{"id":6541,"date":"2011-11-02T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2011-11-02T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T06:04:11","slug":"asians-are-not-a-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/asians-are-not-a-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"Asians are not a minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bet.com\/news\/national\/2011\/10\/30\/is-there-room-for-diversity-in-silicon-valley-.html\">Is There Room for Diversity in Silicon Valley?<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the CNN documentary series, \u201cBlack in America,\u201d eight Black entrepreneurs in the NewMe Accelerator program share their struggles to launch start-up businesses in a place where<b> minority representation is virtually nonexistent<\/b>. In an interview that ignited a firestorm on Twitter this week, Mike Arrington, an industry leader and founder of TechCrunch, revealed an even harsher reality: \u201cThis is a white and <b>Asian<\/b> world up here \u2014 it just is,\u201d he said. Arrington, who also commented that he doesn\u2019t know of a single Black entrepreneur in the Valley, was harshly criticized for his apparent acceptance of the racial disparity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanford_University#Student_body\">Stanford is 35% non-Hispanic white<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palo_Alto,_California#2010\">Palo Alto<\/a> is somewhat less non-Hispanic white than the national average. Sometimes people have a script, and they&#8217;re going to stick to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is There Room for Diversity in Silicon Valley?: In the CNN documentary series, \u201cBlack in America,\u201d eight Black entrepreneurs in the NewMe Accelerator program share their struggles to launch start-up businesses in a place where minority representation is virtually nonexistent. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/asians-are-not-a-minority\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6543,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}