One thing you definitely see is the problem with professional networks. They're pretty racially divided. You walk around the tech hubs in Detroit and you'll fin

One thing you definitely see is the problem with professional networks. They're pretty racially divided. You walk around the tech hubs in Detroit and you'll find that one is primarily white, and another primarily black. Networking events are often pretty similar. I don't think a lot of the lack of hiring of minorities in Tech Startups in Detroit is anything malevolent, but more a product of a lack of awareness of people who exist outside their professional networks. There are a number of great colleges in the Detroit area (Wayne State, Lawrence Tech, UofD Mercy) but I've rarely seen people get hired out of those colleges and into the tech startups around town. It's often the interpersonal networks which tend to align themselves around the race and class of the person hiring. tl;dr It's not about racism, but about personal networks that often align with race