Kind founder to leaders who don't know how to address racism: 'Figure it out...even if it's not perfect.' (via CNBCMakeIt)
, have sent emails to employees and released statements regarding Floyd and ongoing racial injustice in America.Count among them Daniel Lubetzky, founder and executive chairman of snack company Kind. He sent anLike everyone else, Lubetzky watched as"I tried to write a note [to Kind employees] and words were completely failing me. It was so hard for me to write about this. I just couldn't finish that note," he tells CNBC Make It.
"Martin Luther King Jr. has said many great things, and this one resonates with me now: 'In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends,'" the employee wrote. "She had so much impact, because it's possible that had it not been for her, I would've not ended up writing my note and comforting my team members," he admitted.
In the email that Lubetzky sent, he addressed the killing of Floyd, systemic racism in America and the need to "build bridges to prevent the horrors of the past from repeating themselves."
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