So it is with racism in our society and institutions. It starts with housing and education. Housing is still as racially segregated as it was in the 1970s, and that leads to massive differences in average opportunities. Which leads to familial wealth gaps, and which leads to further disparity, because families that can't help a member that has a broken car, for example, can set back a person early in their career when they get fired because of it. Which leads to further snowballing of opportunity and financial pain. It's like starting the game of Monopoly when a bunch of the players have had dozens of turns of head start. Even if the game is "fair" in that there are no explicit barriers to buying and selling a property or paying rent when landing on somebody else's, it's unfair because the staring financial position was quite different.
So this can't all fall on tech companies, of course, but as major pillars of modern society, they bear some responsibility of fixing the problems that persist.