None of that would have mattered if Gates was young black man in the 1970's. That's the point. Bill Gatres was young white man in the 1970's when he was trying to build Microsoft. Had he been blk with the same idea ? It would not have happened.]Bill Gates, as much as I dislike him and especially dislike Micro$oft... he was absolutely brilliant. He was clearly the smartest person in the room that fateful day with IBM. The deal he made changed the entire industry worldwide. He was also widely known to work up to 120 hours a week. After he stepped down Balmer damned near ruined the company with a cacophony of bad ideas that enabled Apple to surpass them.
Love it when white ppl try to argue that Elon Musk is a self made man & ignore that he was born white in apartheid S. Africa, so, yeah about that..Elon Musk crazy idea??.... are you fucking kidding?? His company is revolutionizing space travel because Obama gutted NASA, so sure - a private company stepped in. He exist because the government stopped investing in the technology. Then his EV business, same thing... existing automakers shit canned EV's back in the 1980s. If they wouldn't have done that... he wouldn't have done that either. He is also known to work 20 hours a day regularly.
Was racism a problem in 1970? You bet. And affirmative action was needed back then.
It is no longer needed. It is now racism against whites.
If a black Bill gates couldn't get done in 1970 what he did because he was black - that was wrong.
If a white Bill Gates today is passed over to make room for a black man for his job... that is not wrong?