Solidarity Comes After Justice: The “Affirming” BLM Statement Tech Leaders Need to Make

Abril Garrido Chivato
The Startup
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11 min readJun 14, 2020

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It troubles you and weighs on your conscience — the police killing of George Floyd and ensuing eruption of outrage gathered in the streets across the world. Also, perhaps there is some commingled discomfort. In the remote work of the Covid-19 era, you realize how easy it was to forget how few were the Black faces in the office.

Abril Garrido Chivato
The Startup

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