VIDEO: Apple's Tim Cook Wallops Alabama Over Gay Rights
The Apple CEO didn't mince words while being inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor.
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Sweet home Alabama? At a ceremony during which he was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor, Apple CEO Tim Cook laid into his home state for its dubious civil rights record, as well as its continued inaction in expanding legal protections for citizens based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
“As a state we took too long to take steps toward equality and once we began, our progress was too slow,” Cook said in a ceremony in the Alabama State Capitol. “Too slow on equality for African Americans. Too slow on interracial marriage, which was only legalized 14 years ago. And still too slow on equality for the LGBT community.”