WSJ agrees

Jason Riley in WSJ agrees with what I have been saying about Jesse Jackson and about the fact that Silicon Valley companies are not racist:

"There's no talent shortage. There's an opportunity shortage."

That was Jesse Jackson's attempt to justify his current shakedown of Silicon Valley, where he's trying to impose de facto black hiring quotas in the name of expanding "opportunity" for minorities. Once again, Mr. Jackson has got it wrong. According to USA Today, whites and Asians make up around 90 percent of the staffs of Twitter, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn. "Of Twitter's U.S. employees, only 3% are Hispanic and 5% black," reports the paper. Let's leave aside Mr. Jackson's bizarre notion that Asian people—Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Bangladeshis, etc.—don't bring racial diversity to a workforce. Are these numbers proof that something is amiss? Not if you look at the pool of talent from which these companies are drawing workers. ... Silicon Valley's workforce does not reflect racial animus towards blacks. Rather, it reflects the rates at which whites and Asians are earning the requisite degrees from America's most selective institutions. Forcing Google and Yahoo to lower hiring standards in order to satisfy Mr. Jackson's definition of diversity would only slow innovation and make these companies less competitive. Let's hope they stand up to this shakedown.