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Posted: 2016-01-18T22:07:55Z | Updated: 2016-01-18T22:17:11Z

Apple took a break from its usual product-filled homepage on Monday to showcase a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and one of the civil rights leader's most famous quotes : "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

It's an odd choice for the company, given that Apple isn't doing much to help others except for the same types of people who almost always lead major tech companies. Earlier this month, Apple's very white, very male board voted down a proposal to bring more diversity to its senior management team. The company's own diversity website shows that, like its board, Apple is overwhelmingly white and male : 69 percent of the company overall is male and 54 percent is white. Only 8 percent of employees are black.

The numbers have barely changed since 2014. And while Apple head Tim Cook says the company has hired a few thousand more minorities recently, that's a drop in the bucket given that the corporation employs about 115,000 people around the world. The upper echelons of Apple leadership remain white and male.

Apple did not immediately respond to The Huffington Post's request for comment on Monday.