Obstacles to 'coding while black'

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10. This failure to develop top talent is such a shame.

Everyone loses. I am a boss (not in tech), and I have begun to think of my staff like NFL GM would. I have a salary cap that must be respected. To win games I cannot rely only on expensive first rounders and free agents. I need to develop the talent that is unidentified and/or underrated. This seems like common business sense, but clearly the big bosses in silicon valley can't grasp it and continue to bid up the most obvious choices while ignoring large pools of potential talent. Crap, am I the ONLY one who read Moneyball?

Here is an interesting article I meant to post here as an OP, but never got around to about how minority students are underrepresented in gifted programs. Seems like a big factor is too few black teachers and the fact that "gifted" characteristics (excessive questioning, strong opinions, sensory issues that lead to emotional outbursts) in white children are tolerated and encouraged, but are seen as disrespect and misbehavior in black children. So the dysfunction, our inability to recognize and develop black intellectual talent, starts really early.

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/why-are-there-so-few-black-children-in-gifted-and-talented-programs/424707/

It is a good article, I really should post it.....