patrick.net

Automan Empire says

The evidence I see is that an outside race hustling consultant used a "diversity training" gig with Coca Cola to trojan horse her radical ideas

This is the normal operating procedure as far as I can tell, with strong assistance from race hustlers on the inside, usually HR women.

The corporations know what they are getting and don't object out of abject fear of the leftist mob.

Do you really think that Coke is going to shitcan a bunch leftist harpies in their HR department?

Do you think they will sue not only to get their money back but for reputational damages from the WOKE people who put together this training?

No, they bent the knee.

Until corporations start fighting back we need to put as much pressure on them as possible.

Just think, the reserved parking space for Coach Lester White above could have a sign "White Only."

HeadSet says

Just think, the reserved parking space for Coach Lester White above could have a sign "White Only."

Oh man, that's excellent.

I have a friend with the last name White who lives in Seattle. I told him he should put "Whites Only" in his driveway for kicks. No way he'll do it, but I had to say it now.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/04/coca-cola-pauses-diversity-plan-after-chief-lawyer-resigns/

Coca-Cola pauses aggressive diversity plan after chief lawyer resigns

Coca-Cola has paused its controversial diversity plan — that included penalties on outside law firms if they failed to meet racial diversity quotas — after intense backlash.

The pause comes after the orchestrator of the plan, Coke’s former general counsel Bradley Gayton, abruptly resigned last month after less than a year on the job and as criticism of the quotas mounted.

Some questioned whether Gayton’s policies violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says employers can’t treat people differently based on their race.

Scott Leith, a spokesman for Coke, said Gayton’s replacement, Monica Howard Douglas, is now reviewing the plan.

“When there is a leadership change, it takes time for the new leader to review the current status of the team, organization and initiatives,” he said. “Monica is fully committed to the notions of equity and diversity in the legal profession, and we fully expect she will take the time necessary to thoughtfully review any plans going forward.”

In January, Gayton made headlines when he unveiled his plans to penalize outside law firms that failed to meet new diversity quotas by slashing their fees or cutting ties with them altogether.

Under the plan, any law firm seeking to do business with the company was required to commit that at least 30 percent of billed time would be from “diverse attorneys,” and at least half of that time would be from black attorneys.

I would say that it happened after sales were seriously effected and they fired their chief lawyer...

Coke is a brand that needs to fade into the chapter 11 woods.

zzyzzx says

I would say that it happened after sales were seriously effected and they fired their chief lawyer...

I'm never ever drinking a coke product again.

I also will never drink a coke product again. Though it's easy for me since I don't usually buy their products anyway.



OK, no more Minute Maid either.

Contacted InNOut, they only have coke products, just asking for alternative

Fortwaynemobile says

Contacted InNOut, they only have coke products, just asking for alternative

They have Dr.Pepper IIRC. This is not Coca-Cola asset in the US.

Why drink Sugar Poison on a regular basis to begin with?

True, it's good not to drink sugar water, but it's also good to let InNOut know you're not happy about Coke supporting BLM violence, arson, and extreme racism.

Coke wants you to be less White because Soda consumption in general is down 20% in the past 20 years - and most of that drop is due to Whites. Poor Minorities consume Soda at the same rate they did a generation ago.

I was kind of sad to hear that in the best coffee growing regions of Latin America, almost no one drinks coffee. They drink sugary canned drinks instead.

HeadSet says

mell says

You can drink Dr Pepper for the rare soda cravings, tastes better and is owned by a German billionaire family ;)

?? Germans own it? I though Dr Pepper was owned by an Massachusetts based coffee maker. Same company makes Sundrop, which is quite good if you can find the real sugar version that only comes in glass bottles. If you like Dr Pepper, you can substitute that flavor by combining seltzer water and prune juice. Next time you take a swig of Dr Pepper, see if it doesn't taste like carbonated prune juice.

https://www.handelsblatt.com/english/companies/keurig-merger-german-billionaires-buy-dr-pepper-snapple/23580906.html

Ah, so they are the ones that bought Peets out from under me!

I went to Peets for many years for my daily espresso, and finally bought the stock one day even though I thought it was overvalued with a p/e of 30-something if I remember right.

One week later, the company was sold to this Reimann family (now I know their name).

Schwab told me that I no longer owned the shares I bought, but it was all OK because I made $7,000 for owning the shares for a week.

https://ground.news/article/nc-county-bans-coca-cola-machines-in-county-buildings_e37afd

North Carolina county bans Coke vending machines because the company is too left wing
It comes after the company campaigned against new voting laws in Georgia

Patrick says

I was kind of sad to hear that in the best coffee growing regions of Latin America, almost no one drinks coffee.

