[legitster]

> I'll guess the non-interest is due to some combination of HNer's being unaware, uninterested, and resigned.

I think most people here would accept that black people in America are systematically disenfranchised. But the entire onus of the article is on the failure stemming from within academia. This isn't an academic discussion board, and I never attended a computer science program so I can't speak to that either.

And again, the data they presented showed how overrepresented other minorities are within the programming profession. So it doesn't seem fair call the entire profession racist when it seems like the specific problem is that black Americans are disenfranchised across all spectrums of their life.