AT&T’s most recent Diversity and Inclusion Annual Report says that 52% of its “frontline” US employees are white, compared to 23% black. At the management level 65% are white and 15% are black.

“Tolerance is for cowards,” Stephenson concludes in his speech. “Being tolerant requires nothing from you but to be quiet and not make waves.”

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