<p>Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has resigned from the tech firm's board and urged the company to replace him with a black candidate.</p>.<p>The 37-year-old tech entrepreneur, who is white, is the husband of tennis legend Serena Williams.</p>.<p>Ohanian decided to quit after days of violent protests across the US over the killing of African-American George Floyd, a 46-year-old man who died in Minneapolis on May 25 after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes while the handcuffed man gasped for breath.</p>.<p>In a series of tweets on Friday, Ohanian said he was resigning, "as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: 'What did you do?'"</p>.<p>"I've resigned as a member of the reddit board, I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate, + I will use future gains on my Reddit stock to serve the black community, chiefly to curb racial hate, and I'm starting with a pledge of $1M to @kaepernick7’s @yourrightscamp," he said.</p>.<p>"I co-founded @reddit 15 years ago to help people find community and a sense of belonging. It is long overdue to do the right thing. I'm doing this for me, for my family, and for my country," he said.</p>.<p>Ohanian and Williams married three years ago and they have one child.</p>.<p>"I believe resignation can actually be an act of leadership from people in power right now. To everyone fighting to fix our broken nation: do not stop," he said.</p>.<p>Based in San Francisco, Reddit is a social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. It has millions of users and calls itself "the front page of the internet".</p>.<p>Ohanian founded the social media website 15 years ago with his college roommates Aaron Swartz and Steve Huffman. He stepped down from daily duties in 2018 but has retained a seat on the company's board until now.</p>.<p>Reddit CEO Huffman wrote in a post on Friday that the company would "honour" Ohanian's request to replace him with a black candidate.</p>.<p>"We're working with mods to change our content policy to explicitly address hate. u/kn0thing (Ohanian) has resigned from our board to fill his seat with a Black candidate, a request we will honor. I want to take responsibility for the history of our policies over the years that got us here, and we still have work to do," Huffman said.</p>
<p>Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has resigned from the tech firm's board and urged the company to replace him with a black candidate.</p>.<p>The 37-year-old tech entrepreneur, who is white, is the husband of tennis legend Serena Williams.</p>.<p>Ohanian decided to quit after days of violent protests across the US over the killing of African-American George Floyd, a 46-year-old man who died in Minneapolis on May 25 after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes while the handcuffed man gasped for breath.</p>.<p>In a series of tweets on Friday, Ohanian said he was resigning, "as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: 'What did you do?'"</p>.<p>"I've resigned as a member of the reddit board, I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate, + I will use future gains on my Reddit stock to serve the black community, chiefly to curb racial hate, and I'm starting with a pledge of $1M to @kaepernick7’s @yourrightscamp," he said.</p>.<p>"I co-founded @reddit 15 years ago to help people find community and a sense of belonging. It is long overdue to do the right thing. I'm doing this for me, for my family, and for my country," he said.</p>.<p>Ohanian and Williams married three years ago and they have one child.</p>.<p>"I believe resignation can actually be an act of leadership from people in power right now. To everyone fighting to fix our broken nation: do not stop," he said.</p>.<p>Based in San Francisco, Reddit is a social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. It has millions of users and calls itself "the front page of the internet".</p>.<p>Ohanian founded the social media website 15 years ago with his college roommates Aaron Swartz and Steve Huffman. He stepped down from daily duties in 2018 but has retained a seat on the company's board until now.</p>.<p>Reddit CEO Huffman wrote in a post on Friday that the company would "honour" Ohanian's request to replace him with a black candidate.</p>.<p>"We're working with mods to change our content policy to explicitly address hate. u/kn0thing (Ohanian) has resigned from our board to fill his seat with a Black candidate, a request we will honor. I want to take responsibility for the history of our policies over the years that got us here, and we still have work to do," Huffman said.</p>