Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Silicon Valley: A Shocking Lack of Diversity
Aired: 2021-05-12
Duration: 07:30


=== Tech Industry's Diversity Dilemma (07:20) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:08]  Amazon, the internet retailer, is the latest tech company to release shameful employment statistics on race.
[00:00:16]  Jesse Jackson had been haranguing Amazon since May, and in September he threatened"action" if the company wouldn't fess up to how few blacks it hires.
[00:00:27]  Now we know the dismal truth.
[00:00:30]  71% of Amazon's managers are white and 18% are Asian.
[00:00:36]  Only 4% are Hispanic and only 4% are black.
[00:00:41]  Unlike other tech companies, Amazon wouldn't even say how many of its engineers are black or Hispanic.
[00:00:48]  Those numbers would probably have been even more scandalous.
[00:00:53]  "I am disappointed," says Jesse.
[00:00:58]  All the companies that have coughed up numbers on tech workers have disappointed the Reverend even more.
[00:01:04]  Here's Facebook.
[00:01:06]  53% of the programmers are white and 41% are Asian.
[00:01:11]  Hispanics are a measly 3% and blacks are just 1%.
[00:01:16]  Well, Facebook is very sorry.
[00:01:19]  We have a long way to go, but we're absolutely committed to achieving greater diversity.
[00:01:25]  Says Maxine Williams, the company's global director of diversity.
[00:01:30]  Here are the numbers for Yahoo's technical workers: Whites are 35%, Asians 57%, Hispanics 3%, and Blacks 1%.
[00:01:41]  And then finally, here are Google's figures for tech worker diversity: 60% White, 34% Asian, 2% Hispanic, and just 1% Black.
[00:01:53]  In all these companies, about 85% of the techies are men.
[00:01:59]  Another horrifying fact.
[00:02:01]  Google is very sorry, too.
[00:02:04]  It gives every employee diversity training to help uncover hidden biases, and it assigns what it calls"Googlers in Residence" to black colleges so that they can recruit blacks full-time.
[00:02:18]  But it's the same sad story all across Silicon Valley.
[00:02:23]  A lamentable lack of blacks, Hispanics, and women.
[00:02:28]  As Jesse Jackson will tell you, this is proof of discrimination.
[00:02:33]  But it's an odd kind of discrimination.
[00:02:36]  As you'll have noticed, but as the hand-wringers never seem to notice, there must be very sharp discrimination in favor of Asians.
[00:02:46]  Given their percentages in the American population, when it comes to high-tech jobs, An Asian is seven times more likely than a white to be working at Google.
[00:02:57]  At Facebook, Asians are ten times more likely to get these jobs, and at Yahoo they are 21 times more likely than whites to be engineers or programmers.
[00:03:08]  Tech companies are silent about this shocking discrimination, and not one has promised to correct it.
[00:03:16]  But when it comes to blacks and Hispanics, the industry sees a crisis.
[00:03:21]  Apple's CEO Tim Cook says,"I'm not satisfied with the numbers.
[00:03:27]  We've been working hard for quite some time to improve them." Mitch Kapoor, the legendary creator of Lotus 1-2-3, frets about"fixing Silicon Valley's diversity problems." His wife, Freda,
[00:03:42]  shown with him here, complains that Silicon Valley is"steeped in the pernicious myth of the meritocracy." The pernicious myth.
[00:03:53]  But seriously, does anyone, even Jesse Jackson, really believe that there are thousands of first-rate lady programmers who are black and Mexican, but that the entire tech industry hires mediocre white and Asian guys instead?
[00:04:10]  Every company?
[00:04:11]  If there really were swarms of unemployed black and Hispanic tech wizards out there begging for work, I bet you could hire them for something less than the prevailing Silicon Valley pay rates.
[00:04:23]  Maybe way less.
[00:04:25]  How come we've never heard of a single company snapping up all this desperate cut-rate talent and then making boom-time profits?
[00:04:33]  And if the tech billionaires are secret racists, they sure do a good job of hiding it.
[00:04:40]  In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg, who runs Facebook, Gave $100 million to the overwhelmingly black Newark School District.
[00:04:49]  But his company shuts out blacks and Hispanics?
[00:04:53]  Yahoo! is run by a woman, Marissa Mayer.
[00:04:56]  Even as a big-time executive, she mentored children at East Palo Alto Charter School, which has hardly any white students at all.
[00:05:05]  She a secret bigot?
[00:05:07]  Bill Gates has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on African children.
[00:05:12]  Is Microsoft run by closet white supremacists?
[00:05:16]  I guess so.
[00:05:18]  We're supposed to believe that the whole industry discriminates shamelessly against blacks and Hispanics but, oddly, discriminates in favor of Asians.
[00:05:27]  It's baffling.
[00:05:29]  Google's Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Nancy Lee, is determined to solve the problem but doesn't know what causes it.
[00:05:38]  As she explains, There's a tremendous curiosity within our workforce about why we look the way we do.
[00:05:47]  Well, Nancy, let me explain it to you.
[00:05:50]  Asians are better at programming than whites.
[00:05:53]  Whites are better at it than Hispanics.
[00:05:56]  Hispanics are better at it than blacks.
[00:05:58]  And men are better at it than women.
[00:06:01]  And, Nancy, I don't mean to shock you, but the evidence is overwhelming that these differences are innate, genetic.
[00:06:10]  That is why every single high-tech company looks just like yours.
[00:06:16]  Silicon Valley is packed with smart people.
[00:06:19]  Are we supposed to believe that not one in the whole industry has figured out that Asians make better engineers than blacks?
[00:06:26]  Phooey. Plenty of them know.
[00:06:29]  They're just too frightened to say so.
[00:06:32]  It would be great if the CEO of Apple would quote IQ studies.
[00:06:36]  When he's asked, how come there are no blacks on the iPhone 7 design team?
[00:06:41]  But I'm afraid that's fantasy.
[00:06:44]  But wouldn't it be refreshing if just one high-tech exec would say, first of all, Jesse, it's none of your business who we hire.
[00:06:52]  We hire the best people we can, and if they turn out to be white and Asian, get used to it.
[00:06:57]  Now, buzz off.
[00:06:59]  More fantasy, I suppose.
[00:07:02]  Maybe someday a Chinese CEO or an Indian will say that, but a white man?
[00:07:08]  No chance.

=== I Hate Admitting (00:21) ===

[00:07:09]  White people have let themselves be so browbeaten and demoralized that they refuse to admit even the most obvious facts if they violate racial orthodoxy.
[00:07:20]  They'd rather look fools than step out of line and tell the truth.
[00:07:25]  I hate ever to admit that Eric Holder is right, but he's right about one thing.