Amazon.comās Whole Foods Market doesnāt want to be forced to let workers wear āBlack Lives Matterā masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off.
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have accused the grocer of stifling worker rights by banning staff from wearing BLM masks or pins on the job. The company countered in a filing that its own rights are being violated if itās forced to allow BLM slogans to be worn with Whole Foods uniforms.
Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high courtās June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings, saying the case āprovides a clear roadmapā to throw out the NLRBās complaint.
The dispute is one of several in which labor board officials are considering what counts as legally-protected, work-related communication and activism on the job.
Guys is it Political to not want to get killed by the police or just get seen at the hospital when youāre having chest pains?
Interesting take you have there.
Itās political to insist that getting shot in response for attacking the police is just ābecause youāre blackā.
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BLM is a brand though. The lady who founded it just bought a Ā£1.25M house in LAās exclusive Topanga neighbourhood for all cash.
That doesnāt sound like some sort of grass roots, help lift people up, Mother Teresa sort of organisation to me.
Hence yeah, people donāt like BLM. Some donāt like what it stands for, while others, like me, donāt like it because the founders used it as a massive vehicle for grifting and lining their own pockets.
The idea behind Black Lives Matter is not a brand, though. People who support the cause are simply supporting equity and progress. These fundamentals donāt change just because one person affiliated with the marketing of the idea may be questionable.
There are multiple segments to BLM, since the fight for progress takes multiple fronts. And indeed, the head of Black Lives Matter Greater New York City, which is not affiliated with Khan-Cullorsā Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, called for āan independent investigationā to find out how the global network spends its money.
And it turns out that the reason Patrice, the woman buying homes youāre referencing in bad faith, acquired some personal wealth from having a best selling book from back in 2018, and a television deal to produce content with Warner Bros.
Iām sure her earning wealth through program advocacy and people reading stuff wonāt change anything about how you feel about them, though.
I agree the larger philosophy behind BLM isnāt a brand, but the slogan āBLMā is a brand.
To me personally, BLM is kind of stupid, the correct slogan we should all be wearing is ACAB, because from everything I have seen, US police are just as happy assaulting and killing anyone who gets in their way, regardless of colour. Cops in the US just want to kill people, itās an us versus them mentality, and Iād say itās pretty colour blind, like those 5 Nashville black cops who tortured and killed that black motorist. And I remember seeing the Atlanta BLM protests in 2020, and there were loads of black cops horrifically beating protestors too. Itās honestly not a black problem, itās a blue vs everyone else problem.
And then some of the absolute worst police killings Iāve seen have been white cops killing white people, such as Daniel Shaver, Ryan Whitaker, and Officer Longman of Utah.
Some cops are definitely racially biased, but itās hardly Mississippi Burning anymore, even in the South. What is a problem is a general militarisation of police and complete lack of oversight or consequences for their actions.
But make no mistake, any cop would just love to kill you to make his or her day, whether youāre white or black.
Itās completely a brand. Itās founded on the false assertion that most people think that black people donāt matter and they should die. Telling black people they need to be upset and feel bad that everyone everywhere is out to get them, and tells white people they need to make amends for things theyāre never done.
Thereās a bunch of different autonomous groups, with no one āfounder.ā This has always been the single talking point that the fox news crowd loves to parrot to sound like a āgotchaā when they want to be racist but are too cowardly to show who they really are. If thatās not obvious by now, then idk what to tell you, except that arguing against human rights and for police brutality is not going to endear you to people.
https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/474143254
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/474143254
Noā¦ Thereās a proper 501-C that exists. So yes, there is a founder. While a lot of the marches are not necessarily associated directly with the organization, a lot of the donations get pooled into the organization. They make plenty of money doing it too.
Edit: Thereās also orgs likeā¦
As well associated with people like Khan-Cullors (https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/)
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Oh cool dig!