<story><title>Racial Fault Lines in Silicon Valley</title><url>https://blog.devcolor.org/racial-fault-lines-in-silicon-valley-390cd0e4a6dc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vowelless</author><text>That was a really ridiculous question to ask.  I&amp;#x27;m brown 
 and if someone asked me about middle eastern politics during an interview or worse made some low quality comment, I would promotly get up and leave. I don&amp;#x27;t have the patience for that in a professional setting.&lt;p&gt;On a separate note&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;#x2F;dev&amp;#x2F;color is a community of black software engineers who help one another reach career goals. To learn more, check out our website and follow our blog &amp;amp; twitter account.&lt;p&gt;Then why not call it &amp;#x2F;dev&amp;#x2F;black? I find it confusing. Does &amp;quot;color&amp;quot; imply black? I have been called a &amp;quot;person of color&amp;quot; before,  due to my brown skin and middle eastern features.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kalium</author><text>&amp;quot;Color&amp;quot; implies black, but it is also used to imply other colors sometimes. It &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; imply middle eastern, east asian, southeast asian, hispanic, and several other groups. However, aside from implying black, other implications are context-sensitive and as a result different authors sometimes mean very different things when they write &amp;quot;person of color&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Racial Fault Lines in Silicon Valley</title><url>https://blog.devcolor.org/racial-fault-lines-in-silicon-valley-390cd0e4a6dc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vowelless</author><text>That was a really ridiculous question to ask.  I&amp;#x27;m brown 
 and if someone asked me about middle eastern politics during an interview or worse made some low quality comment, I would promotly get up and leave. I don&amp;#x27;t have the patience for that in a professional setting.&lt;p&gt;On a separate note&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;#x2F;dev&amp;#x2F;color is a community of black software engineers who help one another reach career goals. To learn more, check out our website and follow our blog &amp;amp; twitter account.&lt;p&gt;Then why not call it &amp;#x2F;dev&amp;#x2F;black? I find it confusing. Does &amp;quot;color&amp;quot; imply black? I have been called a &amp;quot;person of color&amp;quot; before,  due to my brown skin and middle eastern features.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>In some contexts “color” has referred to mainly African-descended people. In other contexts “color” gets applied more broadly to anyone with non-European ancestry. Don’t overthink the &amp;#x2F;dev&amp;#x2F;color&amp;#x2F; name.&lt;p&gt;For some very incomplete hints at some of the history, see Wikipedia
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Colored&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Colored&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Person_of_color&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Person_of_color&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>