[Rainymood]

>I never told my team the truth of where I was going that night. And though I spent my night shouting protest chants, straining my voice until Garner’s final words, “I can’t breathe,” cracked against the throat, I returned to work the next day in silence. And after struggling to cope with the fear that my team might not accept me — the activist me and the black me — silence became my strategy for survival.

So, crudely put, the author expected Google and his teammates to read his mind? And now he is punishing people's apparent lack of mind-reading skills by leaving Google.

This is of course an incredibly crass way of putting it, but while I feel like the author is touching upon a real issue I think he handled it quite poorly as well.

[Balgair]

> This is of course an incredibly crass way of putting it...

Aside: Perhaps then spend the extra time to find a better way to put it then? HN is an open board like many others, but one of the many reasons people come here is for the good community and commentary that is somewhat rare online. First to comment is not (generally) that big of a deal here, we all can wait for a measured response.