Growing up as one of the only Black students in his schools, Peter Beasley felt accepted by his peers and didn’t experience a sense of being different as he set his own course for advancement. But as he entered college to study electrical engineering and later launched a career in IT, that began to change. “There’s a picture my son found of me in the sixth grade in San Antonio. I’m the only Black kid. How did [I] not see it then?” Beasley says. “In class, in the places my family lived, I was looking at all of us and I thought we were all ‘kumbaya,’ you know. And then in college and my corporat…