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Re:YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders by aianus on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @08:46PM (#10230931)
> It's basically designed to the ycombinator staff can not be subconsciously racist towards founders.

The solution to being subconsciously racist is to be overtly racist instead? Come on.

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Re:YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders by pixelcloud on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @09:21PM (#10231032)
I'm just pointing out a perspective :)

I cannot imagine that YCombinator did not offer equal opportunity's for all applicants. But they have been slammed with some negative press over the past 2 years (and PG specifically), regarding diversity and women founders.

It is not all that surprising. They explicitly said last year they were going to do something to improve diversity.

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