From the staff of Black News:
Some “challenges faced by Black people in tech.” “Challenges include systemic racism, unconscious bias, lack of access to educational and career opportunities, and limited visibility and representation in the industry.”
Useful advice: Below is merely the author’s opinion supported by exterior links and their content.
Yes, racism migrates across America just as fast as new industries are formed across the country. African Americans have been living with it for almost two and a half centuries. One way to effectively and wisely combat racism is to vigorously leverage our collective intellectual capital, financial resources, and cultural assembly against it.
The quickly developing technology industry is categorically not immune to racism among its most advanced and admired industrial ranks. A vital internal component of those ranks is human capital. Trust me, if Black Americans don’t effectively put their financial resources behind the software developers and computer engineers that look like them, then some other corporation, government, or ethnic group will (i.e., Black Code Collective). The slave mentality will always serve as a buffer between intelligent Black people who strive to level the playing field and those with the financial resources and political powers to oppose it. The misfortune of Black Americans’ negligence and ignorance in the matter could have devastating effects for the broader Black community overall, particularly in terms of industry knowledge and even job losses. Changing the way we think can change the way we act in pursuit of a more desirable outcome. My late grandmother had a saying for this: “Don’t be a DUMBass, Negro! It makes all of us look bad.”
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