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Coca-Cola Scraps Diversity Policy for Outside Law Firms
« on: March 29, 2022, 10:35:57 am »
Coca-Cola Scraps Diversity Policy for Outside Law Firms

By Brian Baxter (Bloomberg)
March 28, 2022

The Coca-Cola Co. has officially walked away from race-based staffing requirements for law firms doing work for the company, following blowback from some investors and the removal of the executive who developed the plan.

The proposed requirements “have not been and are not a policy” at Coca-Cola, general counsel Monica Howard Douglas said in a Feb. 7 letter to a group of shareholders obtained by Bloomberg Law. The group had threatened the company with litigation over what it called an “illegal discriminatory” policy.

That policy, announced last year by former Coca-Cola general counsel Bradley Gayton, would have required outside law firms to staff at least 30% of new matters with diverse attorneys. A Coca-Cola spokesman confirmed the Douglas letter is authentic. The company declined to otherwise comment.

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Source:  https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/coca-cola-scraps-diversity-requirements-for-outside-law-firms

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« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2022, 10:36:18 am »
At least a bit of moderately positive news.


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« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2022, 04:37:16 pm »
At least a bit of moderately positive news.
We are at a stage of only correcting stupid is positive.
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« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2022, 08:03:51 pm »
I almost never drink soda any more, and Coke and Pepsi are not on the list when I do.  If I want a soda I will got back to the mainstays of my youth, RC Cola and Vernors.

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« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2022, 08:04:48 pm »
We are at a stage of only correcting stupid is positive.


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« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2022, 08:21:18 pm »
at least 30% of new matters with "diverse" attorneys

That is the big irony/hypocrisy of the radical White Liberal Democrat American Left.
They have usurped the self appointed position of being the world's babysitters for the unfortunate Black people (who are too stupid to take care of themselves). And yet, they can never bring themselves to say the unmentionable word ... "Black", as if it is a curse of some kind.

We need to stop pretending that the corporate/government term 'diversity' means anything other than 'Black'. Labeling their overt Black racism as "diversity" is intended to mean that it includes 'all' races. No! Not at all. (Diversity = Black People)

No Asians. No Latinos. No Native Americans. No nothing. 'Diversity' is all about radical White Liberal Leftists looking out for their poor pet Black people who they believe cannot make it without them. Nothing more than that. I think everyone is waking up to that reality.
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« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2022, 08:22:29 pm »
at least 30% of new matters with "diverse" attorneys

That is the big irony/hypocrisy of the radical White Liberal Democrat American Left.
They have usurped the self appointed position of being the world's babysitters for the unfortunate Black people (who are too stupid to take care of themselves). And yet, they can never bring themselves to say the unmentionable word ... "Black", as if it is a curse of some kind.

We need to stop pretending that the corporate/government term 'diversity' means anything other than 'Black'. Labeling their overt Black racism as "diversity" is intended to mean that it includes 'all' races. No! Not at all. (Diversity = Black People)

No Asians. No Latinos. No Native Americans. No nothing. 'Diversity' is all about radical White Liberal Leftists looking out for their poor pet Black people who they believe cannot make it without them. Nothing more than that. I think everyone is waking up to that reality.


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« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2022, 10:18:31 pm »
at least 30% of new matters with "diverse" attorneys

That is the big irony/hypocrisy of the radical White Liberal Democrat American Left.
They have usurped the self appointed position of being the world's babysitters for the unfortunate Black people (who are too stupid to take care of themselves). And yet, they can never bring themselves to say the unmentionable word ... "Black", as if it is a curse of some kind.

We need to stop pretending that the corporate/government term 'diversity' means anything other than 'Black'. Labeling their overt Black racism as "diversity" is intended to mean that it includes 'all' races. No! Not at all. (Diversity = Black People)

No Asians. No Latinos. No Native Americans. No nothing. 'Diversity' is all about radical White Liberal Leftists looking out for their poor pet Black people who they believe cannot make it without them. Nothing more than that. I think everyone is waking up to that reality.
It is because Coca Cola cannot find enough competent black attorneys to make their quota.

I worked once for a Fortune 500  company that went afoul of the Jesse Jackson/Sharpton dictate and hired a NAACP guy for its human resources director.

He pronounced no petroleum engineers would be hired unless they were minorities (read black).  Our requirements were to bring in 50 new engineers to work, but only 3 black engineers were even graduating that year in petroleum engineering.

So rather than changing the mix, that racist said we would hire non-petroleum engineers but they had to be black.

So the offers to very qualified engineers from Texas A&M and other top engineering schools could not be made so we could offer positions to blacks who graduated from the absolute weakest engineering schools in the country.

It was devastating to employee morale as well as the company and the company finally went bankrupt and the remains were sold off.

Diversity run amok.
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« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2022, 10:49:01 am »
I almost never drink soda any more, and Coke and Pepsi are not on the list when I do.  If I want a soda I will got back to the mainstays of my youth, RC Cola and Vernors.
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« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2022, 10:51:36 am »
My personal; opinion has always been: I don't care about race, gender, or religious affiliation. Are you qualified, period amen end of story. 
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« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2022, 10:56:22 am »
My personal; opinion has always been: I don't care about race, gender, or religious affiliation. Are you qualified, period amen end of story. 

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