Slack got four of its black female engineers to accept a startup award

Re:Slack got four of its black female engineers to accept a ... by Swizec on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @04:29PM (#11076173)

> Somehow between the 20th and 21st century, our skin colour turned white and we're no different than white people.

Fun fact: in the beginning of the 20th century, you weren't white if you were Irish or Italian.

"White" in the US has little to do with skin colour. It's more of a social construct.

> The definition of white has changed significantly over the course of American history. Even among Europeans those not considered white at some point in American history include Southern Europeans (Italian, Spaniard, Greek, Portuguese, etc.), Irish people and Central Europeans (Germans, Poles) and Eastern Europeans (Russians) but mostly notably[citation needed] Polish people due to the Partitions of Poland.[21][22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Americans#Historical_and...

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Re:Slack got four of its black female engineers to accept a ... by tptacek on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @04:33PM (#11076210)

Which is, of course, the problem with "white pride": "white" really just means "not an other". Italian Pride, Irish Pride, Polish Pride, all relatively noncontroversial. "White Pride", however, really means "proud of not being one of those others".

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