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The former Google employee April Christina Curley has made allegations against the search engine company on Twitter.
As Curley wrote, blacks were disadvantaged when hiring new employees.
Because of her commitment to hire more blacks, she was repeatedly approached and harassed by her superiors.
Curley's job at Google was to recruit new employees and thereby increase diversity in the company.
The black former Google employee also reported an incident in which a white supervisor described her way of speaking as a "disability".
She should disclose this at internal meetings.
Curley said of herself that she often speaks with an accent from the US city of Baltimore.
Historically, the city has a large African American community.
Google told the US magazine "Business Insider" that they did not agree with Curley's descriptions of her resignation.
One does not want to comment publicly on the special allegations.
Basically, a company spokesman said they have a large team of recruiters that are working on hiring more blacks and members of underrepresented groups.
Discrimination against black graduates?
Curley also accused Google that prior to joining the company in 2014, they never hired graduates from so-called HBCUs universities.
The abbreviation stands for Historically Afro-American Colleges and Universities in German.
These are colleges that were founded before blacks were legally equal in 1964 and originally served the education of African Americans.
According to Curley, Google did not believe that graduates from these universities were talented enough.
Despite a sufficient qualification, university graduates were sorted out in the recruitment process, wrote Curley.
You have repeatedly argued with white superiors to give African-American applications a chance.
Google has long been criticized for discriminating against blacks
It wasn't until early December that Google came under fire for discrimination allegations after it became known that the company had broken up with a prominent black computer expert.
Timnit Gebru, a renowned researcher on artificial intelligence, had left the company in the dispute.
She had previously expressed her frustration with gender diversity on Google in an email.
Several thousand Google employees and external scientists then publicly declared their support for Gebru.
Google had previously refused to approve a scientific paper by Gebru.
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