So basically they are telling Martin-Luther king to go to hell....
“Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
This is obviously racist. But that aside, I continue to wonder how this sort of thing is supposed to work. For example, would an attorney with just one black parent count as a black attorney? Or only as half a black attorney?
Perhaps Coca-Cola should refer back to the old Nazi racial laws. The Nazis pretty much had this all figured out.
Anyway, things go better without Coke.
Likely good news for anyone suing them—attorneys hired for affirmative action versus merit.
“Outside counsel commit to providing KO with self-identified diversity data (including American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Women, Hispanic/Latinx, LGBTQ+, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander and Persons with Disabilities) for KO’s quarterly analysis of the diversity of teams working on KO matters”
In other words - anyone other than straight, white males.
I drink Pepsi products. But i suppose they will one up Coke on virtue signalling (if they haven’t already).
It’s the new crack...er coke. Where’s Hunter?
So they are cutting black attorneys down to 11% and bumping Hispanic attorneys up to 40% to match population statistics?
There's lots of 'self-identified groups not listed: Heterosexual couples where the man's on top... Widowed masturbation groups, people originally from Scotland, England, France, and the outer Antilles... Women who put mothering ahead of work, women who put work ahead of mothering, fathers who stay home, fathers who go to work, people who attend Church MORE than two times a week... people without disabilities, people who wear glasses, people who wake up happy...
It's time to expand the groups... if we're throwing out merit than we all need to get ALL group included.
Feel free to add to the lists...
Everybody do the Warren maneuver.
From now on you designate yourself as a minority.
You can be sure that Coca-Cola never made a similar demand for airline pilots for their business travel.
You mean like jailhouse Lawyers? Cool.
Coca-Cola is racist for not hiring these minorities already but instead pushing them to other employers.
The big question is, is the government putting the squeeze on Coke, or is this an inside job?
This kind of thing has been going on for a long time — Coca-cola isn’t the first. UPS had a similar requirement in place at least 15 years ago, and may still for all I know.
There goes the quality of that legal team
Guess coke wants to lose law suits
Illegal and unconstitutional, but what do they care!
Looks like “reparations” will be implemented by private industry, not the government, but with the full support and backing of the government. Either way, it’s illegal, wrong, and unfair.
This crap has been going on in the corporate world for decades. In my experience it isn’t taken too seriously. Huge companies can afford to have dumb/token “diversity” positions in management. They do this for show. The “Vice President of Diversity/Inclusion” brings nothing to the bottom line other than allowing the company to crow about being “woke”.
I’ve seen companies game the system big time. Big companies like to tout their “diversity spending goals”. They must spend money with Black-owned companies, Hispanic-owned, Natiive-American owned, etc.
A company I used to work for was pulling a huge amount of chemical business away from one company to a black-owned business. I told them it was because we were supposed to boost our “diversity spend”. The incumbent company in order to not lose the business changed their ownership documents around to make them qualify as a native-american owned firm.
They kept the business. It was a complete sham. But this happens all the time.
Poison peddlers in more ways than one.
“at least 30% of each of billed associate and partner time will be from diverse attorneys,
“We will no longer celebrate good intentions or highly unproductive efforts that haven’t and aren’t likely to produce better diverse staffing,” General Counsel Bradley Gayton wrote. “It’s the results that we are demanding and will measure going forward.”
What, are the not-mentioned Jewish people not also a minority? Oh wait, this is about lawyers...
Half must be black even though they are only 13% of the population?
BTW, when will we see “racial equity” in pro basketball? Half the teams should be white.