Posted on 04/27/2024 7:35:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Give Big Tobacco, as they used to call it, some credit.
The most demonized industry in the country decided to protect itself from a ban by wrapping itself in DEI.
As I documented in “Black Cigarettes Matter”, tobacco companies brought in Al Sharpton, George Floyd’s ghost, and BLM.
Sharpton’s National Action Network claimed that banning menthol cigarettes would hurt black people and issued a press release stating that it had reached this position after “working with Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner” and serial BLM litigator Ben Crump.
During a previous attempt by New York to ban menthols, Sharpton had been thrown into the fight alongside Garner’s mother and George Floyd’s brother.
Last year, ‘Mothers of the Movement’ a group that included Carr, along with “Philonise Floyd” (a brother, not a mother), and Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s mother, claimed that they had taken part in a panel at Sharpton’s NAA led by Crump and that banning menthol cigarettes was racist.
The old demonized companies remodeled and repainted their newly woke operations in rainbow colors and black power fists.
Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris, announced a $5 million donation to fight “systemic racism” during the BLM race riots and claims that “inclusion, Diversity and Equity (ID&E) is embedded into everything we do.” The Marlboro cigarette manufacter has racial quotas for its executives for not only blacks, gays and Hispanics, but also to have 2% representation for “two spirit” men and women: a form of transgender identity supposedly grounded in Indian lore.
RJ Reynolds claims that “DE&I is an important part of our ESG strategy” and boasts of being listed by the Human Rights Campaign as one of the best places for gay people to work.
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Good for Big Tobacco, playing the woke game to their commercial benefit.
Same thing as an evil white supremacist "identifying" as a Black lesbian.
I find it amusing that ‘Biden’ thinks it’s fine for black people to die of cancer rather than losing some of their votes over a menthol ban.
Next step is to find some way to say banning menthols is racist. Find some way to “circle back”, manipulate the Lie Cloud that will bring my menthols back in California as a human rights issue.
So Biden wants black people to get cancer.
Big Government lost billions when they attacked the tobacco cash cow.
That’s why they’re so happy to have marijuana making up some of that revenue.
It’s Kool, Brother.
Ain’t nothin like a menthol with a fine glass of Hennessy.
Eric Garner
>>Garner was allegedly selling single cigarettes without a tax stamp at the time of his death
Selling “loosies”. Depriving the government
of needed tax money
“I can’t breathe”
If only we had an opposition party! They could make that a campaign issue! /S
I'd imagine in a few years you're going to see a rise in the number of smokers again.
I know I'm monotonous, but Americans really are faddy / trendy and if it's cool in the movies, guess what folks will do?
This validates the shakedown racket, and encourages its spread.
They are sure getting a lot of “mileage” out of ol’ St George of Fentanyl...
You're very right about that and it contributes to the trend that it's hip to be a sexual pervert or at least to support sexual perversion.
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Cornpop smokes monthol and was a friend of Biden's uncle who was eaten by cannibals... so this isn't a pander it's a way to pay Cornpop back for his kindness and for helping children from drowning why he was backup lifeguard with Biden... or something like that.
Cornpop smokes menthol and was a friend of Biden's uncle who was eaten by cannibals... so this isn't a pander it's a way to pay Cornpop back for his kindness and for helping children from drowning why he was backup lifeguard with Biden... or something like that.
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