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I know the article is a month old, apologies if it was posted already, couldn't find anything with the search function.[/I]



Someone please stop the crazy white people. In yet another example of racist appery, the white entrepreneurs above just made another app to help white folks ensure they never end up in a place where there are?well?non-white folks.

SketchFactor, helps users avoid ?sketchy? neighborhoods, and by ?sketchy? they mean ?poor and non-white?. Yet, far from being condemned as racists by the tech community, grinning Caucasian c0-founders, Allison McGuire and Daniel Herrington are finalists in a $20,000 startup contest!

The pair must have heard it on the grapevine (see what I did there?) that some disquiet about their app exists, because they headed it off at the pass on their blog. While inviting their fellow white people to share ?sketchy? stories about strangers they spot (translation: warn white folks there are black folks about) ? they remind us all that the purpose is not, repeat, not racist:

Who we?re not: racists, bigots, sexists. Any discriminatory posts will be deleted.

So, don?t say black, say ?ghetto? or ?urban? ? and you?re all good.

But this isn?t even the first app on the market to perform this black-dodging. Back in September 2013, Gawker reported on another app titled ?GhettoTracker? ? like SketchFactor, the images representing users and good areas were white, the bad, Black and Latino.



source; http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/08...neighborhoods/

Thoughts? Knowing the following kind of stats:
A 2012 study by the Department of Justice?s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention revealed that in 2010 black youths committed six times more murders, three times more rapes, 10 times more robberies and three times more assaults than did their white counterparts. - See more at: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=1486....ZsxR41BO.dpuf

Would you consider the App racist?

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