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A former Facebook employee on Tuesday lamented the under-representation of Black people in the social network teams, saying they were the subject of offensive remarks and behavior by other employees.
Mark Luckie, himself a black man, posted a message on his Facebook page that he sent on November 8 to all employees of the social network around the world, the day before leaving his position as "strategic partner manager" .
"Facebook has a problem with blacks," he writes, saying they are "marginalized."
The world's first social network was not immediately available to answer these accusations.
Mark Luckie, who does not explain the reasons for his departure, says black employees say, "I did not know black people were working at Facebook."
He also cites the example of employees who were "accosted more aggressively than necessary by campus security".
However, he says that the number of black employees has doubled, from 2% of the workforce in 2016 to 4% in 2018.
Carl Smith, posing, too, as a black Facebook employee, swept away Mark Luckie's accusations.
"Mr. Luckie does not speak on behalf of us all." Ironically, Mark and I started the same day at Facebook, "I'm still here," he wrote in a message posted on his Facebook page. .
He ensures to wear, at his place of work, T-shirts "Black Lives Matter", in reference to the movement having emerged after a long series of police burrs often involving white agents against men black.
"And I feel very comfortable doing it," he added.
A report on diversity published in July confirms this figure of 4%, noting that the number of black employees increases to 8% in sales activities.
"But we continue to have difficulty recruiting Blacks and Hispanics into technical and coaching jobs," said Maxine Williams, head of diversity.
© 2018 AFP
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