Introducing the Cultural Leadership Fund
&gt;To accomplish this, we created a new fund with Limited Partners who are exclusively cultural leaders including Sean “Diddy” Combs, Shonda Rhimes, Will and Jada Smith, Quincy Jones, Kevin Durant, Chance the Rapper, Nasir Jones, Charles Phillips, Edith Cooper, John Thompson, Robin Washington, Richelieu Dennis, Shellye Archambeau, and more. The fund was raised by our partner Chris Lyons.<p>This just depresses the hell out of me. This is the list of pre-eminent African Americans they could come up with to lead a Technology initiative. That&#x27;s right black kids, you should look up to entertainers, business moguls, and basketball players. Those are your only role models. That is the heights to which you are capable of achieving. There&#x27;s no such thing as black scientists, engineers, or mathematicians; that stuff is for white folk.<p>It&#x27;s always the same. Every single &quot;diversity&quot; measure needs to be chaired by a hip-hop producer or a fashion designer. This is why blacks will never be seen as true equals in our society. We are a sideshow to these people, whose place in the world is to shuck and jive for their entertainment and mutual guilt appeasement.