[blahbhthrow3748]

When you live in a country that was founded on racism, Jim Crow and redlining, where the president is saying we need to "take back the suburbs" (for white people only), how do you react to that? "Not my problem?"

When you see 1% of tech founders are black, you think that's just their preference? They don't feel like founding tech companies? Or do majority white VCs not offer them funding, and their majority white peer group doesn't take them seriously? Or maybe it's because Black households have tens of thousands of dollars less wealth on average because of discrimination

[jamisteven]

How about 1% NBA players that are white?

[czzr]

It’s actually about a quarter white, but that aside - why do you think that blacks make up such a large percentage of the NBA?

[_qulr]

It's important to keep in mind (1) there are only a few hundred active NBA players on planet Earth and (2) most of them have been training hard at basketball since childhood. (Only the rare "big man" can get away with being a late starter.)

So when we talk about "preferences" here, it's not about adult preferences, it's about childhood preferences.

Most careers don't, and shouldn't, require you to choose them in childhood.

[blahbhthrow3748]

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