I know smart blacks - one is my boss and one is the boss of our entire department in a Fortune 500 company.
Black are 13% of us - last I knew - so maybe they can achieve that representation in SV ...IF they would study and work for it.
Jessie Jackson should go pound sand.
Are they in engineering?
Point would be, it is a field where cunning and people smarts do not get you very far. Do not even get you through the first year of an engineering degree.
People make fun of engineers for a reason, our minds do work a bit different, and few can do what we do. Asians and Indians are superb at it, possibly a genetic quirk that way.