Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not pleased that employees are defacing the phrase “Black Lives Matter,” which was written on the company’s famous signature wall.
In a private memo Thursday that was obtained by Gizmodo, Zuckerberg called crossing out “Black Lives Matter” and writing “all lives matter” over it is “disrespectful” and “malicious.”
“Black lives matter doesn’t mean other lives don’t,” Zuckerberg wrote. “This has been a deeply hurtful and tiresome experience for the black community and really the entire Facebook community, and we are now investigating the current incidents,” he added.
Though there are no rules about what to write on the whiteboard walls at Facebook, Zuckerberg notes the company expects “everybody to treat each other with respect.”
The “Black Lives Matter” slogan stems from the death of Trayvon Martin, a black teen shot dead by George Zimmerman in Florida in 2012. Since then it has become a movement about police brutality against blacks.
Only two percent of Facebook’s employees are black.
