On: Why are there so few black tech entrepreneurs?

[shakezula]

> Secondly, nearly 30% of that 13% are living in poverty

This is literally all the evidence one needs to see the problem here. Their poverty is the result of decades of discrimination.

> "why are there so few white rappers"

False assumption. White people have pretty good representation in the rap game now, unlike black people in board rooms.

[goatinaboat → shakezula]

This is literally all the evidence one needs to see the problem here. Their poverty is the result of decades of discrimination.

Not necessarily. For example the Joseph Rowntree Foundation defines poverty as bottom-third. By their method the proportion of those “living in poverty” is fixed, regardless of overall standards of living. To be poor in America is still to be much better off than most of the world.

[charlesu → goatinaboat]

Why should I care that poor American are better off than poor Venezuelans when discussing poverty?