johnathanNYC

10 anni fadiscuss

I too saw your talk at startup school, wish I had the opportunity to speak to you both personally; but I'm glad you all are here answering questions. I found some of the examples given on how to solve the chicken and egg issue very interesting and helpful to the dilemma I'm currently facing with my company. Do you mind sharing additional failed and successful strategies to gain and balance customers within the AptDeco marketplace?

johnathanNYC

10 anni fadiscuss

Awesome! Thanks for creating this, heading over now.

johnathanNYC

11 anni fadiscuss

You've completely missed the point and it also seems your view of the world is very different than it actually is. How do you propose YC approach an issue like this, in a country filled with racism and discrimination? Is your idea really just "treat all people equally" and the world will follow suit? How does that work?

johnathanNYC

11 anni fadiscuss

This was incredibly hard to read, but you are correct in one thing, it is not racism. It's Institutional racism, which is any system of inequality based on race.

johnathanNYC

11 anni fadiscuss

I'm just simply asking whats the cause of the poor treatment? If you are able to assert that it is not due to white privilege and know if someone is off-base, then I'm assuming you know that cause to make such an assertion. That's all.

johnathanNYC

11 anni fadiscuss

Then whats the cause of the poor treatment?

johnathanNYC

11 anni fadiscuss

I completely disagree with this, but can you elaborate on racism not being in policy. I think you are confusing systemic racism (in regards to white privilege) with slurs, discrimination, hating someone's skin color, etc.

johnathanNYC

11 anni fadiscuss

At a high level; wealth, education and jobs which is easily afforded due to 400 years of slavery, 100 years of blatant discrimination and 50+ years discrimination built into the American Justice System. White Americans also do not have to worry about mass incarcerations and racial profiling. Laci Green does a fantastic job a breaking all of these down: https://youtu.be/h_hx30zOi9I

johnathanNYC

11 anni fadiscuss

As someone who is both (afro-latino), I'm really excited about this. After reading the majority of the comments, I'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'd be happy to answer.

Curious to why the word Hispanic was used instead of Latino. If you are unfamiliar with the difference, read here: http://www.diffen.com/difference/Hispanic_vs_Latino