The Fight for Workplace Diversity in Tech is Fruitless

The Afro-Tech should possess a mature level of insight to know diversity in technology is not resolved with somebody giving a black person a job. Over the years, we seen the outcome when we fight for jobs in certain industries void of diversity. The outcome is diversity-reluctant employers seeking out “black people that white people like” creating fake diversity for diversity sake.
As a result of fake diversity, white workers have to work with a mediocre black person just there because that person is black; the mediocre black person does not associate with the black community to refer more black talent and everybody end up hurt in the process from fake workplace diversity. Then we end up with white workers frustrated with a mediocre black co-worker; the mediocre black person writes an article on Medium about working while black at a tech firm and real black talent still do not have a pipeline or network to finding opportunities at tech firms due to fake diversity.
A skilled black person would not have a problem getting a job in Silicon Valley; they will just be exposed to white privilege politics and underpaid versus their counterparts. The real battle for diversity in tech is not getting a tech job; the goal is creating strategic global diversity to be a competitive organization capable of reaching a diverse consumer base. If these tech firms in Silicon Valley do not want to create competitive diversity and play games with fake diversity, that’s their problem.
The Afro-Tech goal should always be creating competitive diversity so the Afro-Tech can establish a global presence reaching a diverse consumer base. The Afro-Tech diversity objective is not for them to give a black person a job; the objective is for us to define problems and opportunities and create solutions and offerings for a global customer base. We become the solution we are looking for.
Here is the 21st century reality — decision workflow automation and artificial intelligence is going to obsolete a lot of tech jobs out there. In addition, cloud technology, virtualization, distributed ledgers and cryptosystems are changing a lot of paradigms in the current technology landscape. So fighting for a job currently going through planned obsolescence just doesn’t make a lot of sense.

What make sense for the Afro-Tech to fight for diversity in tech is become allies with robots and leverage the Fourth Industrial Revolution to simply take out anti-diversity elements in the technology industry.
The Afro-Tech can create marketplace platforms with the capability to self-fund immediately and self-managed using the blockchain distributed ledger technology to compete against venture capital firms who do not want to fund black people.
The Afro-Tech can create smart corporations that disclose all business activities on a blockchain ledger gaining trust and contributed insight by our stakeholders to obsolete the role of tech executives who don’t reach out to recruit black tech talent.
The Afro-Tech can engage in machine learning to understand every tech writer from every tech magazine to legally re-write and zero sum their articles since these tech magazines don’t want to cover black people in tech.
The Afro-Tech should not fight for Silicon Valley to give us a “diversity” tech job; the Afro-Tech should work with our robot friends to take their Silicon Valley jobs away from them and focus instead of creating competitive diversity to allow the Afro-Tech become a major contributor of value to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the global marketplace.
