You'll recall he was the first CEO to stand up for humanity, after Trump's "very fine people" defense of the white supremacists / killers who attacked peaceful demonstrators in Charlottesville, in August of 2017. He's again put his reputation on the line, to speak up for people who've been without a voice. He correctly said that the Minneapolis officer would never have been charged, absent the protests. It is sad -- but it is true. Here's the whole article -- and a bit:
. . .Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier told CNBC on Monday that George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died at the hands of Minneapolis police, could have been him.
"What the African American community sees in that videotape is that this African American man, who could be me or any other African American man, is being treated as less than human. . . .
Frazier also said business leaders can be a “unifying force” in helping to calm a nation convulsed by protests over police brutality and economic destruction from the coronavirus. . . .
“What the community saw was, until they went out into the streets, this officer — much less even the other officers — was not even going to be arrested for what was clearly inhumane treatment of a citizen,” Frazier said.
He noted racial inequities across U.S. society, from education to health care to the criminal justice system.
“Even though we don’t have laws that separate people on the basis of race anymore, we still have customs, we still have beliefs, we still have policies and practices that lead to inequities,” Frazier said. . . .
Do go read it all. He is right -- just as he was in 2017. It is BEYOND time. . . that white people, PROACTIVELY, take ownership of, and aggressively advocate against the system that treats people of color as less than white ones. Join him, in trying to be more visible in your efforts to resist the old ways of doing things. Please. . . .
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