TITLE: Programming for All: will.i.am
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: November 02, 2011  7:39 AM
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While reading a bit about the recent flap over racism
in the tech start-up world, I found this passage in
<A HREF="http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/28/oh-shit-im-a-racist/">
   a piece by Michael Arrington</A>:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
will.i.am was proposing an ambitious new idea to help
get inner city youth (mostly minorities) to begin to
see superstar entrepreneurs as the new role models,
instead of NBA stars.  He believes that we can effect
real societal change by getting young people to learn
how to program, and realize that they can start
businesses that will change the world.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

Cool.
<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will.i.am">
   will.i.am</A>
is a pop star who has had the ear of a lot of kids over
the last few years.  I hope they listen to this message
from him as much as they do to his music.
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