Just really afraid of the Black Balaji to appear (and I'm personally eyeballing ~4 people who operate like him to a lesser extent) and the speed at which people will defend those people will be the basis of whatever next rift in the Black tech community will become.
The majority of Black tech folks are liberally aligned and have stronger ties to maintaining this ecosystem than attempts to actually change it (reform city). And this gets worse when you've decenter the Anglo-centric Black American tech scene (folks rising in the UK, Haiti by way of Florida, etc).
Having Black folks shill for cryptocurrency to the same communities that were affected by another industry-backed financial crisis in 2008 that still has people in shambles is SO wild to me but unsurprising (if you look at how whatever Black capital immediately left pre-integration communities to support white industries but then pointed back to tell poor Black folks to stand up for themselves, the echoes are loud).
It always devolves into an excuse for survival but it's an overtly an obsession with mirroring whiteness (in its obsession with wealth and individualism) that routinely gets me so mad and feeling powerless.
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