In The Face Of 45's Hostility: Black Executives -- "Get Organized". Excellent NYT Story This Morning...

I'll let you read it all.

But the newly-assembled team here is right -- taking a page from the PAC playbook, of the odious Koch Bros. -- is a sadder, but wiser-, and undeniably now required-. . . move.

That is -- if you are going to form a truly impactful PAC -- make your candidates sign a pledge, for the money they get: a pledge toward full inclusion; a pledge toward favorable business immigration policies; toward sensible health care improvements. . . and on and on. But most of all: toward protecting the mid-20^th century and teens of the 21^st century civil rights gains (in many cases won only over dead bodies, and bloodshed) all of which are now under assault. . . .

[My August 2017 backgrounders here; and here.] Do go read it all:

. . . .Ronald Kirk, a former mayor of Dallas and a lawyer who served in the Obama administration, had the bluntest message. “You’re wasting your money,” he recalled saying. “My advice is: Get organized.”

It was a crystallizing moment. Many attendees had long been part of an informal group of friends and associates who raised money for philanthropies or policy issues on an ad hoc basis. At the dinner, they decided it was time to use their wealth and stature in a more formal way. . . .

The main organizers — including Charles Phillips, chief executive of the software company Infor; Tony Coles, head of the biotech firm Yumanity Therapeutics; Marva Smalls, global head of inclusion strategy for Viacom; and William M. Lewis Jr., co-chairman of investment banking at Lazard — are still in the planning stages for the PAC. . . .

The group has been increasingly stepping into the national debate about race and inequality. Two years ago, it funded screenings so that 320,000 students across the country could see “Selma,” the movie about a crucial moment in civil rights history. . . . And in August, it supported Kenneth C. Frazier, the chief executive of Merck and a member of the extended network, after President Trump criticized him. . . .

Now you know -- when you know better -- do better. . . . smile.



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