Twitter to make June 19th a company wide holiday

[Anerdyblackguy]

Twitter, Square make Juneteenth a company holiday
Jun. 10, 2020 5:07 AM ETTwitter, Inc. (TWTR)By: Yoel Minkoff, SA News Editor

• "Both Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) and Square (NYSE:SQ) are making #Juneteenth (June 19th) a company holiday in the US, forevermore. A day for celebration, education, and connection," reads a tweetfrom CEO Jack Dorsey.
• The holiday commemorates the end of slavery in America.
• On that day in 1865, Union General Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation to the public in Galveston, Texas, a full two and a half years after it was issued by Abraham Lincoln.

 

[PortCityProphet]

Cool and all but How many black employees does twitter have?

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Cool and all but How many black employees does twitter have?

5 percent
Inclusion & Diversity Report September 2019

 

[PortCityProphet]

5 percent
Inclusion & Diversity Report September 2019

Emmmmbarrissssing

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[Originalman]

Cool and all but How many black employees does twitter have?

Have a black holiday and employ just 5 black folks....CEO silicon valley running company brehs.

 

[chief_keef_stan]

I read a comment which relates to this whole situation...

Black people need to learn the difference between:
1) Allies and Opportunists
2) symbolism and tangibles


nikkas are wayyy too forgiving and hopeful when it comes to cacs

 

[BaggerofTea]

They can hire more blacks to celebrate

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Oops

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I read a comment which relates to this whole situation...

Black people need to learn the difference between:
1) Allies and Opportunists
2) symbolism and tangibles


nikkas are wayyy too forgiving and hopeful when it comes to cacs

I've been saying this for the longest breh, but questioning any motives from the left gets you labeled a c00n Trump supporter.

Words don't mean shyt to me. If it ain't Reparations or efficient Donations then I don't care.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

They can hire more blacks to celebrate

Yeah like how does this help anything?

 

[BaggerofTea]

Yeah like how does this help anything?

Jobs? Income? Experience?

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

They can hire more blacks to celebrate

Yes hiring blacks as long as they're good high paying positions.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Jobs? Income? Experience?

No I meant them making this a holiday for its current employees

 

[BaggerofTea]

No I meant them making this a holiday for its current employees

Oh well you know Dorsey, twiiters ceo is making inroads with African tech companies so it's probably a way of display solidarity with the African diaspora in America