A bike company offers Black customers reparations in the form of a discount

Yahoo Finance ^ | October 6, 2020 | Ethan Wolff-Mann

[ResponseAbility]

Are you Owen Benjamin?

[Boomer]

Why not just them steal the bikes. The BLM leadership says looting is a form of reparations. Leave a few of them unlocked in the ghetto every night. They won’t be there in the morning. You might find them for sale on CraigsList though.

[CJ Wolf]

Isn’t this why there are no more ladies night at bars?

[BitWielder1]

I guess they don't value their white customers.

[Soul of the South]

“The company is allocating 10% of its bikes for the discount and will not raise prices on other bikes to pay for the program.”

1) Only 10%? Blacks represent 13% of the US population. Clearly the implementation of this policy is discriminatory against blacks.

2) Will not raise prices on other bikes? No matter what they claim, other customers are subsidizing this discount.

[conservative98]

Cheapest one is $900 and you only get the frame.

https://www.rivbike.com/collections/framesets

[euram]

so, they are charging white people 45 percent more than blacks, isn’t that “racist” and isn’t that illegal?

[itsahoot]

Imagine if some company charged blacks 45% more for something because they were black.

Well technically they are charging whites 45% more aren't they?

[mass55th]

Why pay for one when all you have to do is steal one?

[Libloather]

How black do you hafta be?

[Mr. Blond]

Don’t they normally get their bikes for free?

[EinNYC]

Stoopid is as stoopid does. And that company sure is stoopid. What possible legitimate reason would they have to so broadly discriminate against non-blacks?

[Unam Sanctam]

Racial discrimination is illegal.

[Red in Blue PA]

An insult to poor non-black poeple.

Would never spend a dime there (as you would be financing this nonsense)

[Red in Blue PA]

These people are idiots.

Blacks are going to buy the bikes and resell them for a profit on craigslist.

[imardmd1]

. . . a 45% discount for Black customers.

Wrong. That's a $45/#55 x 100 = 81.8% surcharge to the White customer.

(Incidentally, if the journalists are going to capitalize the adjective to make it a proper noun, then they must do the same for "White".)

[Secret Agent Man]

...and the dicks. You can almost see all the dicks. Picture broke my gaydar.

[Maudeen]

What constitutes black?

[FreeReign]

The cost will be passed on to the white customers purchasing bikes.

No thanks.

Bigots!

[redshawk]

Yeah good idea. Buy up all the bikes then sell them in the street in front of their store for 75% of full price. Then sue their butts off for racial discrimination