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Re:Tech Companies Still Aren’t Hiring Black Workers by protonimitate on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:44AM (#17265252)
I think that depends on how you measure success.

Strictly in business terms, sure they have more success than other groups, but I don't think (assuming here, no facts) they have over taken White people as the predominant group in leadership roles, high paying positions, or otherwise 'stakeholders'.

If that's not true, feel free to correct.

Re:Tech Companies Still Aren’t Hiring Black Workers by todd8 on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:10AM (#17265525)
See [1] and [2]. For example, 2015 median household income for Indian Asians is $100K while the same statistic for white non-hispanics appears to be $63K.

[1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/fact-sheet/asian-americans-in...

[2] https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/visualizations...

Re:Tech Companies Still Aren’t Hiring Black Workers by dahdum on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:44AM (#17265894)
They also have much lower crime rates, much higher entrepreneurship, and higher educational attainment.

Skilled immigration is awesome for the US.

Re:Tech Companies Still Aren’t Hiring Black Workers by alphabettsy on Friday June 08, 2018 @02:58PM (#17268629)
This tends to be true for all recent immigrants, 1st and 2nd generation immigrants have much higher acheivement.
Re:Tech Companies Still Aren’t Hiring Black Workers by noetic_techy on Friday June 08, 2018 @05:51PM (#17270021)
I think the other comments here point to the fact that this systemic racism argument doesn't hold up well against actual studies and data. It's an ill defined spectre that vanishes when you look closely.

> over taken White people as the predominant group in leadership roles, high paying positions, or otherwise 'stakeholders'

Is that the bar here? Median household income has always been the bar when talking about the success of racial groups, not the number in leadership roles etc etc. I mean, are we only supposed to be satisfied when 4.8% of all leadership roles are held by Asian Americans? What about their cultural preferences? What about regional populations?

The truth is actual a lot more nuanced. It essentially boils down to a cultural and pipeline problem:

The study:

http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race...

The liberal viewpoint:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-c...

The conservative viewpoint:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/28473/nyt-claims-groundbreaki...

The counter arguments logic is hard to ignore. The answer is probably somewhere in the middle.