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An Easy Activist Action to Protest Apple’s Exclusion of Asian Men

Woo hoo!  Lots of people read the post about Apple and the AF/WM theme in their advertising.  I said that I would write them a letter about including more Asian men, and I finally did.  See below–I sent it to Steve Jobs and Philip Schiller this morning.  I have no idea whether they’ll do anything about it, but I figure it’s worth a shot.  There was some ignorance on my part of how the media/acting industry operates, so special thanks to Minority Militant and Philip from You Offend Me You Offend My Family for helping a brother out.

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Apple’s Third Founder

While we’re all getting ready to write our letters to Steve Jobs about their discriminatory advertising hiring practices, I saw the video above and an article about Ron Wayne, the third cofounder of Apple.  It’s an interesting story.  At it’s founding, Wayne owned 10% of Apple, along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who each owned 45%.  After 11 days of Apple’s existence, Wayne got the others to buy him out, taking $800 in exchange for his 10%.  Had he kept his share, he would have been worth $22 billion today.  An engineer by trade, he is currently retired and lives off of his social security.

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