Industry needs more minority programmers...

**avatar** · 05 Aug 2005, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by animegirl

I hate movies like this. Soul Plane, I am looking in your direction. I usually don't like movies that are all "Whateva, you go girl", you can have intellegent funny movies that point out the differences between white and black people. I thought Undercover Brother actually did a good job with this type of comedy.

Yeah you have movies like Undercover Brother and Barbershop that are funny, but intelligent.

Then next month you have soul Plane and Taxi to set black movies a decade back.

**MVS** · 05 Aug 2005, 05:01 PM

From the link:

"Roughly 80 percent of video game programmers are white"

Which corresponds nicely with:

July 1, 2004 Census White 235,990,895 Percentage of US Population : 80.4%

**Diff-chan** · 05 Aug 2005, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by avatar

Then next month you have soul Plane and Taxi to set black movies a decade back.

Wow, I never knew Jimmy Fallon was black.

**Fe 26** · 05 Aug 2005, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by Thief~Silver

See there's the thing, we keep talking like these kids can do it without any help, and many of them can. But there's another aspect that many of these fucked up parents in these ghettos give and that's not being unable to help, it's the fact they hinder them and try to force them to fail. You're all getting into a narrow view that nothing can stop someone from improving and making their way through life, but a set of unsupportive parents who do whatever they can to make their child feel miserable and worthless is one thing many of these children go through.
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I think me and Bacon McShig have said more than a few times that peoples out look is the deciding factor, AND family and freinds play a big part in that out look.

**lithium** · 05 Aug 2005, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by Bacon McShig

He graduated with a 3.2 GPA, and went on to and recently graduated from a very expensive private art school almost entirely on scholarships,

Wow. I had one hell of a time getting any scholarships at all (in fact I ended up getting none) with my 3.85 highschool GPA.

Then again, I'm white.

**Diff-chan** · 05 Aug 2005, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by hugmuffin

Wow. I had one hell of a time getting any scholarships at all (in fact I ended up getting none) with my 3.85 highschool GPA.

Then again, I'm white.

Yea, really - white people are the victims in today's society. So are rich people, with the damn progressive tax structure.

Rich white people have it so bad.

**lithium** · 05 Aug 2005, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by diffusionx

Yea, really - white people are the victims in today's society.

No it's just this whole racial shit is messed up in all directions. Affirmative action is BS. My roommate in college was hispanic. He never went to any of his classes, just partied. He had a full ride of scholarships and was enrolled in a minority program that let him register for classes before everyone else (which in a huge state school is a huge boon). It pissed me off that he got all that just because he happened to be hispanic. I worked my ass off, paid my own way through school, and walked out with very good grades. Didn't get a lick of help from anyone, just because I happen to be white.