African American ex-Facebook exec says his colleagues act like he's going to mug them [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | November 27, 2018 | Megan Sheets

[C19fan]

A black former Facebook executive has accused the company of racial discrimination both within its Silicon Valley campus and on the social media platform in a scathing memo to colleagues just before his departure.

Mark S Luckie claims a lack of representation and agency of black people within Facebook's organization is directly affecting how black people are treated on the site.

In the memo shared publicly on Tuesday, Luckie writes: 'Facebook has a black people problem.

'One of the platform's most engaged demographics and an unmatched cultural trendsetter is having their community divided by the actions and inaction of the company. This loss is a direct reflection of the staffing and treatment of many of its black employees.'

[elcid1970]

When I was in Vietnam there were Yanks who claimed they could tell a north Vietnamese from a southerner, a Cambodian from a Thai, a Chinese from a Korean, etc. All pure hokum.

Then there was a `friend/foe recognition guide’ which showed the same bucktoothed Oriental in a conical hat but with six different captions:

Friendly Vietnamese peasant
Hardcore Viet Cong
Neutral Cambodian
Ethnic Chinese local
North Vietnamese officer
Your local PX manager

[Rurudyne]

I said “their”, not some other guy’s.