> And just this morning, Alexis Ohanian (u/kn0thing), my Reddit cofounder, announced that he is resigning from our board and that he wishes for his seat to be filled with a Black candidate, a request that the board and I will honor.<p>Isn’t that considered race discrimination, thus would be against the Civil Right Act?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964</a><p>I’m sure I’m missing something here, I cannot imagine that Reddit’s CEO would announce something like this without a review by their legal team.