Brian krzanich nationality discrimination

Intel has been one of the more active supporters of Silicon Valley's drive to diversify its tech workforce, but it's faced some internal resistance along the way, its CEO Brian Krzanich said on Friday.

According to TechCrunch, Krzanich told Jesse Jackson on stage at a conference in San Francisco that he's received threats and "backlash" from employees for trying to hire more minorities at his company:

People worry that as a white man, you’re kind of under siege to a certain extentThere’s been a bit of resistance.

We’ve even had a few threats and things like that on some of our leadership team around our position on diversity and inclusion.

We stand up there and just remind everybody it’s not an exclusive process. We’re not bringing in women or African-Americans or Hispanics in exclusion to other people.

We’re actually just trying to bring them in and be a part of