Comment by getgoingnow

  The hilarity is in how this perpetuates the reasons for excluding a class of individuals from participating in the software creation process.

You are excluded from companies using computer science if you are bad at math. Blacks are worse at math than Whites and Asians, therefore they will be hired less - especially in companies where everyone wants to work.

  Good in math probably won't give you the empathy and insights into how technology could help rural Kentuckians.

Will being bad at math give you that? What does building software have to do with rural Kentuckians and how are black software engineers going to help you with that?

  Additionally, software today is very much a 'poke at the frameworks, and mash it together' sort of affair.

Are you trying to say that Blacks are as good as Whites/Asians at poking at frameworks. If they are bad at math, maybe they are bad at this as well. BTW, I am referring to computer science, not knowing JS frameworks. Computer science requires mathematics.

  So, yah, one more exclusionary myth about the qualifications of engineers, and who's best at it (whites and Asians? really?)

What is mythical about this? I've given you the data that clearly shows that Blacks are worse at math than Whites/Asians. They also perform worse at SAT-Critical reading.