AfroTech 2019: Morgan DeBaun Reminds Oakland It’s Cool To Be Black In Tech - Video AfroTech 2019: Morgan DeBaun Reminds Oakland It’s Cool To Be Black In Tech A thought about AfroTech in Oakland as I watch the enormous celebration of blacks in tech in my town from 3,000 miles away. I have to thank AfroTech and Blavity Founder Morgan De Baun for putting on AfroTech in the heart of Downtown Oakland. Oakland needs to see this: something that many Oaklanders really haven't wanted to see: blacks in tech. As much as residents like me have been in tech, the rest of Oakland acts like it doesn't want to see us. Sadly, and at the same time, thankfully, it took a complete outsider to come in to Oakland, and turn it's collective head to pay attention to us. As AfroTech meets, a group of long-time black Oakland residents that became homeless because of the wave of illegal evictions, were forced out of their camp on Wood Street in Oakland. So, if you're wondering what happened to