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

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677 points saeedjabbar | 1 comments | 16 Jun 20 15:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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contemporary343 ◴[16 Jun 20 21:28 UTC] No.23544419[source]▶
It's named after his only son, who passed away from Typhoid at 15: https://facts.stanford.edu/about/
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1. badcede ◴[16 Jun 20 21:49 UTC] No.23544673[source]▶
The zealots won't care.