Mark Zuckerberg Calls Out Racist Employees

CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the issue in an employees-only Facebook group on Thursday afternoon asking his mostly white staff to stop censoring messages of the social movement that addresses police brutality and socio-economic issues black communities face in America.

The deaths of black men, women and children – including in Cleveland Timothy Russell, Malissa Williams, Tanisha Anderson and Tamir Rice – killed by police, have ignited a national movement to protect and respect black lives.

They changed it into “all lives matter” through Facebook’s famous signature wall. But the issue appears to have been ongoing internally at the company for some time now.

The memo was posted on a private company announcement page on Facebook and obtained by technology blog Gizmodo. He now considers the act “malicious”, since the issue persisted after Zuckerberg expressed his disappointment.

A company spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Unfortunately, it’s also seen on places and institutions that people thought have overcome such.

Some are affiliated with the original Black Lives Matter network founded by Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza and their allies. It was created right after Trayvon Martin’s murderer was acquitted for his crime. Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder in 2013, sparking the movement and a nationwide discussion about racism. “It does, but we need less watered down unity and a more active solidarities with us, Black people, unwaveringly, in defense of our humanity”, Garza wrote in 2014.

Zuckerberg noted that Facebook had never curtailed what people could write on the walls, but that the company expected everyone to treat others with respect, and “crossing out something means silencing speech, or that one person’s speech is more important than another’s”.