Posted on 01/31/2026 3:12:20 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — It seemed like a high-profile opportunity to lead an influential environmental group’s ambitious new push for green energy financing.
And so, in May 2023, Pedro da Silva joined the Sierra Club Foundation, the charitable arm for the nonprofit started by naturalist John Muir. A former investment management professional, da Silva directed its “Shifting Trillions” program that aimed to move major banks’ investments away from the fossil fuel industry and towards climate solutions.
The effort emerged as George Floyd’s murder prompted the Sierra Club to place newfound emphasis on environmental justice. As institutions grappled with their perpetuation of white supremacy, the club apologized for its founder’s racist views and vowed to hire more diverse staff.
But da Silva says the foundation’s commitments to racial justice did not extend internally. In a wrongful termination suit filed Thursday in California state court, the 29-year-old former employee alleges that normal workplace interactions got twisted into an unfair harassment complaint that leaned on racist stereotypes about predatory Black men.
He took the firing as a form of retaliation to the dissatisfaction he repeatedly expressed with the organization’s discrimination and lack of diversity.
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Sierra Club=another elitist anti-human group.
ALL tax-exempt organizations should have that status revoked.
There is no one more racist than a Leftist.
“””The effort emerged as George Floyd’s murder prompted the Sierra Club””””......
They spelled OVERDOSE wrong.
No one more racist than an anti-racist.
Just as there’s no one more fascist than an anti-fascist.
Damn those White Supremacists!
da Silva directed its “Shifting Trillions” program that aimed to move major banks’ investments away from the fossil fuel industry and towards climate solutions.
If he would have worked harder and was better at his job then he would still be working there. But then that’s a ‘white’ thing.
“A former Sierra Club Foundation director sues over internal racism that he says hinders its mission”. I didn’t know polar bears were racist.
“the organization’s discrimination and lack of diversity.”
A black person at probably the whitest organization ever made? A gross collection of elderly AWFULS and cucks in huge brim caps. Where do these caps come from?
Oh noes! Trouble at the Sierra Club?!?! Good. Elitist lefties in that org have always seen themselves as “above” common folk.
That whole article is riddled with bullshit. LOL
Sierra Club was a big proponent of nuclear power generation at one time, and decidedly against illegal/legal migration.
Millions and millions additional people place more demands for construction, energy extraction, pollution, roads, mining, all those things that they claim they want to protect. By an sane measure Sierra Club would be for strict border control.
Weird, huh?
The “internal racism” is centered in what passes for the heart of a Leftist.
The Sierra Club was promoting and supporting the races HE didn’t like. So THEY are accused of racism. Not he himself.
True.
Correct.
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