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For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

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677 points saeedjabbar | 4 comments | 16 Jun 20 15:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.919s | source
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throwaway713 ◴[16 Jun 20 21:26 UTC] No.23544394[source]▶
Whoa! I didn’t realize Leland Stanford was racist. And blatantly so. Makes you wonder if the university should be renamed.
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1. mynameishere ◴[16 Jun 20 21:45 UTC] No.23544623[source]▶
Did you realize that Abraham Lincoln was a racist? Did you realize that almost everyone who hasn't undergone a lifetime of "anti-racist" propaganda is a racist?

Anyway, as to the subject of the article, I think it was covered in an episode of "The Jeffersons".

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2. triceratops ◴[17 Jun 20 00:42 UTC] No.23546282[source]▶
> Did you realize that Abraham Lincoln was a racist?

I think signing the Emancipation Proclamation, prosecuting the Civil War, and ultimately paying for it all with his life, give him a pass for his personal views that would be considered "racist" by today's standards. In Lincoln's case, actions really spoke far louder than words.

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3. atom-morgan ◴[17 Jun 20 11:38 UTC] No.23550218[source]▶
Wasn't one of his primary motives to cripple the Confederacy by signing the Emancipation Proclamation? In other words, he didn't simply do it because it was the right thing to do.
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4. triceratops ◴[18 Jun 20 04:19 UTC] No.23559765{3}[source]▶
Any move to cripple the Confederacy would be good right? Considering their aims?