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African Americans Make Up Less than 2% of Facebook and Twitter Staff
Despite the rainbow nature of their users, recent employee statistics from Twitter and Facebook reveal a staggering lack of workforce diversity.
Twitter employs only 49 black people out of a total US workforce of 2,910. This means that African Americans represent a meagre 1.7% of Twitter’s US staff.
Facebook, which has actually doubled its number of black employees, fares even worse, with African Americans representing less than 1.5% of the social networking company’s 5,479 US employees, according to a report released Wednesday.
As Pew Center Research shows, black people use Twitter disproportionately more than white people: 27% of black adults and 25% of Hispanics use Twitter, compared to just 21% of white people. Added to the fact that African Americans account for 13.6% of the US population (2010 US census), these figures reinforce Silicon Valley’s image of white homogeneity.
The Guardian reports on the Twitter figures:
The Rev Jesse Jackson, president of the Rainbow/Push Coalition, who has long campaigned for tech companies to be more transparent about their lack of minority employees, told the Guardian that black people are “becoming intolerant” of Facebook and other Silicon Valley companies’ lack of progress in making their offices more diverse.
[Twitter’s] stark lack of black employees comes despite the company’s repeated pledges to make its staff better reflect the diversity of its 302 million users – and as Twitter actively exploits its large number of minority users to bring in more advertising revenue.
“I am very disappointed,” Jackson said. “Black people are greater users of the product and capable of doing the jobs, but there has not been an adequate commitment to hire, train and maintain [black people].
“Some people call it ‘Black Twitter’ because we over-index so much, but they still don’t hire more black people. We are becoming intolerant with these numbers, there’s a big gap between their talk and their implementation.”
Jackson said Twitter “should set a timetable to make their workforce look like the market place, and a commitment to make the board of directors more diverse”.
He said that at the moment, Twitter is benefitting from black people’s love of its medium – which often leads to black issues trending worldwide – without paying enough back to the community. “They hire people they know, they trust and like,” Jackson said. “We’re not in that the circle.
The full article can be read here and the Guardian’s Facebook commentary can be read here.
—Posted by Roisin Davis
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Source: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/african_americans_make_up_less_than_2_of_facebook_and_twitter_staff_2015070/
Zionists only like to use African-Americans to stir things up. They hate African-Americans. They hate Goyim more, however. That is how they stir up the hate wars between whites and blacks. They fund the debacle on both sides, sit back and watch the show.
I used to think that the Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. were entirely responsible for the slave trade. Later, others said, “Oh, the leaders of different African nations sold them off”. Now, I learned that the Zionists orchestrated the whole evil debacle in the first place. They are the demons that are leading us to ruin. They are the true slave drivers.
They only know how to pretend. They pretend to be human. They pretend to be the original Jews of Israel. They are a gang of thieves. They steal everything they can. Identities, nationalities, cultures, land, homes, children, minds, etc. They are way worse than the loosely organized band of gypsies. These demons are very well organized.
The poor Jews from Africa were allowed into Israel only to be discriminated against and treated like 2nd class citizens along with the rest of the refugee Jews of various nationalities in their disgusting apartheid country. They hate Jesus, yet they use the Bible to justify their brazen disregard for others (as in children of Israel)??? WTH??? They got their Torah, their Taliban, um – I meant Talmud. They got their creepy Kabbalah crap as well. They suck. They are not “chosen” by anyone except their father, Lucifer.
It’s time for the rest of the world to realize this.