Racism is very common in most parts of the world. Twitter, despite of being one of the most popular social media networks, is somewhat involved in racism. To be fair, racism should not be supported by such companies. According to The Guardian, only 49 people out of a massive US work force of nearly 3,000 is black. This tiny figure represents the black people of African Americans working for the company out of which 35 are men and 14 are women. The African American staff is accountable for only 1.7 percent of Twitter’s total work force.
This is not right by any means to label them as minorities. The president of the Rainbow/Push Coalition, Rev Jesse Jackson, has been in this field and campaigned ‘for tech companies to be more transparent about their lack of minority employees’. He further told The Guardian that tech giants that include Facebook, Twitter, and other Silicon Valley companies are biased over race and do not prefer black people. Furthermore, as the time passes on, black people are becoming more intolerant in such companies.
Hence, the progress of these companies is lacking in order to make their workplaces more diverse. According to The Guardian, “The stark lack of black employees comes despite the company’s repeated pledges to make its staff better reflect the diversity of its 302 million users – and as Twitter actively exploits its large number of minority users to bring in more advertising revenue.”
It is not only Twitter but the whole US discriminates between black and white and mostly when it comes to giving jobs. According to a plan announced last year, the company officials planned to build a platform they will be proud of. The vice president of Twitter’s diversity and inclusion, Janet Van Huysse, stated “We are committed to making inclusiveness a cornerstone of our culture.”
Moreover, Twitter has been quiet over the year and released brief information regarding employees’ ethnicity. As it is more revealed now, more than 93.8 percent of Twitter employees are either white or Asian whereas the remaining 180 people from the total work force belong to other minorities i.e. Hispanic, Latin, and American Indian etc. To be precise, the company has only 49 black employees, 68 Hispanics or Latino employees, 13 native Hawaiians, 3 American Indians, and 47 of two more races.
Rev Jesse Jackson adds “I am very disappointed. Black people are greater users of the product and capable of doing the jobs, but there has not been an adequate commitment to hire, train and maintain [black people].”
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