Obstacles to 'coding while black' [View all]

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http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35938633

As part of the programme, each student is provided with a living expense. When one of his students, who did not have a bank account, attempted to cash his cheque in a branch of the Atlanta Check Cashing Company, he was accused of attempting to submit a false or stolen money order. Police were called, and the student was threatened with arrest.

Sampson broke the story down into a series of tweets, and posted the stream on Storify. His posts have been shared hundreds of times.

It has started a conversation about barriers keeping low-income and minority students out of the tech field.

"We have to have the hard skills; but we have 2 be taught 2 navigate simple transactions like cashing a check, interacting w/ law enforcement," tweeted Sampson.

We absolutely cannot compete with the rest of the world if we're locking out 13% of our future potential coding geniuses up front. This shit has to end now.