That whole thing where your opinion is overlooked for a second (usually white male) opinion happens to you if you're not white or Asian or ridiculously gifted

That whole thing where your opinion is overlooked for a second (usually white male) opinion happens to you if you're not white or Asian or ridiculously gifted in programming too. The first few time it happened, I thought it was just kind of odd and my fault in someway, but after 10 years in the industry, I can tell you categorically that its not a fluke. Reminds me of this quote ... "White men have to prove their incompetence. Everyone else has to prove their competence" --- Mike Perham That is not to say that everyone in tech is racist and/or sexist, I think its more of an unconscious bias, much the same way someone (even women) might walk into a car parts store and walk right past the female attendant to a male one to ask a question about car parts or how a white kid on a basketball court might be picked last because there are black kids on the court. I think it is pretty insidious and eventually I think we will figure out a way to help our industry get rid of these unconscious biases