What It's Like to Be a Black Mathematician

Re:What It's Like to Be a Black Mathematician by tptacek on Monday February 18, 2019 @03:31PM (#19194133)

I have no idea where you're trying to take this. I'm saying that it's not productive to argue over the subtext of a hypothetical conversation neither of us are a party to. At some point your argument is going to have to boil down to "no, that person relating that story is not being fully truthful". Ok, that's a coherent argument, but not one I'm interested in having with you.

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Re:What It's Like to Be a Black Mathematician by afiori on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:41AM (#19207671)

I need to say I am a bit confused, I maybe replied in the wrong place.

I meant to reply to a comment that only provided as an information that somebody believed to be a token black hire. To this my point was that multiple non trivial interpretation were possible.

Now I realize I commented directly on the article so that I was in practice casting doubt on the content. This was a mistake, to be clear I trust the Edray Goins version of his own story.

A bit late to reply, but I feel it is an important distinction.

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