It does not matter how many Billions Bill Gates has given to minority charites, he does not make every promotion, MS is composed of over 39,000 employess. Racism is caused by some of these employees prejudices (nothing to do with Gates) acting on them.
If someone has been brought up to think that Black people like me are less intelligent then he is just because of the color of my skin, then the next time I am up for promotion with a White counterpart, even if I might be more qualified than he is, in my superiors eyes, Black people are just not intelligent enough to hold that position, and I will be denied the position. Now, this is Racism. How do I know??? I have experienced it in the Tech field.
All those who are saying that Racism does not exist in the tech field are saying so because they have not experinced it....and would't.
The same goes for stereotypes such as Black people being thought of as being lazy, violent and as one poster put it, the most criminals. Did you ever stop to think how someone felt when he walked into an office for the 1st day at works and was already being treated as if he were lazy or just came out of jail?? Always a suspect when something went missing? answering rediculous questions like "have you ever been to jail?"
Most times it is so subtle that I don't think that most white people realise what they are doing or what effect it has.. but then again thats just me being an optimst.
Yes, racism exists.
oh, and the $5B is for the hundreds of former and currnet MS employees, not just 7of them.
All our scince and technology is based on the works of a couple of scientists and engineers who lived about 100 years ago (more or less).
The Great Pyramids were built about 4,000 years ago. Clearly they had their own technology probably based on something thing entirely different from what we have our science based on.
we all know about the law of Gravity and Newtons laws of motion. These laws have alwasys existed but the way the were understood and implemented must have been different.
So I guess what I am trying to say is, it is very difficult to understand something looking from the outside.
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It does not matter how many Billions Bill Gates has given to minority charites, he does not make every promotion, MS is composed of over 39,000 employess. Racism is caused by some of these employees prejudices (nothing to do with Gates) acting on them.
If someone has been brought up to think that Black people like me are less intelligent then he is just because of the color of my skin, then the next time I am up for promotion with a White counterpart, even if I might be more qualified than he is, in my superiors eyes, Black people are just not intelligent enough to hold that position, and I will be denied the position. Now, this is Racism. How do I know??? I have experienced it in the Tech field.
All those who are saying that Racism does not exist in the tech field are saying so because they have not experinced it....and would't.
The same goes for stereotypes such as Black people being thought of as being lazy, violent and as one poster put it, the most criminals. Did you ever stop to think how someone felt when he walked into an office for the 1st day at works and was already being treated as if he were lazy or just came out of jail?? Always a suspect when something went missing? answering rediculous questions like "have you ever been to jail?"
Most times it is so subtle that I don't think that most white people realise what they are doing or what effect it has.. but then again thats just me being an optimst. Yes, racism exists.
oh, and the $5B is for the hundreds of former and currnet MS employees, not just 7of them.
All our scince and technology is based on the works of a couple of scientists and engineers who lived about 100 years ago (more or less). The Great Pyramids were built about 4,000 years ago. Clearly they had their own technology probably based on something thing entirely different from what we have our science based on. we all know about the law of Gravity and Newtons laws of motion. These laws have alwasys existed but the way the were understood and implemented must have been different. So I guess what I am trying to say is, it is very difficult to understand something looking from the outside.