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The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Search Engine

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Re: The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Search Engine

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Annnd they used the whitest photo of him they could find.

You might be surprised, but in the American context numerous people considered "black" for political reasons clearly have microscopic amounts of black admixture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Butterfield

https://twitter.com/mayorvincegray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Jealous

Re: The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Search Engine

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post #5

Annnd they used the whitest photo of him they could find.

He doesn't look black at all to me. Not even like the mixed people I've seen. I'm not contesting it so much as saying I'd have gone with white or latino based on the pic. I wonder what ethnicity is in family tree. Probably mixed in interesting way.

Re: The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Search Engine

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post #5

Annnd they used the whitest photo of him they could find.

You might be surprised, but in the American context numerous people considered "black" for political reasons clearly have microscopic amounts of black admixture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Butterfield https://twitter.com/mayorvincegray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Jealous

You can't necessarily discern a person's racial makeup from just their skin tone so assuming these people have "microscopic amounts of black admixture" seems pretty ignorant. Basically you just made a list of light skin black people.

Re: The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Search Engine

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I don't understand why one would point out a person's race (unless it's relevant to the situaiton), but since the title did...

I cannot fanthom how anyone could call this person "black". If anything, his complexion is similar to what US people call "hispanic" (although to me that's just southern European, not a distinct race).

Re: The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Search Engine

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post #5

Annnd they used the whitest photo of him they could find.

You might be surprised, but in the American context numerous people considered "black" for political reasons clearly have microscopic amounts of black admixture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Butterfield https://twitter.com/mayorvincegray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Jealous

> You might be surprised, but in the American context numerous people considered "black" for political reasons clearly have microscopic amounts of black admixture.

E.g. Mr. Obama, who is actually half-white but considered black by American blacks and whites alike.

Re: The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Search Engine

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I don't get the title. Does it matter what color the man was? In an article about TBL I also don't expect a title beginning with 'The white man whom ....'

> it’s worth revisiting that past during Black History Month

Re: The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Search Engine

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I don't get the title. Does it matter what color the man was? In an article about TBL I also don't expect a title beginning with 'The white man whom ....'

Why so sexist? Does it matter that it was a man?

"The sentient being who invented the first search engine" would have more appropriate.

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