"Right, and I want black people to be massively, undeniably successful..." Contextually, the sentiment of wanting black leadership to pave the way and inspire

"Right, and I want black people to be massively, undeniably successful..." Contextually, the sentiment of wanting black leadership to pave the way and inspire black youth that success is possible is a noble cause. However, this sentiment exists everywhere regardless of race, religion, sex. People are proud to identify with successful group identities. The elephant in the room to be tackled in the face of "diversity initiatives" is in the unspoken, unwritten, virtually-non-litigable personal biases. The interviewee touches on it with how individuals can get a culture pass (e.g. sharing a love for the same band). The reality is that ethnic diversity is not a priority and a real risk factor in the beginning of a startup. It is the last thing people are thinking about. The focus is on building a great, productive team with relationships that work. Unfortunately, black and white culture has typically not worked in concert with each other to build social synergies, thus not having the culture pass becomes the unspoken tipping weight. Of course, this cyclical cycle does not make for very virtuous feedback loops. Up till now, we end up with having predominantly black companies(FUBU,BET,Sean Jean) and predominantly white companies or predominantly black/hispanic/etc groups operating within white companies. Many examples of successful non-white minorities who have overcome the typical challenges of their respective races appear to have assimilated to being white as well. The real conversation to have as a society is to ask how can we blend the elements of black and white culture together such that being black or being white allows for a mixed team to be comfortable in their skin with each other? Getting more successful black engineers, black executives, black CEOs, etc sounds great in an interview, but in the presence of real biases, all we can hope for is many wildly successful black companies where the white kids goto Stanford then Google and the black kids goto the black Stanford and goto the black Google with a small sprinkling of whites and blacks in the respective institutions.