My personal feelings<p>1. Kudos to the article for calling black people black, and not african americans: (<a href="http://davidadewumi.com/2008/01/27/just-call-me-black/" rel="nofollow">http://davidadewumi.com/2008/01/27/just-call-me-black/</a>)<p>2. How many black tech startups (or even Y C applications) have been around in the past decade or so?<p>I'd wager not many, and if/when there are, not much press coverage.<p>Two key comments to draw out of this article:<p>. Bringing up a young driver "is so expensive, no matter what your background," Gibbs says. "The diversity side just takes time. You've got to find some young guys and train them."<p>1. Sports with high barriers to entry (just like entrepreneurship) are by default going to draw smaller minority crowds-- if you can play basketball, football, or baseball for almost free, why do a high-end sport like tennis, NASCAR, hockey or lacrosse?<p>He's not racing as a "black driver." What drew him to the sport--the speed, his competitive nature--is what keeps him there...If Davis happens to become a black role model, so be it. "But I never really thought about the racial things," he says. "I race because I love it."<p>2. It's not about race -- the more we see it as a racial thing, whether it be politics or sports "the first black head coach to win a superbowl," the bigger the problem it is.