“What percentage of blacks are electrical or software engineers?”
FAMU is churning out black electrical and software engineers who graduate with a 4.0. I’ve interviewed several elctricals and they had no understanding of the material they were supposed to have learned. I asked a fellow employee and adjunct professor why. He said that if he did not pass them along he wouldn’t be back next term. So, they have the paper but in Silicon Valley, they must perform with the best of the best. In my experience that’s no longer people from the US university system. The astonishing thing is that foreign born and trained engineers, who learned English as a second language frequently write better reports and letters to customers than do those who were born here, Caucasian or any other race. Our education system has deteriorated in just the last 20 years to sub-standard.
Actually, I'd ask the opposite question: what percentage of electrical or software engineers are black?
You can't live in San Jose unless you have an upper-middle class income --- the housing costs are too high. And, the only people that are going to pay those costs are the people that want to live close to work. Since the upper-middle income jobs in San Jose/Silicon Valley are largely technological, that's who you should expect to live there.
If you accept my premise, the question should be: why are blacks under-represented in the technology professions?
The laws of mathematics and physics are obviously racist.
Silicon Valley isn’t that diverse, it’s mostly Chinese and Indians who are doing the work. There is a small layer of whites who are running things in management and getting the bulk of the money.