay Redhawk (Has Uncle Sam ran away with Lady Liberty?)
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42 posted on 07/24/2014 7:30:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Guess the Urban league hasn’t gotten the message....blacks are being replaced by “hispanics” you idiots...reap what you sow


43 posted on 07/24/2014 7:30:56 AM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Internet companies appear to be almost universally liberal in their political leanings. If there are qualified minority candidates out there I am sure that they are gobbled up quickly by Google, Apple, et al.

Either there are few qualified candidates, or these companies are hiding their true racial views.


44 posted on 07/24/2014 7:38:17 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: SandwicheGuy

This black dude gets it. Of course it would also work with mysql and say databases as well. Strange as I am on a plane, I was still doing code review while waiting to get on the plane. I have written on this subject before...


45 posted on 07/24/2014 7:39:31 AM PDT by jimjohn (You don't get the kind of government you want, or the kind you need. You get the kind you deserve.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks! That matchbook exposes the major problem that stopped blacks from entering the high tech field. The Labor Dept. should have put a young black man and woman on those matchbooks they were giving out. That way the message would have gotten out every time a black person fired up a Kool menthol. Instead, those matches were being used by whites to light up their Marlboro cigs. Once again it is a case of discrimination! LOL!


46 posted on 07/24/2014 7:45:09 AM PDT by Jay Redhawk (Has Uncle Sam ran away with Lady Liberty?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is it impossible to get through the skulls of some people that doors aren’t “firmly shut” for them? If you do not have the skills, you will not get hired. How difficult is that to understand? It is not a case of businesses refusing to hiring minorities. It is a case of businesses refusing to hire unqualified people who happen to be minorities.


47 posted on 07/24/2014 9:05:42 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I fail to understand why it is Google’s, or Facebook’s, or Twitter’s or any other company’s responsibility to ensure that Marc Morial (who can’t program his way out of a paper bag) is satisfied with the number of “minorities” they hire. If “minorities” want to be hired as scientists, or engineers, or software writers, or other well compensated technical occupations they can bloody well do it the old fashioned way. They can EARN it.


48 posted on 07/24/2014 9:10:27 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: driftless2

I’ll bet these race hustlers feel these companies should provide free training, at a premium wage, for their poor fellows.


49 posted on 07/24/2014 9:14:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: MasterGunner01
Most non-entitlement non-black people do not understand that stuff either. But then they know that it's not because of their color....they are not hired because they don't have the goods. Any tech firm that would turn down a qualified black person because of their color is more stupid than racist.

Apparently, many people, like the writer of this article, believe all jobs are cases of people being placed there without working hard for those jobs. Somebody just wants to be a rocket scientist and voila!...they're qualified rocket scientists. The real world doesn't work that way.

50 posted on 07/24/2014 9:18:25 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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How many blacks graduate from top-level tech schools? I assume none of the best schools have Black studies or Womyn’s studies. Which would be utterly worthless in the tech or science fields anyway. At some point somebody has to tell these whiners to go p...up a rope.


51 posted on 07/24/2014 9:23:48 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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There can be no arguing or trying to compromise with people who think this way (the writer of this article). They must be stopped.


52 posted on 07/24/2014 9:26:08 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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How many blacks graduate from top-level tech schools? I assume none of the best schools have Black studies or Womyn’s studies. Which would be utterly worthless in the tech or science fields anyway. At some point somebody has to tell these whiners to go p...up a rope.

In a table of how many PhDs awarded by race and subject, in 2009 1,574 Computer Science PhDs graduated in the US. You want to how many Computer Science PhDs were award to blacks in 2009? 30.

53 posted on 07/24/2014 1:47:13 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The software game is one of the pure meritocracies left in the business world. There’s no kick about race - its all about the code. If you can churn it out quickly and elegantly, you are in. If not, you are out.

There are all manner of colors in the software biz, and there are a lot of Indian folk who’s skin is just as dark as any African American. The difference is that they work hard and possess the knowledge to succeed.

“Eyes on the prize”, if I may borrow a phrase.


54 posted on 07/24/2014 2:30:21 PM PDT by Ol' Sox
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To: driftless2
I may fancy myself as a neurosurgeon because I've read a book and taken a multiple guess test. However, given those qualifications, no sane person would allow me to pick up a scalpel and saw to play around inside their skull, either. That's called self preservation and there's no racism that attaches to the rejection.
55 posted on 07/24/2014 2:34:45 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Probably in the same place as all those black hockey players or bowlers.

Geez, these racists and their quotas are annoying still to this day.


56 posted on 07/24/2014 2:39:02 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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Probably in the same place as all those black hockey players or bowlers.

Or White NFL Running Backs.

57 posted on 07/24/2014 2:40:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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