Tim Cook Announces Apple’s $100 Million Racial Justice Initiative

蒂姆·库克公布苹果公司1亿美元的种族公正倡议

Apple is creating a $100 million racial justice program to promote racial justice inside the company, CEO Tim Cook announced Thursday, as corporate leaders across the U.S. seek to respond to the George Floyd protests and are under a renewed pressure to address racial inequality at major companies.

苹果公司首席执行官蒂姆•库克周四宣布，苹果公司正在创建一个1亿美元的种族公正项目，以促进公司内部的种族公正。与此同时，美国各地的企业领导人都在寻求对乔治•弗洛伊德的抗议做出回应，并面临着解决大公司种族不平等问题的新压力。

“Growing up in Alabama during the civil rights movement, I saw firsthand that the only thing that ever made lasting and durable change was people of goodwill putting aside comfort and safety to speak up to march to call for accountability and to do what they could to make a flawed society more perfect,” Cook said.

库克说:“在民权运动期间，我在阿拉巴马州长大，我亲眼目睹了唯一能带来永恒和持久的变革的是那些善意的人们，他们把舒适和安全放在一边，挺身而出，呼吁人们承担责任，尽他们所能让一个有缺陷的社会变得更加完美。”

24%, that’s the percent of Apple’s workforce made up of underrepresented minorities.

24%，这是苹果公司员工中少数族裔所占的比例。

Though nearly every major company has released a statement in support for black employees, business leaders are under pressure to take more concrete action. All of the major tech giants have donated or instituted employee donation matching programs to racial justice organizations. Twitter made Juneteenth a company holiday and Amazon said it would no longer let police use its controversial facial recognition technology for a year.

尽管几乎每个大公司都发表了支持黑人员工的声明，但商业领袖们仍面临着采取更具体的行动的压力。 所有主要的科技巨头都向种族正义组织捐赠或建立了员工捐赠匹配计划。 推特将六月十四日定为公司假日，亚马逊则表示一年内不再允许警方使用其备受争议的面部识别技术。