Venture capitalist Chris Sacca likes to keep a low profile when it comes to his investments. The same can’t be said for his views on politics and race.
The former Google executive and early Twitter investor weighed in with his thoughts on riot-torn Ferguson, Mo., where an unarmed black teen was killed by a white cop.
Sacca stirred the debate Wednesday with a posting on his firm’s official blog, Lowercase Capital, titled, “A few thoughts on race, America, and our President.”
“We are a nation at war with itself. We jail our black men, and women, and boys. (Our Hispanic population isn’t far behind.) We punish our poor. We have militarized our police. We selectively uphold our Constitution. ‘Justice for All’ is a propagandist relic,” he wrote.
He didn’t hold back in his assessment of the dead teen either.
Sacca said 18-year-old Michael Brown appeared to be an “a–hole” based on surveillance tapes purporting to show him shoplifting from a convenience store shortly before he was gunned down in the street.
“Now before you label me as one-sided on this issue, let me say from what I have seen, it appears Michael Brown was an a- -hole. If it is in fact him in the videotape from the convenience store, then he was acting like an a- -hole and likely would have deserved some form of criminal prosecution. The store owner deserved justice.”
Last year, Sacca, who also invested in Instagram, Kickstarter and Uber among other tech companies, called on moderate Republicans to take back their party from “extremists.”