African-american "Geeks"

crazygray1 · Post by **crazygray1** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:05 pm

Does anybody know of any African-American "Computer Geeks" "Hackers" "Programmers" etc. That have any involvement with unix?

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:20 pm

This seems like a question that can easily be answered: "Yes, obviously.."

There are people of every culture using Unix-like operating systems..

Your topics are very annoying crazygray1..

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:30 pm

Mark Shuttleworth?

crazygray1 · Post by **crazygray1** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:53 pm

Who then?

bloodhound23 · Post by **bloodhound23** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:55 pm

Mark Dean (Not Unix but still...)

ucosty · Post by **ucosty** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:13 pm

Alboin wrote:Mark Shuttleworth?

More South African then African American.

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:54 pm

ucosty wrote:
Alboin wrote:Mark Shuttleworth?
More South African then African American.

I think (though i may be wrong) that Americans think "African American" is a somehow less racist term than "Black people" for Black people. It has nothing todo with africans or americans. In England, African American is considered condescending and simply rude considering most of the people an American would say it to here are niether African nor American.

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:17 pm

Tyler wrote:
ucosty wrote:
Alboin wrote:Mark Shuttleworth?
More South African then African American.
I think (though i may be wrong) that Americans think "African American" is a somehow less racist term than "Black people" for Black people. It has nothing todo with africans or americans.

Exactly. If you haven't noticed, America is swamped with political correctness .

I don't really get it myself. 'Africa' isn't even a country. ('Zimbabwean-American' would make more sense, for example.) The whole thing is screwed up. We try not to insult anyone, but at the same time we torture our prisoners of war, while our economy is nose diving, and we're spending billions on a failed war. It's such a nice place to live.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:43 pm

We're all from Africa, according to most evolution theories...

com1 · Post by **com1** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:37 pm

oh please....yeah the earth is simply 10 billion years old because no evidence supports it, good reasoning!

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:36 pm

Politically incorrect sentence:

"Could you please pass the black pencil?"

Politically correct sentence:

"Could you please pass the African-American pencil?"

I had to say it

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AJ · Post by AJ » Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:54 am

Apparently, teachers here aren't meant to refer to the "Blackboard" or "Whiteboard" in schools now - it's just "the board". I think that's taking it a little far....

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:09 am

That gets funny when you try to apply chalk to the whiteboard, or a marker pen to the blackboard.

@ com1:

Go away.

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:57 am

AJ wrote:Apparently, teachers here aren't meant to refer to the "Blackboard" or "Whiteboard" in schools now - it's just "the board". I think that's taking it a little far....

Yeah we got told off in secondary school for saying Blackboard, it's a Chalk board, White board was ok though, you can't be racist at white people.

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:16 am

Tyler wrote:
AJ wrote:Apparently, teachers here aren't meant to refer to the "Blackboard" or "Whiteboard" in schools now - it's just "the board". I think that's taking it a little far....
Yeah we got told off in secondary school for saying Blackboard, it's a Chalk board, White board was ok though, you can't be racist at white people.

Wouldn't that line be racistic of itself

Really, you can take things too far. Next you can't even use black as a color anymore.

It reminds me of that time when somebody thought about forbidding the name of a dutch brand of cookies because it had the word 'negroid' in it. That just gives things the wrong kind of attention. That the negroid race has a black skin is simply a fact. Racism only happens when you treat that group differently for a reason that is completely irrelevant: the color of one's skin is a very poor measure for how well one can actually perform a job.

Respect is key.