Where are the young black kids in tech? Blacks of any age are sorely under-represented in tech. So are Latinos, although not quite as bad. It's a very white (and Asian/Indian) world we live in.
I'm so glad to see things like Black Girls Code. These kids need mentors that aren't sports stars, or music stars. Oddly enough, music is one industry I always remember running into a lot of black people in - Macs and ProTools used in music production.
> Oddly enough, music is one industry I always remember running into a lot of black people in - Macs and ProTools used in music production.
That's not odd at all. Blacks are hugely overrepresented in the music industry (as well as the pro sports industry).
You gotta love how American society is always collectively wringing its hands about how there aren't enough black people in STEM, but nobody mentions how underrepresented Asians are in the entertainment and pro sports industries.
They matter because they represent a big win for a select few and people feeling they do not have many choices will discount the "few" and invest all their eggs into those two baskets and most often than not fail.
Blacks are something like 12% of the US population, so around 35 million people.
Pro football has around 80 men on the roster (more than any other sport), and 32 teams (again, on the high side), so you're looking at less than 3000 athletes employed by that one sport. Even if all the athletes were black, which they're not, that number is less than one in a thousand of the total population.
'There are jobs for blacks in pro sports' is a complete canard that needs to be abandoned.
I'm so glad to see things like Black Girls Code. These kids need mentors that aren't sports stars, or music stars. Oddly enough, music is one industry I always remember running into a lot of black people in - Macs and ProTools used in music production.