Black Facebook staff describe workplace racism in anonymous letter
by Mario Koran from Technology | The Guardian on (#4V2SS)
A group of Facebook workers say they are treated as if they 'do not belong' at the company
One year after a former Facebook manager accused the company of having "a black people problem" - failing its black employees by allowing the proliferation of a hostile workplace culture - an anonymous group of tech workers at the social media giant have penned a letter in which they argue that the problem has only metastasized.
"Racism, discrimination, bias, and aggression do not come from the big moments," they write. "It's in the small actions that mount up over time and build into a culture where we are only meant to be seen as quotas, but never heard, never acknowledged, never recognized, and never accepted."
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