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> "Why should I feel proud of my accomplishments, when the accomplishments were spoon-fed to me by the company because of my skin color?" Because they're still

> "Why should I feel proud of my accomplishments, when the accomplishments were spoon-fed to me by the company because of my skin color?" Because they're still your accomplishments. White people hardly ever ask if they should be proud of their accomplishments when they live in a society that assumes they should and will succeed. > "If I were a white man with the same experience, I might not even be here?" If you were a black man with the same experience, you also might not even be there. Many aren't. Statistically, most aren't (in the sense that relative to the population, black men are still extremely under-represented in tech).

ChickenNugger 4y ago
> black men are still extremely under-represented in tech. Are they? Should be about 6% as black people are 12.1% of Americans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...) and this source: https://www.zippia.com/advice/diversity-in-high-tech-statistics/ https://www.zippia.com/advice/diversity-in-high-tech-statist... says black Americans (doesn't separate genders) are 7% of tech, and if 73.3% of which are men (same source) means 5.1% are black men, which is damn close 6%. Less than 1% off isn't "extremely under-represented".