Is that something to be encouraged or discouraged?
> By gathering people with the same upbringing together to work toward a common goal,
People of the same race have the same upbringing? What am I even reading?
> I'm sure you feel the same way as well when you are in an 'ethnic' neighborhood or gathering.
Are we as a society supposed to indulge that feeling? Pampering that feeling creates more racial fracturing than it fixes.
> Is that something to be encouraged or discouraged?
I think you're reading way too much into what I'm saying. I'm just stating how I think it is. Whether you like it or not, when a homogeneous group gains power anywhere, people will be suspicious, just like if a company was run solely by Republicans, the Smith family, or black people.
> People of the same race have the same upbringing? What am I even reading?
Fine, I'll be more specific, under-privileged African-Americans, 2nd generation Latinos, Southern rural white people tend to have have similar upbringings with regard to family, income, culture, and education.
> Are we as a society supposed to indulge that feeling? > Pampering that feeling creates more racial fracturing than it fixes.
I'm not offering any solutions. But for the topic at hand, when black girls come together to code, that's not saying they shouldn't hangout with white people. You're implying a false conflict. That wouldn't be the case with something like affirmative action or racial quotas which does cause conflicts.