A Note On Today's Protests Against Injustice
I woke up to another day of televised and tweeted horror. Black people in our country are being targeted, oppressed, and killed.
This is not new. As Americans, we inherited a history shaped and stained by racism.
I spent most of today listening to my co-workers’ advice about what I can and should be doing. How to help the people I work with. How to help our community.
As an American, as a father, as a friend, as a neighbor, I know my responsibility to speak against injustice. What was not clear to me was if Glowforge should say something as a company.
My first reaction was – we make lasers. If our company spoke to the world about racial injustice, it would sound like grandstanding and attention-seeking. I didn’t know what we could add to the conversation.
But my brave and thoughtful co-workers challenged me. One of them told me: “When a company talks about something controversial, the nuance can be hard. But saying ‘racism is bad’ should be easy.”
They’re right. This should be easy.
Black Lives Matter.
!["Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." -- Martin Luther King Jr.](https://blog.glowforge.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/woodwhims_mlk-1024x737.png)
Dan Shapiro, CEO, Glowforge Inc.