Hypocritical Companies Claim To Support ‘Black Lives Matter’ But Are Funding Tom Cotton
Judd Legum in Popular Information:
Several companies that have publicly embraced the Black Lives Matter movement are among the largest corporate contributors to [shitbag racist] Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR).
Quick digression: it’s absolutely rich that one of our nation’s premier shitbag racist senators has the last name “Cotton”.
Cotton has positioned himself to the right of Trump on criminal justice issues. He was one of a handful of Senators to oppose the First Step Act, a modest piece of bipartisan legislation aimed at narrowing racial disparities in federal sentencing. […] The United States has the world's largest — and disproportionately Black — prison population. But Cotton argues America has an "under-incarceration problem."
Time and again, Cotton has shown little regard for Black Americans. He has a 6% rating from the NAACP. And yet, some of the corporations embracing the Black Lives Matter protests in U.S. cities have donated tens of thousands of dollars to Cotton's campaigns.
The list of corporations and their contributions to Cotton:
Bank of America — $15,000
Wells Fargo — $15,000
Walmart — $18,500
AT&T — $21,000
Coca Cola — $2,500
PriceWaterhouseCoopers — $22,500
Do with that information what you will, discerning readers.
Whether it’s Black Lives Matter, Gay Pride, or some other social cause, it’s time that we start making companies put their money where their mouths are. It would be regressive for us to allow them to keep up this habit of only caring when they can make a PR move for social clout.