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[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by branh0913

Starting a company doesn't put you on top. The VC firms are mostly all white. There are a handful of Asian VCs, but it's mostly completely white dominated. And even if their are Asian VCs, the biggest and most influential ones are still mostly all white. Asians are not even close to the level of influence whites have in America, not even close.

BTW, have you heard? Google has announced a project to mentor Black techies in Oakland and support their startups. That sounds like exciting news, and long overdue.

[misscross]

Originally Posted by 87112

Issues? I have seen many Young Asians girls who date/marry white men who could pass for their father even grandpa at times. Saw it yesterday a Chinese girl with a guy who probably in his late 50s to early 60s and she was most likely 28-35 years old. When was the last time you saw an Asian couple who totally mismatched in age and looks. It does not happen.

puhleeeeze... that "Chinese" girl is likely not Chinese at all, but some Thai, Laotian, Filipina or other woman from a much poorer/developing Asian country.

[branh0913]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

BTW, have you heard? Google has announced a project to mentor Black techies in Oakland and support their startups. That sounds like exciting news, and long overdue.

So what? It means nothing.

I can't stand diversity outreach programs in tech. For one it's insulting. Basically it's saying that black tech people aren't smart enough to make it on their own without assistance from someone else. And it's another situation where some other company picks winners and losers instead of the market. We have black tech people, and we have black engineers. There is no reason why all of these ingredients mixed together can't create a decent tech startup. The problem is that good black business men don't start tech startups. One will say it's due to a lack of capital and lack of funding. Which is fine, this is a good use case for blockchain tech. This way black people don't have to rely on banks.

I think the whole "Google as our savior" thing is just going to screw over the reputation of black tech professionals. I'm for one am against anyone solving black people's problems but black people.

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[cmswazey]

Originally Posted by branh0913

So what? It means nothing.

I can't stand diversity outreach programs in tech. For one it's insulting. Basically it's saying that black tech people aren't smart enough to make it on their own without assistance from someone else. And it's another situation where some other company picks winners and losers instead of the market. We have black tech people, and we have black engineers. There is no reason why all of these ingredients mixed together can't create a decent tech startup. The problem is that good black business men don't start tech startups. One will say it's due to a lack of capital and lack of funding. Which is fine, this is a good use case for blockchain tech. This way black people don't have to rely on banks.

I think the whole "Google as our savior" thing is just going to screw over the reputation of black tech professionals. I'm for one am against anyone solving black people's problems but black people.

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[skidamarink]

Originally Posted by branh0913

So what? It means nothing.

I can't stand diversity outreach programs in tech. For one it's insulting. Basically it's saying that black tech people aren't smart enough to make it on their own without assistance from someone else. And it's another situation where some other company picks winners and losers instead of the market. We have black tech people, and we have black engineers. There is no reason why all of these ingredients mixed together can't create a decent tech startup. The problem is that good black business men don't start tech startups. One will say it's due to a lack of capital and lack of funding. Which is fine, this is a good use case for blockchain tech. This way black people don't have to rely on banks.

I think the whole "Google as our savior" thing is just going to screw over the reputation of black tech professionals. I'm for one am against anyone solving black people's problems but black people.

Sometimes such programs, and white liberals, remind me of that famous post-Civil War painting of that white women handing out books and "educating" the freed slaves. It's all another form of the White Messiah.

I'm not a white messiah. And that being said, I have no sympathy for black people in today's job market regardless of how real any discrimination may be.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by branh0913

So what? It means nothing.

I can't stand diversity outreach programs in tech. For one it's insulting. Basically it's saying that black tech people aren't smart enough to make it on their own without assistance from someone else. And it's another situation where some other company picks winners and losers instead of the market. We have black tech people, and we have black engineers. There is no reason why all of these ingredients mixed together can't create a decent tech startup. The problem is that good black business men don't start tech startups. One will say it's due to a lack of capital and lack of funding. Which is fine, this is a good use case for blockchain tech. This way black people don't have to rely on banks.

I think the whole "Google as our savior" thing is just going to screw over the reputation of black tech professionals. I'm for one am against anyone solving black people's problems but black people.

It's about providing capital. Oakland is full of Black techies and engineers, and their startups, but they can't find capital. One of our regular posters here on C-D is involved in that, in fact. She said it's hard for them to access venture capital.

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