Think Black: A Memoir

firm’s in-house lyricist,

brilliant young daughter, reckoned her

racism of the North: lack of housing, lack of educational opportunities, lack of health care, lack of jobs—the very same issues that plague race relations to this day.

trained Dehomag and Third Reich employees in the use of the Hollerith equipment; and maintained and repaired Hollerith machines to keep them in good working order.

who I am as a person, or who I am as a person of color? The question also lies at the heart of White privilege because, with Whites, it simply never has to be asked, for there is no double-consciousness. What pathology, then, arises when the soul’s dogged strength alone cannot keep these warring ideals apart?

targeting Black voters.20

Five years after his involvement with the Jamaica Project, he placed IBM in the service of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, using the lessons learned in creating Davenport’s racial identification system to help Hitler identify and exterminate Jews. The IBM punch card templates for the Jamaica Project on miscegenation and for Nazi Germany’s campaig

two years after he had finally recouped the extensive profits his company made in support of Hitler and the Third Reich. These are facts that IBM refuses to admit, secrets that the company would prefer forever remain hidden.11 From 1933 to 1945, prior to and during World War II, Watson and IBM worked tirelessly to help Germany automate every aspect

“Whatever you do, my son,” the voices said, “make your life count for us. . . . Whatever you do, my son, make your life count for us. . . . Whatever you do, my son, make your life count for us. . . .”

Lower Manhattan Security Initiative (LMSI), which installed CCTV cameras around the city, IBM used secret camera footage of thousands of unknowing New Yorkers, provided by the New York City Police Department, to refine IBM facial recognition software to search for and identify people by “hair color, facial hair, and skin tone.”51 It’s a