A 22-year-old Oakland tech prodigy and entrepreneur became a victim of a shocking and disturbing act of racism while taking part in a summer program at the University of Cambridge. He responded by using his tech skills to call out the perpetrator while also taking the opportunity to educate and inspire.
"I not only realized I was the only Black man in the room but also that no one was going to speak up," Hofstetter explained. "Someone wanted to hurt me," he told KTVU.
"Within that 30 minutes the student has the opportunity to come forward and take accountability," he told the group and warned, "Otherwise I'm going to get my laptop from my room, hack into the network and trace the image back to the exact device the student used." Hofstetter, who’s behind a series of apps and programs designed to fight systemic racism, embraced this moment even further as a teaching opportunity.
In his impromptu and powerful speech, Hofstetter went on to share his background growing up in Oakland. He seized the moment to educate the group about his city’s roots entwined with theAnd he told the group that he celebrated the fact that he was speaking of his own experiences as a Black man only miles away from where author James Baldwin delivered his historic speech, "The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.
Hofstetter was only 16 when he founded his company GHTech, which was established with the goal of working with young people to bring diversity in the world of tech and to eliminate the digital divide.
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