Apple and Tim Cook Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Apple 26.2]

Just wondering, did Apple give its employees the day off?

Good question. It's a national holiday, so I would assume yes. I had the day off, but still needed to do some work from home.

 

[Mtmspa]

amen to that, friend

A great man that plagiarized other people's work for numerous papers and his dissertation.

 

[dannyyankou]

Oh my god, some of the comments here are just laughable. Apple supports Trump? Lol. They don't like taxes like everyone else, that doesn't tell **** about who they support.

 

[Mtmspa]

Apple needs to worry about releasing hardware and software that doesn't suck.

 

[TechZeke]

Only this forum can bitch about Apple honoring MLK, and they are equally happy to take the day off.

 

[Born Again]

I wish Apple had no political agenda and social justice goals to pursue.

why don't you just say you dont care for black people.

 

[farmboy]

Apart from self advertising and getting people to view Apples products, I'm struggling to see the connection here between a giant American consumer electronics giant Mr King Jnr's death?

Because we're all humans.

 

[69650]

Apple CEO Tim Cook also tweeted a photo of Dr. King and said "we honor [him] by working to help achieve justice and equality."​

Apple's Leadership webpage shows 18 Executive Profiles of VPs and Senior VPs: 15 White Males, 2 White Females, 1 Black Female

You're obviously not "working" hard enough Tim, or could it be that you're an opportunist jumping on the MLK bandwagon for shameless publicity. Either way you're a fraud and the sooner you go the better.

 

[lunarworks]

You should take this opportunity to move there. Personally, I live in a country where the millennials have elected a Prime Minister who is set on bankrupting the country through the transferring of wealth to individuals and groups who believe they deserve an equal standard of living to those paying the bill, without having to make a contribution themselves.

I assume you're talking about Trudeau.

The future is automation, driven by corporate self-interest. Well-paying jobs are sadly going to disappear and not come back. Smart countries are doing research to prepare for that future, rather than wade into massive civil unrest. It's called guaranteed minimum income, as in just enough to get by.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

There are a lot of very small people here.

It makes me sad.

 

[thekeyring]

I wish Apple had no political agenda and social justice goals to pursue.

I wish the negativity on this forum would stop. Looks like neither of us are getting what we want.

 

[TMRJIJ]

That's a complete, utter lie. Show me any evidence that shows the new administration's intention to eliminate the holiday. I'd love to see it. Otherwise, pipe down.

And Apple has not gotten this right. Apple and left wing companies like it are laying the groundwork for an incredibly ugly and depressing future where everyone's race is front and center, where you're an Asian American or an African American or a European American instead of just an American. Where your race factors heavily into what job you get, what school your kids get into, etc.

One example I noticed at Apple: a few years ago, almost overnight, I noticed that first tier Apple Support calls were being answered by black people, almost exclusively. Did Apple happen to suddenly hire a large number of black people just randomly? Of course not. Instead, Apple made a conscious decision to hire blacks to the exclusion of whites, and probably asians and every other group, largely because of their race, not their individuality. When the racial shakedown artist, Jesse Jackson, came to town and pointed out that there weren't many blacks and hispanics working in Silicon Valley, the liberal pushovers like Tim Cook fell all over themselves to apologize and pledge to "try harder", and never pushed back to point out how few blacks or hispanics graduated with technical degrees, or even bothered applying for non-technical jobs. But somehow, it became a failing of the Valley to not bend over backwards to recruit people based on their race.

For all of Tim Cook's love of MLK, I doubt he really understands the man. When King said "Free at last", he wasn't looking forward to a world that was hyper-aware of race, where everyone was evaluated by race first and individuality second. King was talking about a world where the individual was the only thing that mattered, REGARDLESS of race.

Tim Cook and Apple are moving in the opposite direction.

Apple's Leadership webpage shows 18 Executive Profiles of VPs and Senior VPs of which 15 are male and 3 female. There is only 1 black person.

You're obviously not "working" hard enough Tim.

Or could it be that you're an opportunist jumping on the MLK bandwagon for shameless publicity.

Either way you're a fraud and the sooner you go the better.

I'd loved to see you guys hash it out.

 

[blackcrayon]

Apple needs to worry about releasing hardware and software that doesn't suck.

Sounds far less important than having a world that doesn't suck. But you're right I'm sure recognizing MLK Day took an incredible amount of resources from their hardware and software engineers.

 

[mac_in_tosh]

Good question. It's a national holiday, so I would assume yes. I had the day off, but still needed to do some work from home.

I didn't get this day off where I worked. But the company allowed time off to do service in the community.

 

[acctman]

I wish Apple had no political agenda and social justice goals to pursue.

then they wouldn't be Apple... That's what made Job's and his vision for Apple different than other companies focused on profit only

 

[newyorkone]

Sounds great! For starters, how about getting some color and gender diversity into lead management positions...

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

I'm hoping that the mods will clean up this tread like they the last several days ago.

 

[2010mini]

Only on MR can a tribute to MLK jr garner negative posts.... SMDH

 

[TechGeek76]

Apple got this right. The only problem is that this is likely to be the last MLK Day because the racist fascists that are taking over the US government are likely to eliminate it as a national holiday.

We SHALL overcome some day, today is just not that day.

Yawn....
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Claims to love Martin Luther King.
Reasons: Blackness, diversity appeal, civil rights movement, being on right side of history.

Real life: Supports republicans and Donald Trump.

Pretty sure he backed Hillary.

 

[vmachiel]

I wish Apple had no political agenda and social justice goals to pursue.

They would get so much ****. They have to do stuff like this. Luckily, Apple seems to be on the right side most of the time. Take the encryption debate for example.

 

[576316]

Tim, you're a very privileged white man with a $300m/y job. You are not in the same boat as the rest of us. You live a life of ultimately luxury and have everything you could ever want and more money than anyone could ever spend in a lifetime. Polar opposites to who MLK was, and what he stood for.

You got there by overcharging consumers for sub par products whilst preaching unity, community and products for everyone...hmm. You mean products for rich white businessmen like yourself? Not by putting your life at risk to make sure barbaric race segregation was ended.

I'm sorry, but am I the only one totally sick to the teeth of Apple's constant propaganda these days? It's sad because it's all complete c**p. They need to get down off their high horse.

 

[RedOrchestra]

And it's telling that you attack single mothers.

I bloody well hope so. A basic edict, you should ONLY have a family IF you have the means to support and nourish that family.

 

[576316]

And it's telling that you attack single mothers.

I don't think the poster is attacking single mothers specifically. Many of the people abusing state income laws are not single. I've seen it happen first hand, these lower class young people having many, many children because each one is an extra £100 at the end of the month. The government hand them houses for nothing, so they can sit at home having more babies, getting more state income because it's quicker and easier than getting a job.

On the other hand, there are many people who desperately need state income who are being stigmatised and losing out due to other people abusing the system.

So in a way, a state income is not a good thing. But I also think that is the way things will be one day when like, as you say, 80% of jobs are removed by automation. We're going to have to re-think the way we see money, and how people 'earn' it.

 

[lunarworks]

I bloody well hope so. A basic edict, you should ONLY have a family IF you have the means to support and nourish that family.

I completely agree, but at the same time **** happens and people fall into bad situations.

 

[MOFS]

Tim's a hack. Steve wouldn't have done anything remotely like this.

Cook is well documented as having a picture of Martin Luther King on his desk and even quoted him when he came out. Cook, for whatever else has been said, has certainly made Apple at least appear to be more progressive and have more of a social conscious than Jobs ever did.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-speaks-up