&gt; I can&#x27;t begin to understand how it is an issue, and I&#x27;m black (and European). I don&#x27;t care about the color or the sex of my coworkers. What difference does it make? you can&#x27;t relate to white people? No the main issue is networking and going out of one&#x27;s own &quot;sphere&quot; or microcosm.<p>Read my comment later, where I mentioned that I have more white friends than black friends. I have no problem with white people. And no, I don&#x27;t care about the color or sex of my coworkers. Instead, I was describing a very real phenomenom which may have been overlooked in the article.<p>&gt; If they really like programming then they should worry about programming first and foremost, not how diverse is their environment. But maybe it&#x27;s because of my upbringing, when I was the only black in a class of 30 students, I didn&#x27;t have the time or any interest in worrying about the &quot;blackness&quot; of the classroom. I didn&#x27;t have the time to worry about my tastes being &quot;black&quot; or white or whatever.<p>Not sure if you or I should say what those students should be worrying about. I think you may be missing my point. I made no mention about what those students should do. Instead, I talked about what they may be doing.<p>&gt; Sure, people trust their kin more, and you talking about being &quot;only black person in the room&quot; is in my opinion the expression of that fact.<p>Actually that came from my personal experience (and that of many other POC) of trusting people who are not my kin, and then having race be brought up in a way that was detrimental to me.