Mark Luckie is a former employee of Facebook, and according to USA Today, he’s recently come out and said that racial discrimination is a reality both on the platform itself as well as on the company’s Silicon Valley campus. The accusation was formally made on a Facebook post he shared with management and employees earlier this month, which was made public on Tuesday. According to Luckie, this “should be a matter of grave public alarm, with the lack of representation and agency of black people inside Facebook directly affecting how black people on Facebook are treated.”
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“I wish I didn’t have to write it. I was determined to stay there and build,” Luckie told USA TODAY in an interview Tuesday. “I had to write what all the black employees are saying and feeling and we don’t feel empowered to speak up about.” Blacks and Latinos have always been underrepresented in major tech companies, and more and more of them have begun speaking out to hope to change the status quo and impact some serious change.
Source: Former Facebook Employee Alleges The Company Has A “Problem With Black People”
