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Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Bank of America urge shareholders to vote against racial-equity audits
Marketwatch (CBS) ^ | 3-17-21 | Levi Sumagaysay

Posted on 03/18/2021 9:28:49 AM PDT by wac3rd

Three of the nation’s biggest banks are asking shareholders to reject racial-equity resolutions after they expressed solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement last year.

Citigroup Inc. C, 3.22%, Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, 3.83% and Bank of America Corp. BAC, 4.87% were among the many large U.S. companies to make public statements of support in response to widespread protests last summer after the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. In recent days, they have all officially opposed shareholder groups’ calls for them to conduct and publicize racial-equity audits and other changes, saying they are already doing enough to address equity issues.

The shareholder proposals urge the banks to examine their practices and policies and identify ways to “avoid adverse impacts on nonwhite stakeholders and communities of color,” something the banks says is unnecessary because they are juggling different, related initiatives and/or have committed money to such issues internally and externally. The proposals are included in proxy statements to shareholders, which allow for the companies to support or oppose shareholder resolutions and explain why ahead of a vote at their annual meetings.

(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banking; bigbanks; blm; boa; citigroup; racialequityaudits; socialjustice; wellsfargo
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Interesting, they think they are doing enough but NAACP and others are demanding more....$$$.
1 posted on 03/18/2021 9:28:50 AM PDT by wac3rd
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To: wac3rd

Lol. They want to foist a race war everywhere except one against themselves.


2 posted on 03/18/2021 9:30:45 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


3 posted on 03/18/2021 9:31:55 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: wac3rd

Good luck with that!!!


4 posted on 03/18/2021 9:32:47 AM PDT by RushCrush (Prayers up for Rush Hudson Limbaugh)
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To: wac3rd

Good luck with that!!!


5 posted on 03/18/2021 9:33:18 AM PDT by RushCrush (Prayers up for Rush Hudson Limbaugh)
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To: wac3rd

Gee, they don’t want to give out high risk loans? RACISTS!

Lies with dogs, get fleas.


6 posted on 03/18/2021 9:33:54 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: wac3rd
The rank-and-file employees have probably been forced to undergo "Diversity Training" for years now... Forced to publicly denounce their "White Fragility" and express their shame for their inherent "White Privilege."

What's good for the goose...

Regards,

7 posted on 03/18/2021 9:36:31 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: wac3rd

When race and outcome are the sole measures everyone comes up short.

Because that stick does not measure truth.

And SJWs run from the truth. Always have, always will.


8 posted on 03/18/2021 9:37:10 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: wac3rd

9 posted on 03/18/2021 9:37:56 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Jesus said 'I am the Light of the world'. ~ John 8:12)
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To: wac3rd

They fed the alligator so that the alligator would eat them last.

Well, the alligators are back and they’re hungry again.


10 posted on 03/18/2021 9:38:53 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: wac3rd

Y’all fed the beast that seeks to eat you.


11 posted on 03/18/2021 9:41:21 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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......”NAACP and others are demanding more....$$$”.....

Of course they always demand more of more and when not given haul out the race card again and again and again......they ‘have to’ in order to keep their own donations and subsidies flowing in..

Just think how many Foundations and Institutions would fold if they weren’t race baiting everyone. Now the Asians want to be in on the $$$$$revenue flow.


12 posted on 03/18/2021 9:41:48 AM PDT by caww ("Politics is not a game, but a serious business" - Churchill)
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To: wac3rd

Let me get this straight...(I’m white and dense) so blacks should get told no audits, backgrounds, job history and just go right into the bank and get money and go out and buy a house, car, boat or whatever with no collateral whatsoever or open a bidness under the same “no” restraints? I’m serious as a heart attack here folks. Hub and I don’t need to make loans but our kids and grandkids are still in the market of making loans for one thing or the other if need be and they’ll get a colonoscopy free of charge to make a loan?


13 posted on 03/18/2021 9:44:28 AM PDT by Dawgreg
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...the police killings of George Floyd...

The police did not kill George Floyd. George Floyd, a violent career criminal, died of a self inflicted fentanyl overdose.

The entire MSM knows this is true, but they keep reporting the lie.

14 posted on 03/18/2021 9:46:28 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: Mariner

Those nasty old public relations departments, administered by brain-dead, introverted nerds.

When will corporations, banks, and academia finally come to their collective senses ?


15 posted on 03/18/2021 9:49:42 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: wac3rd

Mighty white of them. Uh, I mean.............


16 posted on 03/18/2021 9:53:41 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Dawgreg

I’m also white and dense, but I don’t think it means what you think it means. I think the 3 banking groups are asking to NOT have inquiries/audits into whether or not they are handling their business in the appropriate racial-equity mode to meet SJW-type standards. Even the “woke” banks are bristling at further investigations into their actual wokeness in their day-to-day workings. JMHO, and may not be correct.


17 posted on 03/18/2021 9:54:59 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: wac3rd

The funds on deposit should stay in line with racial percentages in the US.


18 posted on 03/18/2021 10:17:39 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: alexander_busek

There are some who believe that whites should be fired and blacks should be hired in their place. They seek equity in hiring beyond merit.


19 posted on 03/18/2021 10:20:42 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: wac3rd

It seems as if the grievance groups want eternal low hanging fruit that other have to climb a ladder to get, because some Lefty in Berkeley says they are entitled to it.

No standards. No credit quality. And the banks know it.

I also agree, after B of A lent to illegals and shared data with the FBI on January 6th in DC with no warrants, I could give a sh- about what happens to these SJW organizations.

I say, enjoy the mess YOU created. The monster they created is now chasing them around the lab.


20 posted on 03/18/2021 10:26:05 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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