Nick Heer of Pixel Envy, in response to my piece on Apple’s Martin Luther King Day “tribute,” in which I quoted Dr. King’s disappointment with “the white moderate”:

Cook is, at best, the kind of white moderate who would disappoint King: someone who, optimistically, agrees with the goals of those protesting the horrific turn this second administration has taken but disagrees with their methods. Cook’s legacy used to be carrying Apple in the post-Jobs era to new financial heights. Now it is gold trophies and authoritarian appeasement.

I proudly worked under Cook for many years and met him on multiple occasions (in my capacity as co-chair for Apple’s Black employee group) and greatly respected him. That respect has diminished greatly.