Black people are constantly deemed as the majority consumers when it comes to technology, yet the minority of its creators and innovators. Far too many blacks are in front of the computer screen instead of behind it creating new features. It is almost impossible not to question why there are not a good amount of blacks leading the pack in Silicon Valley. Within this market there are next to no black versions of Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, or even Tom from Myspace.

Sunday night, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien tackled this issue with her fourth installment of Black in America: The New Promised Land – Silicon Valley. Throughout this hour-long premiere, O’Brien skillfully dispelled notions that black people just are not interested in the creative side of technology.

By following eight black tech founders, O’Brien showed a race of people eager to become innovators of new technologies. Today, social medias have taken over societies worldwide. Among them is of course Twitter. As a fairly new phenomenon this social site is becoming popular by the day, and blacks overwhelmingly populate this site. According to Edison Research’s annual report on Twitter, black people represent 25 percent of Twitter users. This is roughly twice their share of their population. As a people who are disproportionately represented in this market, they are surely playing into the age-old category of blacks supporting wealth instead of creating it. There are far too many instances of blacks participating in a phenomenon instead of creating one of their own.

This latest episode of Blacks in America was a breath of fresh air as it shed light on blacks that are serious on being the creators. All eight of these tech founders had ideas that could potentially could skyrocket into Facebook or Twitter popularity. Among them was BeCouply. Co-founder of this social app for power couple was Pius Uzamere. As one of the eight founders, I felt that he had one of the best concepts being that he knew his market, and he catered to them.

By providing an avenue for couples to connect with other couples, I know that it has the potential to become a household social app in the near future. And plus, other investors thought so as well for they were among only a few companies who received funding.

Today, black people must break this cycle of aspirations of becoming rich. They must realize that they must create wealth, and in order to do that they must go in business for themselves. Black in America has done an outstanding job on showing that there are those out there who realize this concept.

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• Kelcie C. McCrae, Editor-in-Chief