perverse logic

The Urban League's 'State of Black America 2018' report complains thusly about the lack of diversity in the high-tech workforce:

'Black Americans are frequent users of technology, and have helped build social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram into the giants they are today. But they aren’t reaping the same economic benefits of the tech boom as white Americans, and low rates of black employment in the tech industry are a large part of the reason why.'

So blacks deserve a greater chunk of high-tech employment because they constitute a high percentage of users of these products. Really? By that logic, 80% of the players in the NFL should be white. What's wrong with that picture?

It doesn't seem to occur to these race-baiters that you need a certain kind of ability to work in this industry, and in Silicon Valley in particular you need a high level of that ability. Same as in the NFL. Skin-color quotas just aren't gonna cut it in this industry, regardless of how many blacks use Twitter and Instagram.

The other thing that people who complain about this never acknowledge is the high level of Asian workers in this industry. That's because the disproportionate number of East Asian people of yellow color and South Asian people of brown color doesn't fit in with the victimology narrative about all those oppressed 'people of color.' These people are successful largely because they're well educated. Funny how those two things seem to go hand in hand.