So much for Don't Be Evil.
Between Google Ideas providing a platform for the anti-Gamergate crowd who want to censor the internet and Google plowing money into a racist hate group, the company is really going full Social Justice Warrior.
Google.org is giving $2.35 million in grants to community organizations on the forefront of the racial justice movement that has seized the nation's attention.
The technology giant's philanthropic arm chose organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area taking on systemic racism in America's criminal justice, prison and educational systems, says Justin Steele, who leads Google.org's Bay Area giving efforts.
Google has been doing this for a while, but it was usually homeless and school funding, they haven't been subsidizing racism and hate before.
The official announcement of the grants is scheduled Tuesday evening at a screening of 3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets at San Francisco's Castro Theatre. The documentary explores the shooting death of unarmed black 17-year-old Jordan Davis outside a gas station in Jacksonville, Fla., in 2012 by a white man Michael Dunn.
I just can't predict what position it will take. Can you?
Google and other major technology companies are wrestling with dismal track records of hiring and retaining women and minorities in their workforces. At Google, seven out of 10 employees are men and most employees are white (60%) and Asian (31%). Latinos made up just 3% of the work force, African Americans 2%.
Wait. Asian-Americans aren't a minority?
Oakland's Ella Baker Center is receiving two grants of $500,000. The first will support Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, a fellow with the center who is working with the ACLU on a police violence reporting app.
Black Lives Matter is a racist hate group and Cullors has become notorious for everything from yelling at Democratic candidates to hating on Israel. She claims the US is conducting genocide against black people and rants about white supremacy.
So much for Don't Be Evil.
