'I know that $10 million can't fix this,' Zuckerberg said in a personal Facebook post. 'It needs sustained, long term effort.'
Facebook is pledging $10 million to"efforts committed to ending racial injustice," the platform's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said Monday on his personal account.It comes as protests continue to grip America following the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, on May 25. A white former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with third degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Activists have been met with a heavy police response.
Zuckerberg wrote:"The pain of the last week reminds us how far our country has to go to give every person the freedom to live with dignity and peace. It reminds us yet again that the violence Black people in America live with today is part of a long history of racism and injustice. We all have the responsibility to create change.
"The organizations fighting for justice also need funding, so Facebook is committing an additional $10 million to groups working on racial justice.
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