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Er. Unless I missed something, you seem to have posted a link about population demographics. I lived in Oakland for five years, among a considerable number of
by georgieporgie 15y ago
Er. Unless I missed something, you seem to have posted a link about population demographics.
I lived in Oakland for five years, among a considerable number of black people. San Francisco, just a few miles away, has a sizable (but shrinking) black population. How many blacks do you suppose I worked with in tech? (It's two, if you're wondering, and one came to the company from D.C.)
Local demographic isn't very well correlated with professional employment, particularly in tech.
- pavanky 15y agoIf you are going to go anecdotal, here is one from me too. All Indians that I know who reside in / near Silicon valley are programmers, software engineers, computer scientists. There are dozens, if not hundreds of startups that have been founded / co-founded by non white people in the valley. There may be sweatshops exploting H1-Bs, but that is corporate greed rather than a race issue. So if you are going to say the valley has a race problem, then one of the following things is probably true 1) You only see black and white 2) You work / have worked in some nasty institutions 3) You want to point out that there is a bias against African Americans. I hope you were referring to #3