Black and Latino men are rare in many circles of white collar corporate America, period.
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I live in Maryland now, but I'm from the Bay. The only reason why the DMV is a mecca for bougie black folks is because the public sector is the largest employer of blacks in America. PG County in the richest black majority county in America because of the federal government jobs and the trickle down effects of that money. But the whole DMV is richer than average as a whole because of the federal government jobs. But blacks are more represented in government jobs because the public sector is required to have "diversity" quotas. DC is one of the only cities where a black person can get a job fresh out of school paying six figures with a degree in African American studies.
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But the private sector can be a racist as they want in hiring practices without even giving an excuse. This is why a white man who is a convicted felon is just as likely to land a job as a black man with a clean record.
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Statistically, most people get jobs through their personal network of family, friends, co-workers, former co-workers, former classmates etc. White people often have access to better jobs through their personal social networks. The average white person's social network is 90% white. No bullshyt. White people surround themselves with whites in every aspect of their life from their social life to their work life so that they feel raceless and "normal" and aren't made to feel bad about their white privilege.
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Even though Asians are often employed in IT, there is a bamboo ceiling for Asian American professionals. They never make it the board rooms which are white as KKK meetings. Especially in Silicon Valley.
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And blacks who do make it to corporate America are expected to know the nuances of bland metropolitan white American culture. Blacks in corporate America are expected to get obscure 80's movie references at Halloween parties, know the names of white celebrities and know about white music. Blacks in corporate America carry stereotypes that they are angry, indignant and bitter like Wesley Snipes in
Jungle Fever. White people rather not deal with that shyt, so they don't hire brothers. Latinos born into poor immigrant situations are probably rarer in corporate America than black men. Latino males are disproportionately involved in gangs because the jobs available for Latino immigrants are always low paying under the table manual labor jobs.
But being from the Bay Area, I can honestly say that black men have it harder there than other places when it comes to getting a job, period. In the Bay, you are expected to speak Spanish or Chinese to get a job at many places. Blacks are extremely marginalized where I'm from in San Francisco. SF is probably the only major city in America to almost completely displace it's black population entirely. Once they take a wrecking ball to the remaining projects in SF, the only black people left will be the token homos and techies. Oakland has lost half of it's black population in the past 20 years.
But it's not impossible to break into Silicon Valley if you're black, you just need to hobnob with peckerwoods.
That was this dude's story:
The Real Story Behind Being Black In Silicon Valley
