For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by x86_64Ubuntu on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:43PM (#23547138)

You make it sound like when those programs and patterns were ended, that the black community recovered overnight. Your post also acts as if the driving ideas of racism that lead to blacks being excluded from or vulnerable to the things you listed ended overnight also. And your post mentions how racism made the social landscape far more adversarial to blacks with things such as the War On Drugs used to target the black community.

Honestly to make such a post, one would have disregard network effects and intergenerational wealth transfer to a malicious level.

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @08:15AM (#23550450)

I don't think you're being fair nsporillo (the GP commenter) asked what societal structures were [currently] a specific hindrance based on race. Noting that it appeared that the entire legal structure of society was the target.

In response someone posted about a load of laws, which it turns out are all historic.

They didn't say intergenerational wealth transfer (which is a poor-person issue not a race issue per se - though it has a non-representative racial profile for sure).

I'm not sure what you're suggesting with "network effects", presumably people in established positions of power can maintain a discriminatory hold on those allowed to join the group?

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