“‘Black lives matter’ doesn’t mean other lives don’t – it’s simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve,” Zuckerberg wrote in an internal Facebook post obtained by Gizmodo.
Zuckerberg expressed dismay that despite his “clear communication” at a company question and answer session the week before that such behavior was “unacceptable”, employees had continued to change the messages.
“I was already very disappointed by this disrespectful behavior before, but after my communication I now consider this malicious as well,” he wrote.
The slogan has come to signify the resurgent civil rights movement that has arisen in response to police killings of unarmed black men across the United States.
“All lives matter” arose as “black lives matter” gained viral popularity and is viewed by many as an implicit rebuke to the movement.
“Not just all lives. Black lives. Please do not change the conversation by talking about how your life matters, too. It does, but we need less watered down unity and a more active solidarities with us, Black people, unwaveringly, in defense of our humanity,” Garza wrote in 2014.
Like much of the tech industry, Facebook’s workforce is overwhelmingly white and male. Of the company’s nearly 5,500 employees, only 81 are black, according to its most recent diversity report.
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