https://deadline.com/2018/06/netflix-shares-dive-after-exec-exit-diversity-questions-1202416808/
Got fired for saying Nigger. However, Netflix stock is down, and they are going all radical identity politics and hired the Obamas and Put Rice on the board. Plus Netflix lost a supply of content (which is why they are trying to create their own)
"Chief Executive Reed Hastings sent an awkward email to Netflix employees saying he had fired the chief communications officer, Jonathan Friedland, for showing an “unacceptably low racial awareness and sensitivity” that is out of line with the company’s values.
In the staff memo, Hastings described two instances in which Friedland dropped the “N-word,” once several months ago in a PR meeting about sensitive words. Friedland apologized after several people told him how inappropriate and hurtful his use of the term was, Hastings said.
Friedland’s ouster comes a week after Netflix Director of Original Programming Tara Duncan has left the Internet network after four years, as Deadline first reported. Her departure came within days of the exit of fellow Netflix TV development executive Layne Eskridge who went to Apple, a move that had been in the works for months.
Duncan and Eskridge were the only African American TV executives on the team.
The c-level executives at Netflix are all Caucasian, and major shareholders in the company such as the SEIU have raised concerns about the lack of racial and ethnic diversity on the streaming giant’s board of directors.