I haven't seen a black american hired in tech in a decade. The last black american I saw in tech, they hired an indian manager, and the black guy was the first guy he fired.
Since then the only black guy I saw hired turned out to be from a suburb in africa.
My experience is the beneficiaries are people with well off parents from other countries.
Or white women.
To put it bluntly:
All of these programs are centered around the idea that you can spend your way out of this problem -- but its impossible.
I saw some bullshit article recently where increased welfare benefits in California found that the benefit to kids was like $48 for every $1 spent.
Instead of tearing apart their methodology (which I don't care about) -- I just wonder what the benefit of having two supportive parents and a supportive community around you is. Could you even put a number on it? I am sure it's magnitudes higher than 48:1, especially because it doesn't require any monetary spending whatsoever.
But that requires either side to address the root cause: a rotten fucking culture.