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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.
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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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