"We must never allow the majority to disenfranchise the minority." With these words, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple and successor to Steve Jobs, received last weekteam at the Auburn University School of Humanities event honoring his life and work.
It was one of the rare times Tim Cook took to the stage at an event unrelated to the US digital giant's operations. technologys. The succession of a giant of our time, Steve Jobs, had trapped the 52-year-old businessman in an unstoppable workand exclusive loyalty to Apple.
But at this event, Tim Cook did not talk about Apple's forefront and innovation, not even about the more general issue of how modern technology will release societies and people. He talked about racism, social racism, racism against African Americans that he had learned from a young man growing up in the heart of the American South in Alabama, as a racism against immigrants now, about minority rights that the majority should not deprive.
And it was an aversion to his speech that attracted most applause. "It's always the right time to do the right thing. Today we have an opportunity. We have an opportunity to continue to make progress in respecting the different races and also to embrace the reforms on immigrants, "he said, then, raising his tone of voice, stressed:" And to eliminate discrimination against the gay and lesbian community! ".
Devoted to Apple for decades and living in the shadow of an international personality radiationLike Jobs, Tim Cook kept his personal life out of the public eye.
In early October, Out magazine - the bible of the American gay community - named him the most powerful gay man in the world. The second was Ellen de Genners.
In a speech like the one at Obourne University, Tim Cook, a regular Obama partner and the man who successfully leads Apple in the aftermath of the Ozb, proves he is indeed the most powerful gay man on the planet. And now he's been talking about it.
