Posted on 01/22/2025 10:05:19 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
...former Facebook diversity executive Bärí A. Williams criticizes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to disband the company’s DEI programs, signaling a shift in priorities as he aligns with the incoming Trump administration.
Williams, author of Seen Yet Unseen: A Black Woman Crashes the Tech Fraternity and the founder of Facebook's Supplier Diversity Program, published an opinion piece on MSNBC on the shutdown of Meta’s DEI initiatives. Williams expressed her disappointment in the abandonment of Meta’s Supplier Diversity Program, an initiative she spent countless hours developing. She writes, “From October 2014 to October 2016, I spent nights, weekends and even part of my maternity leave, creating the supplier diversity program. And now it’s defunct.” The decision to dismantle the Supplier Diversity Program comes as a surprise.”
Williams believes that with the departure of Sheryl Sandberg (COO 2008 - 2022) and was a champion of content moderation, sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusion, “the buffer was removed. Zuckerberg, who’s now evangelizing on the virtues of ‘masculine energy’ in companies, has reportedly blamed Sandberg for the existence of the company’s diversity initiatives and said she was the reason why he couldn’t disband them.”
Williams said “Meta abandoning all companywide DEI programs would mean abandoning efforts to recruit at schools typically outside of their funnel — the Grace Hopper Conference, the AfroTech Conference, historically Black colleges and universities and state schools — so it’s clear diversity is not an asset to them. Zuckerberg must have seen Elon Musk of X questioning the talent and intellect of HBCU students; by eliminating DEI programs, he’s essentially doing the same.”
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Are other FReepers heartbroken, too?
Maybe Williams should found her own social media company and manage it as she sees fit. What sour DEI grapes and whining -- "I worked SO hard creating Facebook DEI and that bastard destroyed it!"
Zuckerberg, who’s now evangelizing on the virtues of ‘masculine energy’ in companies -- HELL YEAH!!
A Sister with an attitude. Now where have I seen that before?
“A Sister with an attitude.”
Yeah, it’s a FIRST, isn’t it?
Boo hoo! 😏
Merit and skills are back!! DEI was an idiotic pipe dream of the Obozo and in a free country it would’ve never worked. The operative words there are “free country” and the Obozo tried to trash that to.
Bärí?????
You mean she’s going to have to get a REAL job now?
Kind of looks like “Bärfí” to my eye.
She like to mix her umlauts and diacritics.
Yes, a REAL job using her NONEXISTENT skills. Good luck with that.
..former Facebook diversity executive Bärí A. Williams
She might be able to get a job as a Wallmart greeter. On second thought, she’s not qualified for that either. That job requires a person to be pleasant.
She like to mix her umlauts and diacritics.
A fun mind game is picturing her in that Walmart greeter role and then you walk into the store. Wow!!
That would be fun. I have a few things I might like to say to her.
DEI experts, did we know there were such a thing? An expert on how to exclude white people from all walks of life
B’äȓíOr...⏚⏃⍀⟟
Sandberg spent most of her time promoting herself and her book.
She would have been fired by me after the first 3 months of that nonsense.
“”DEI Expert Bemoans the Death of ‘Diversity’ Programs at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta””
Racist, bigoted DEI Expert Bemoans the Death of ‘Diversity’ Programs at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta
There, fixed it.
There is no such thing as a DEI expert.
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