Zuckerberg to Facebook employees: Stop replacing 'Black lives matter' with 'All lives matter'

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While the "Black Lives Matter" movement is aimed to promote an understanding of racial profiling and to help curb excessive police brutality against African Americans, its slogan is nonetheless one that some find issue with.

At Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, for example, some employees are taking action and scratching out that etched slogan on the company's "signature wall," a space partitioned for visitors' and employees' signatures, and rewriting "All lives matter" over it.

Gizmodo has reported (and SFGATE has confirmed) that to combat the action, CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted an internal note to his employees, urging them to stop writing over the "Black lives matter" inscriptions. Calling the behavior "disrespectful" and "malicious," Zuckerberg chided responsible parties for the incidents.

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"There are specific issues affecting the black community in the United States, coming from a history of oppression and racism," he wrote in the memo. "'Black Lives Matter' doesn't mean other lives don't -- it's simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve."

He goes on to add that whatever an individual's belief is, it's never acceptable to scribble over another's statement.

"Regardless of content or location, crossing out something means silencing speech is more important than another's. Facebook should be a service and a community where everyone is treated with respect."