Big Talk From Big Tech On Racial Equity, But Not All Workers Are Buying It
More than 200 technology companies have issued statements supporting the advancement of racial justice, but black tech workers say internal policies and tech culture needs an overhaul first.
Big Tech companies â Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook â are writing mega checks to organizations like the NAACP and the Brennan Center for Justice. Twitter, TikTok, Spotify and Lyft have all declared Junteenth a paid holiday.
As the tech industry joins the growing national chorus supporting greater racial equality in society, some Silicon Valley black workers are responding with a degree of hesitation.
For one, it's about time, says Y-Vonne Hutchinson, a diversity consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area. But more than that, the soul-searching the tech industry needs to commit to on race issues
