Where’s All The Color In Silicon Valley, Tech?

In an absolutely brilliant post titled “Startup America Should Look Like America” by Kalimah Priforce the brazen lack of anyone of color in Silicon Valley and tech startups is throughly examined and, ultimately, challenge the rest of us to take up the challenge. NewsTaco is listening! Check out this amazing excerpt:

Lately, there’s been a lot of focus on the role of women leading tech startups – as there should be.  When I look through the “about us” section of emerging technology companies, it’s typically men that I see.  Women take up very little room in the formation of web startups and technology firms in general.  I’m always happy to see initiatives and communities like Women in Tech and others who are bringing this issue to light and who are inspiring a generation of women to re-analyze what their role is in the technology world and how they see themselves taking the lead.  There are now incubators programs just for women with leading roles in technology startups.  I hope this is more than just a trend, but instead a real movement in the right direction.

However, when we get to other minorities like Blacks, Latinos, Southeast Asians and others, where is the shifting of our resources and attention?  Why isn’t anyone saying anything about it?  Who’s doing something about the lack of minority-led startups in the tech startup industry?

This missing link in the diversity chain starts even before we get to the startup founder.

Bam! Or, in Spanish, ¡sas! What I believe the author is getting at is to point out the blatant fact that the rest of us already know in just about every other industry: White men dominate. I for one, don’t hate white men. But that’s not to say I haven’t suffered under their indifferent thumbs in the past as a professional. Often, it’s the license to not talk about what’s missing that allows for women and minorities to continue to be excluded from the top, or in some cases, the middle — or from getting their foot in the door in the first place!

I highly encourage you to give the entire post a perusal because the future of this country, of the world, of prosperity, lies in technology. That means if you, or I, or Latinos in the U.S. want to be successful, we have to get in on technology.

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