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Prince Quietly Helped Launch a Coding Program For Inner City Youth (qz.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Though many would say Prince changed the world through his music, the artist also took a hands-on approach to changing the world beyond music. The global superstar was the inspiration behind YesWeCode, an Oakland nonprofit, which works to help young people from minority backgrounds enter the tech world. The idea for the program came from a conversation between Prince and his friend Van Jones, who heads Rebuild the Dream charity, following the 2012 shooting of teenager Travoyn Martin. "Prince said, 'A black kid wearing a hoodie might be seen as a thug. A white kid wearing a hoodie might be seen as a Silicon Valley genius. Let's teach the black kids how to be like Mark Zuckerberg.'" Jones told CNN. The program is aiming to teach 100,000 low-income non-white teenagers how to write code, and was launched at the 20th Anniversary Essence Festival in New Orleans in 2014.
But if it's only for non-white teens, that is the definition of racism.
You're absolutely right. White minority students in California (a minority-majority state) wouldn't qualify for this program.
Listen, as one of your duly enshrined plutocratic oligarchs its my duty to insist upon you coding. Code. Do it. Come one come all and learn the code. Seriously it wasnt this hard to get you to start eating fried processed chicken "nuggets" or pick up another credit card, and yet here we are toeing the line again. Weve installed "code" into all your pop culture, even the prince, in a very transparent attempt to get you start doing this for us. We've even taken the initiative to market gender-specific coding pitches to males and females, as you've grown so fond of for everything from food to deodorant. Code is in your movies, your TV series, your cartoons, and your social media. The faster you start coding, the faster we can get to shuffling "programmer" and "system engineer" back to the bottom of the dung heap of salaried wageslave positions.
Im serious. im getting really tired of dealing responsibly and reasonably with employed programmers and sysops just because they have 4 job offers at any given time to pick from. I want..no..I need a world where I can get up at 10 AM, shit on a man for screwing up an egg mcmuffin, and then turn around and with the same disregard for humanity shit on a man for arguing the need for patching before features. Its just what ive become.
Good people go to bed earlier.
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How is this program supposed to actually work?
Teaching students how to think logically rather than impulsively is a useful skill in life.
You need Harvard to help with crawling into upper class, but you do not need tit to become a normal middle class coder.
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