Twitter paints #blacklivesmatter on office wall

[think]

Source: USA Today

Twitter has painted #blacklivesmatter on a wall at its San Francisco headquarters, placing the company squarely into the national debate about excessive force used by police with blacks.

Staff at Twitter shared a picture of the wall on Thursday. The same evening, Twitter hosted a forum on increasing diversity at tech companies. It included the ex-CEO of the NAACP, Benjamin Todd Jealous; partners at Kapor Capital, a socially-minded incubator based in Oakland, Calif.; and former vice president Al Gore.

Twitter's own workforce is similar to the rest of Silicon Valley -- largely white or Asian and male, a point that wasn't missed by some viewing the company's themed wall over Twitter. But its co-founder @Jack, who is from St. Louis, and other employees have been more vocal about issues of race and ethnicity.


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/05/twitter-blacklivesmatter-tech-diversity/19935443/

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. And so....... it begins.........n/t

[okaawhatever]

2. Here is a pic of the wall:

[Jesus Malverde]

3. White, Asian men rule the roost at Twitter

BTW not mentioned in the article was this new hashtag painted over #SAVEOURGIRLS, which itself painted over #KONEY2012



#HASHTAGACTIVISM

[uncle ray]

4. it's nice to see that it was actually painted on.

and not a sticker.

actual sign painters are a dying breed.