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rockarage on Oct 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arrington, Race, and Silicon Valley

Here is an interesting article about a white american athlete who complained about bias agains white americans in the NBA.

see:

http://www.thegrio.com/opinion/should-the-nba-assist-white-p...

I see parallels, it's a cultural thing, generally speaking in the African American community tech startups are not valued like playing basketball/football or being singer/rapper/actor.

The startups that are popular in the African American community is the record label.

I also thought this was interesting as well: http://deadspin.com/kyle-mcalarney/

entangld on Oct 29, 2011 [–]

This is not just black people. Entertainment is almost always valued highly over technology even in the general American population.

I think Marc Andreesen (not exactly sure if it was him) wrote about how companies that provide entertainment (YouTube, Twitter etc) end up being worth much more than others.

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