Facebook Empowers Racism Against Its Employees of Color

FB Blind
FB Blind
Nov 7 · 7 min read

Facebook still has a black people problem. And a problem with individual contributors who are not white.

Illustration by Malte Mueller/Getty Images and Enkhbayar Munkh-Erdene
Illustration by Malte Mueller/Getty Images and Enkhbayar Munkh-Erdene
Illustration by Malte Mueller/Getty Images and Enkhbayar Munkh-Erdene

This week, hundreds of African-American Facebook employees embarked to Menlo Park, California to be part of its annual Black@ event. This event was a global event, allowing us to hear directly from Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg about the importance of…

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