Author: Christopher Bedford
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Twenty-six years ago, Morgan Stanley hired Marilyn Booker as their first diversity director, charged with overseeing corporate efforts from the firm’s New York City headquarters, a 685-foot, glass, Times Square skyscraper. Ten years ago, Booker left that post to work in their financial wealth management division. Seven months ago, Booker was fired.
But that was before video aired of George Floyd’s death, and spreading, national protests escalated into riots, violence, church burning, monument defacing, and occupations. How quickly things change. Now Booker is leading a group of black women in suing the company that employed her for a quarter-century, charging that the firm systematically discriminates against black employees.
The suit comes after a notably active week for the investment bank’s activism. Since Black Lives Matter blasted back into our Alzheimer’s-addled news cycle, Morgan Stanley’s chief executive, James Gorman, committed $25 million to a new internal “diversity” effort, sent $5 million to the NAACP, promoted two black women, and sent an email about it all to staff. For his efforts, he was personally named in Booker’s lawsuit.
But Morgan Stanley is not uniquely stupid for empowering an activist whose sole job was to call them racists. For decades, corporate America has launched similar efforts in the vain hope that money, press releases, and choice divestments could virtue-signal them out of the mob’s cross-hairs and even hurt their competitors. None of it saves them. On the contrary, moves to embrace the mob have placed corporations more clearly in their sights than they were before.
At root is the reality that corporations are cowardly, and there’s a reason for that. While conservative consumers are adept at patronizing companies that support their worldview, a la Chick-fil-A, they rarely target private industry for blatant Democratic partisanship. Liberal consumers and their media enablers, on the other hand, will boycott a company for the slightest connection to the slightest transgression.
Over the past 30 years, this has taught corporations like Nike that attacking conservatives has no consequence, while pushing left-wing values has no detriment. Until now. Full Story @ The Federalist
Woke Culture, BLM, And The Pandering Corporations
American businesses are in the throes of one-upping each other on virtue-signaling.
The pandering to black America is in full swing. From the original “woke” mega-corporation, Nike, to Starbucks, the NFL, and now NASCAR. But will it last? Is the country changing course – reversing the negotiation with terrorists policy – or merely reacting to the death of one man in police custody, soon to be forgotten, just like impeachment, climate change, and COVID-19?
Aren’t we all going to die in 12 years? At least, that’s what Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was squawking about this time last year? One would think the murder of one man in police custody wouldn’t keep the tiny truant, Greta Thunberg, from her world news media tour, as certain death of earth was imminent – but it has.
All eyes are focused on the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. Activists, coordinated and ready for mayhem and madness, turned all attention in their direction in a blink of an eye. And corporate America is in full “get in on the easy optics” mode, outdoing one another in sucking up to Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
Unarmed Social Justice Warriors
Of course, they believe they are on the side of righteousness, those folks who call themselves Social Justice Warriors. The problem is, they are woefully ill-equipped: their low-capacity magazines packed with delusional bullets – and few of those dipped in poisonous reality. Also, one might notice that these SJWs are overstimulated – Starbucks and energy drinks being the likely culprit. Full Story @ Liberty Nation
The Floyd Riots Mark a Century of Communist Agitation
Lefts Playbook may be old - But it's still effective
... With Stalin's blessing, the Comintern set out to find a case that would undermine the idea of America, which at the time held great sway throughout the world. America was widely perceived as the land of opportunity, the ever beckoning home of the free and the brave. For the Soviet experiment to prevail, the American experiment had to yield. The world had to see America through fresh, unblinking eyes, not as the great melting pot, but as a simmering stew of xenophobic injustice.
In 1925, the Comintern came looking for Sacco and Vanzetti, glass slipper in hand. Almost immediately, "spontaneous" protests sprung up throughout the world. ... In 2020 they came for George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks and anyone else who that glass slipper might fit Read More