article_snippet: One user tweeted, 'I don't have time to explain 400 years of oppression to you & still make my train', while another pointed out, 'y'
article_snippet: Last night I felt personally attacked in a cascade of negativity,' his said in a post on Medium. '
article_snippet: I got overwhelmed by the volume and tenor of the discussion, and I reacted'.
article_snippet: RaceTogether is what happens when a 1%-er without any actual anti-racist education or training has a mid-life "white man's burden" crisis,' one user tweeted.
article_snippet: His decision came in response to the escalating racial tension that emerged when grand juries failed to indict white police officers involved in the killings of Michael Brown, 18, in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, 43, in Staten Island, New York.
article_snippet: The page was black, with the words 'shall we overcome?'
highlights_snippet: Twitter users quickly branded the campaign 'patronizing' and 'cringe-inducing', and subjected executives to a wave of mockery .
  