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August 24, 2020 at 9:47 pm
Pandering to marxist BLM. Most tech companies in Silicon Valley are predominantly South Indian, along with Americans are many ethnicity. It’s a marxist-CCP push, disguised as black American. It’s power grab.
alicia burney
August 24, 2020 at 9:51 pm
THE HIGH END COMPANIES WILL USE BLACK TALENT ✊????????OR BLACK CREATORS✨????️✨☝????TO BUILD A COMPANY TO THE HIGHEST POINTS OF EARNINGS BUT WILL NOT???? PAY THE BLACK PEOPLE THE FAIR SALARY OR WHAT IS OWED TO THEM✨????️✨✊????FIGHT FIRE???? WITH FIRE ????
MANY BLESSINGS ☝????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Slickpete83
August 24, 2020 at 9:56 pm
Silicon Valley doesn’t care about race , just your talent and profits you can make for the company , stock price & winning. if Space Aliens could program and code Silicon Valley would hire them ????????????
blackdonte24
August 25, 2020 at 12:17 am
How would you know? Do you code? Do you stay out here in Silicon Valley? More than likely, you don’t.
blackgurltech
August 24, 2020 at 10:22 pm
It’s almost as if they just don’t want Black people in particular to have a seat at the table. Meritocracy is BS. Playing the model minority card is also BS.
If some of these Black companies where pitched by non-Black people they would get funded. Period.
TheMagicJIZZ
August 24, 2020 at 11:09 pm
You Think liberals hate black people? Lmao. Unbased theory. How many White working class people do they found?
Truth is Black People haven’t founded any good or successful technology companies. Silicon valley obviously produces White greatness to the Fairchild semiconductor people to Apple to Facebook. Maybe White People are biased
But racist? Like the kkk
blackdonte24
August 25, 2020 at 12:19 am
@TheMagicJIZZ You don’t know what Silicon Valley produces. There’s more Asians and Indians working in some of those companies than white people. Talk what you know, jackass. LMAO!!!