What’s commonplace and what’s not? Who’s entitled to enormous wealth and who’s not? What ought to be destroyed and what’s not? These are questions that Black professionals and users alike might naturally gravitate to while scrutinizing the professional platform LinkedIn. Why? Because they are self-reflections that offer valuable insight into certain biases, racist practices, and the lack of economic opportunity that frequently leaves Black people on the outside looking in.
What is it about LinkedIn and its aggressive exhibition of Black people earning a college degree or passing a bar exam? They are excellent achievements, but nonetheless, primitive goals. Why isn’t the same level of intensity of similar postings exhibited by the peer groups of Blacks on LinkedIn? More importantly, where are all the postings that highlight new Black billionaires and initial public offerings (IPOs) where the companies are either owned by Black people and/or led by Black CEOs? Where are all the postings of extraordinary professional “accomplishments” that Black folks can boast about from within both domestic and global business communities? So, who are we kidding here, LinkedIn?
This may also interest you: “Billionaires by Country 2024” | And this, “Of the nearly 3,000 billionaires in the world, only 16 are Black. That’s fewer than 1%. Of those 16, only two are women. Ten are Americans.”
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