While Black America has become depressed by the seeming racial war going on - with the high profile Trayvon Martin case, the Wendell Allen case in New Orleans, and Good Friday shootings in Tulsa - white multi-billionaires have been treading ahead to increase their economic stance.
Facebook gobbled up Instagram, a company that was not reporting any profits, for $1 billion. The Associated Press (AP) has partnered with Bambuser, a live streaming startup. Google announced that it will buy TxVia, a mobile payments technology company.
The only news about African Americans is that we are being gunned down in the streets, and our response has been marching and praying in front of police department offices.
"If there is a racial war, you know who is going to win," said one Black, 25 year old, recently unemployed college graduate. "If we are still alive when all the dust settles, the next phase of development will be who will have the best invention to reach the masses."
How many Blacks are coming up with cutting edge digital solutions that will be of value in this new, technological age? Please comment.
Dr. Darity said: Neil deGrasse to name one. I might also mention a couple of brilliant black statisticians: Ben Hansen at U of Michigan and Kobi Abayomi, most recently at Georgia Tech.
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