This thread makes me sad....
I just got a promotion to Sr. Systems Engineer (formerly network engineer) a couple of weeks ago and was forced to move (part of the requirement) to Tulsa, OK.
In my company, the break down is like this...
7 people in Help desk - 4 black, 3 hispanic (1 woman), 0 white people
4 people in Information security - 2 persians, 2 white
2 Network engineers (1 is an arch) - 2 white
2 System engineers - 1 white, 1 black (me).
Management
1 Service Desk manager - white
1 InfoSec manager - white
1 Infrastructure manager - white
1 Director - white
1 CIO - white
You see a trend?
The lowest level of IT (helpdesk/service desk) has 0 white people. the higher you go up, the more all white it becomes.
And also, the people who have been in the company the longest are the servicedesk/help desk. So its clear they aren't moving up.
I agree fully with what @bdizzle is saying. I'm 28 now and I have quite a bit of money stored away. I think by the time i'm 30 i want to quit working for other people entirely and go into consulting for black owned businesses. I already do it on the side (i consulted for 3 all black american/nigerian companies last in 2015, not much but its a start). But i'm hoping to make a business out of this.
Now I'm not going to shyt on any of my brehs for working for a white boss while acquiring and honing their skillset. But there has to be an exit plan. Once you have that disposable income, years of experience wearing several different IT hats, you need to think about what you want to be doing for the next 40 years.
Sadly i know brehs who have been working service desk for 9 years +
They have technical engineering skillset to offer
At my old gig I was a BA and all of my coworkers were white or Indian, there were no more than 8 Black people on other teams that were programmers or BAs out of an office of a couple hundred people mean while all the help desk/EUC dudes were black.
That aside people are confusing a "few black people with a good job" to "blacks doing well in an industry". Asians and Whites dominate tech to the point where it is a assumed many times if you are interviewing against an Indian cat you aint getting the job lol. The Tech industry isn't racist, blacks just dont have the numbers of their side. Most of the blacks in Tech are not managers or execs who have decision power where they can make sure "their people" can get on. Lets be real if you just a Engineer or Programmer on a team you dont have pull to hire anyone, most you can do is have some ones resume forwarded, compared to Whites and Asians who have hire up jobs who can literally pull a "my nephew is graduating next fall so we will hire him in this role".
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@ CIA/NSA. The shyt I posted in this thread is entry level security knowledge. You would know that if you actually had a technology background 
you went too far
Im black as a heart of an aryan.
