<story><title>YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours-for-black-and-hispanic-founders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnathanNYC</author><text>As someone who is both (afro-latino), I&amp;#x27;m really excited about this. After reading the majority of the comments, I&amp;#x27;m a little disappointed. It seems that many do not understand that being white and male in the United States, by default, affords many privileges that monitories struggle to obtain. If there any questions about this, I&amp;#x27;d be happy to answer.&lt;p&gt;Curious to why the word Hispanic was used instead of Latino. If you are unfamiliar with the difference, read here: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.diffen.com&amp;#x2F;difference&amp;#x2F;Hispanic_vs_Latino&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.diffen.com&amp;#x2F;difference&amp;#x2F;Hispanic_vs_Latino&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tcdent</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious what privileges you perceive, or know to be true, for non-minorities.&lt;p&gt;I absolutely agree there is a problem. I&amp;#x27;ve heard many first-hand accounts of violence and disrespect from all races. I&amp;#x27;m interested in a solution that doesn&amp;#x27;t just take the labels from a pie chart and reinforce the dividing lines between what ultimately is one group.</text></comment>
<story><title>YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours-for-black-and-hispanic-founders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnathanNYC</author><text>As someone who is both (afro-latino), I&amp;#x27;m really excited about this. After reading the majority of the comments, I&amp;#x27;m a little disappointed. It seems that many do not understand that being white and male in the United States, by default, affords many privileges that monitories struggle to obtain. If there any questions about this, I&amp;#x27;d be happy to answer.&lt;p&gt;Curious to why the word Hispanic was used instead of Latino. If you are unfamiliar with the difference, read here: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.diffen.com&amp;#x2F;difference&amp;#x2F;Hispanic_vs_Latino&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.diffen.com&amp;#x2F;difference&amp;#x2F;Hispanic_vs_Latino&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falsestprophet</author><text>There are 27 million white&amp;#x2F;European Americans of Hispanic descent in the United States today.&lt;p&gt;There are over 200 million white people and over 4.5 million Asian people living in Latin America.&lt;p&gt;Do you mean Latinos of descent other than European and Asian?</text></comment>