1. A young 19 year old black man was mfg and selling the first RAID racks in the 1980`s out of Buffalo NY - met him at the first computer convention in San Francisco.
2. In Late 1980`s the first computer PC clone manufacturer in the East Bay north of Oakland was a black man and his son.
3. The biggest retail PC clone dealer in the East Bay in late 1980`s - early 1990`s Fruitvale district was a black man.
They were out there making there dough right in their own backyard monopoly markets.
The India/Chinese/Taiwan/Vietnamese clone makers in Fremont/Silicon Valley couln`t compete with them coz they didn`t have any grasp of the black PC market at all.
These American black PC dealers/mfg`s got first bids on all the govt [schools, county etc.] computer contracts vs. the foreign India/Chinese/Taiwan/Vietnamese. They had so much biz they couldn`t keep up with it. They all retired multi-millionaires.
The only hard disc recovery company at the first computer convention in San Francisco was owned an 18-year old black man from Sausalito, CA.
YUP.
Correct.
I have worked with several extremely competent black people in tech, there is no good reason there shouldn’t be plenty more.
I know some that as well, but they are the exception. There is no technical reason they should not go into high tech, but they certainly are not.
Excellent theory busters.