The Niggerization of Silicon Valley: How did we get here?

 How did we get here?

Falasha Ali 

 

In the Science & Myth of Melanin by Dr. T. Owens Moore, Dr. Moore documents Frances Cress Welsing's African-centered perspective on melanin.  In 1969, Dr. Welsing conceptualized a provocative theory called the "Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation."  Essentially, Dr. Welsing believed that white people have developed and currently maintain a global white supremacy system because of two main points that relate to melanin;

 

White people feel genetically inferior because they lack melanin;

White people realize they are a minority population and numerically inadequate. 

 

According to the late Dr. Welsing, these two factors drive the genocidal behavior of white people toward non-white people.

  How did we get here?  The main reason is the structural problem of racial bias and white supremacy taking place in Silicon Valley.  In fact, not long ago, Stanford Professor and MIT-educated Dr. William Shockley took great pleasure in cultivating young fertile minds in Palo Alto, California.  "Dr. Shock" taught his students to believe Black people with their God-given style, innate spirituality, physical prowess, and natural rhythm are "mentally inferior."

  At the time of his tenure Doc Shock was a leading thought leader at Stanford University.  Deep inside the "digital cocoon" that is Silicon Valley, in theory and practice, the most vulnerable tech entrepreneurs today rest on the brink of disambiguation.  The truth is simple.  In Silicon Valley diverse, minority founders have been virtually & literally "Black-balled" by a multitude of "Bull Conner-ish" stakeholders, BIG TECH corps, angels, and VC's.  Each of these entities maintain a firm white-knuckled grip on the vast pools of investment capital flowing through Silicon Valley.