“All these corporate donations to and affirmation of the BLM movement are simply replacing those that used to go to Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/Push organization.”
I agree. One of the most hilarious attempted shakedowns occurred when Jessie Jackson showed up to protest the Bush Brewery corporation in Tampa, where I grew up. (If I recall, this was in the early seventies. So, what is about to be revealed was, at the time, really shocking.)
The protests went on for several days and was dutifully covered by the media. When the stink was at its highest, the Bush Brewery Corporation sent out their executive vice president of the company to speak to the media and address Jackson and his mob. He was spectacularly black. Obviously articulate and smart, he slapped down Jackson so that Jackson and his traveling lynch mob left in embarrassment. Turns out he had started at the lowest position in the corporation at some menial job way back in the sixties. But he was smart and they saw how smart and he rapidly moved up, saving them money everywhere they put him. So, at that point he was directing all Bush operations. Color was not a consideration.
I was in high school watching this on the news. As the VP spoke, the camera paned to Jackson and you could see the “oh, $hit” expression on his face. I laughed out loud.
My guess is that Jackson then hired someone to do some serious intel work on his victims so that such a humiliating defeat did not occur again.
All these corporations have this “protection money” already baked into their budgets...and since it is already budgeted, it becomes just a matter of WHERE to spend it.
That leaves the problem of “labeling”. If a logo is portrayed as WOKE......well, no problem there. If however a logo is seen as portraying RACISM...well, we can’t have that.
As to the black gentleman you mentioned, he may very well have been a good, productive employee. But somewhere above him was a “rabbi” who pushed for his rise in the corp. After all, he filled ALL the requirements of the day. Remember, you said this was in the early 70s. You may have only been in high school at the time, but I was out working in the company (ATT) that fully aquiesced and gave credence to the Nixon DOJ policy of the EEOC.