By: Eric Westervelt
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Silicon Valley is great at disrupting business norms — except when it comes to its own racial and gender diversity problem. In an open letter last week, the Rev. Jesse Jackson sounded the alarm yet again. He urged tech giants and startups to speed up the hiring of more African-Americans and Latinos — “to change the face of technology so that its leadership, workforce and business partnerships mirror the world in which we live.”