Sharpton announces boycott of companies ending DEI

[Wingnut]

Yawn.  The grift won't work anymore Al baby. 

Rev. Al Sharpton on Monday announced a boycott of companies eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, saying the effort will be in the spirit of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Speaking from the Metropolitan AME Church, Sharpton said his organization, the National Action Network, is calling upon all Americans, regardless of their race or gender, to boycott companies that will no longer support DEI.

“Why do we have DEI? We have DEI because you denied us diversity, you denied us equity, you denied us inclusion. DEI was a remedy to the racial institutionalized bigotry practice in academia and in these corporations. Now, if you want to put us back in the back of the bus, we gonna do the Dr. King-Rosa Parks on you,” Sharpton said as those gathered cheered.

“You must have forgot who we are,” Sharpton added. “We are the ones that you took everything and we still here.”

According to Sharpton, a council will engage in a 90-day study of what companies have given up on DEI and what their margins of profit are. After that, two companies will specifically be targeted in the boycott.

Meanwhile, Sharpton added, he’ll be supporting companies that have doubled down on DEI, like Costco.

Sharpton’s announcement was part of a larger ceremony at the church honoring the slain civil rights leader on the same day President Trump was sworn into office. The church – where abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s funeral was held and Rosa Parks’s casket was brought – was packed with supporters.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sharpton-announces-boycott-of-companies-ending-dei/ar-AA1xxmwj?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=201da8c57c514894a83c4ed7a72350a6&ei=53

[Fishrrman]

That's great, Al.
Have your boyz stay away.
Will be much more pleasant for all the companies involved !!

[PeteS in CA]

Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh, Sharp Al's shake-down power is well past its expiration date.

[Hoodat]

Can someone provide a list of companies that Sharpton is not boycotting?  Those are the companies I need to avoid.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

A not-too-subtle threat by him toward keeping the gravy train ongoing where he has enough money to fund his consorts he keeps.

It doesn't work anymore, Al.

Go get your money from those who don't know better that race hustling is over.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Can someone provide a list of companies that Sharpton is not boycotting?  Those are the companies I need to avoid.

Yeah, I would like to have that list as well.

I suspect they are all on this list.

https://www.sustainalytics.com/corporate-solutions/esg-solutions/top-rated-companies#eligible

I scanned through the list and have found out there are a couple of stocks sales I need to make tomorrow.

[mountaineer]

Al the charlatan Sharpton is just following shakedown artist Jesse Jackson's fine example of race hustling.

[jafo2010]

Race hustling is an industry that will never die.  NEVER!!!  There will always be someone like Sharpton to carry the baton of hate forward through the next day, year, decade, etc.

I think it is safe to say that racism will never completely go away, and in fact, I have witnessed blacks discriminating against other races far more often than whites doing so in the last 20 years. 

Sharpton is how old now?  When he departs this earthly haven of fleecing there will be another to take up in his footsteps and continue the fleecing.  Life will go on, and no stone unturned in the effort to part folks from their money.

[rangerrebew]

That street can run both ways there, Al, old buddy.  People can just as easily boycott any business that DOES support DEI and undercut your influence.  Just saying - - -