African Americans and the Video Game Industry

An anonymous reader writes "African Americans spend more money and time playing video games than whites, yet only 2% of game developers are black. This past week, MTV's Multiplayer blog interviewed five black game industry professionals for their perspective on race in the industry. Intelligent Gamer summarizes and highlights portions of this lengthy series of interviews."

Comments

It's difficult to learn programming

[Anonymous Coward]

when you are preoccupied with marijuana, video games and have limited opportunities to affordable education.

The amount of focus(1)and education (2) is why blacks (3) are not engaged in programming.

1(diminished by drugs)
2(which requires money and time)
3(not African-American because most are native born Americans)

Solution? Education of the elementary children on the importance of a higher education, a drug free life style and the constant involvement of FATHERS and FATHER FIGURES in the children's lives.

(not trying to be flame bait)

Someone call the waahmbulance

[thetoadwarrior]

The tech sector is the *least* racist sector ever. We're importing Indians, Chinese, Japanese, etc to fill these jobs. Do they honestly think they don't want to give the jobs to local blacks or women?

No, you'll find women and blacks look up to their heroes like fiddy cent and Paris Hilton and aspire to have money but not do things like programming classes or taking trig and or Calc in high school. Women much rather marry an older man with money than work 12 hours a day in front of a computer.

They don't want to work for it, they obviously rather sit around and play video games and listen to rap so they won't work in the industry and the industry will end up importing other minorities who aren't so lazy.

Re:here we go again

[Robber Baron]

Racism, just like sexism, is so deeply ingrained in most people they're totally blind to it ...or maybe the reason we're most of us are "blind" to it is that it isn't doesn't actually exist, except in your quixotic, narrow-minded, liberal-socialist alternate reality!
I bet you also think that white heterosexual men are solely to blame for everything that's wrong in the world too...

Re:Is this really surprising?

[Breakfast Pants]

>When did scholarship money become about what a person looks like rather than their drive, ambition and abilities anyways??!

Sure, you are outraged by this, but yet you don't speak out on such things as alumni preference (at many schools it is officially part of the weighting that if your parents went to school there, you get a better chance). This has been directly shown to cause a sort of affirmative action for white people; but of course you wouldn't care about that; it isn't convenient for your argument.

here we go again and again

[aztektum]

An emotionally charged rant that solves nothing and makes your cause (if one can really extract what it is from your post) look cobbled together by an ignorant tool.

If your best efforts to look far wiser than others merely end up being incomprehensible denigration of others, you would do yourself a favor and simply shut up.

Does racism exist? Yes. So what, oh enlightened one, if you're not suggesting quotas, are you fucking suggesting? Assuming you even have one. If your goal was to simply spout off, please save it.

And how the fuck did this get modded to 4 Insightful so far?

Re:Who cares?

[urcreepyneighbor]

The vast majority of *top* game designers/programmers are Japanese. So... you're saying we should nuke black America?

YOU RACIST! ;D