Yes the worst coffee in the world is in South America. The Hotel we stayed at in Cusco, served the most vile swill in the morning. They called it Cafe Americano, it was Nescafe` ran through a Turkish coffee maker. It was black thick as mud and tasted like coffee that has been left burning in the coffee maker until it was condensed, scorched and stale. I mean they only had instant coffee back at the wife's house in Lima as well, but they didn't take the extra step to make even more shittier.

Patrick says

I have a friend with the last name White who lives in Seattle. I told him he should put "Whites Only" in his driveway for kicks.

Mark White (1940-2017) was governor of Texas from 1983 to 1987 in an earlier, less tetchy time. I remember on the night of his election a female news anchor saying something to the effect: "Look at all the White people gathering at the governor's mansion". I had a good laugh out of it and wondered how many other people saw it as funny and if she was excoriated by her employers for her remark.

Tenpoundbass says

Yes the worst coffee in the world is in South America. The Hotel we stayed at in Cusco, served the most vile swill in the morning. They called it Cafe Americano, it was Nescafe` ran through a Turkish coffee maker. It was black thick as mud and tasted like coffee that has been left burning in the coffee maker until it was condensed, scorched and stale. I mean they only had instant coffee back at the wife's house in Lima as well, but they didn't take the extra step to make even more shittier.

Agreed, same in Paraguay and Ecuador; they like instant Coffee crap a great deal. It's their default.

Wonder how Cokes bottom line was affected.

AmericanKulak says

Agreed, same in Paraguay and Ecuador; they like instant Coffee crap a great deal. It's their default.

This was also true in the Mideast. Somehow Nescafe is considered coffee. You'd think they would know better. Maybe things have changed since I was there, but I don't think so.

Booger says

I think that in Central/South America, Nescafe (instant coffee) was considered a status symbol when it first came out, and it just continued to sell well into the nineties, even as coffee drinking/Starbucks started ramping up in the US.

The family we stayed with in Costa Rica in 1995 used a cotton sock when they made their pour-over coffee.

brazil66 says

The family we stayed with in Costa Rica in 1995 used a cotton sock when they made their pour-over coffee.

My sister had a Columbian boyfriend who made coffee that way, and it was really excellent.

HunterTits says

1) Corporate Big Wigs Freak Out About Wokeness
2) Corporate Big Wigs Hire Some Consultant To Do A Program Or Something, Either External Or Internal Or Both
3) Consultant Is An Extremist Idiot That Institutes Something Devoid Of Common Sense Or Is Outright Jihadi Against One Group Of People
4) Woke Program Blows Up In Corporate Big Wigs Face, Either Legally, PR-wise, Staffing wise Or All Three.

5) Corporate wig gets a yuuge bonus.
6) Extremist idiot consultant gets paid anyway.
7) Rinse and repeat.

Wonder if Coke corporate knows about the Netherlands' Zwarte Piet? You want to get tolerant Dutch people up in arms telling you to go back where you came from if you don't like things? Just ask a question about Zwarte Piet!

Automan Empire says

Wonder if Coke corporate knows about the Netherlands' Zwarte Piet? You want to get tolerant Dutch people up in arms telling you to go back where you came from if you don't like things? Just ask a question about Zwarte Piet!

Bruderschaft der Schwarzhäupter

https://www.envisionreports.com/coca-cola24/proxy/HTML1/the_coca-cola_company-proxy2024_0116.htm

Shareowner Proposal

Requesting a Report on Risks Created by the Company’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts

National Center for Public Policy Research, 2005 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036, the beneficial owner for at least three years of shares of Company Common Stock having a market value of at least $2,000, submitted the following:

Report to Shareholders on Risks Created by the Company’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts

WHEREAS:
The US Supreme Court ruled in SFFA v. Harvard on June 29, 2023, that discriminating on the basis of race in college admissions
violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.1
Attorneys General of 13 States warned Fortune 100 companies on July 13, 2023, that SFFA implicated corporate diversity,
equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.2
Prior legal advice regarding the legality of racially discriminatory programs has been called into question post-SFFA.3
Recent analysis of American Fortune 100 hiring in the wake of the 2020 race riots found that whites were excluded from 94% of
the hiring decisions,4 a statistic that itself provides prima facie proof of illegal discrimination on the basis of race by these
companies, given that whites constitute 76% of the American population.5
It was reported in 2021 that Coca-Cola infamously instructed its employees to “be less white,” and that to be less white means
to be less “ignorant,” “oppressive” and “arrogant,” alongside a host of other false and discriminatory slurs.6 Ironically, this
blatant racism was part of an employee training seminar titled “Confronting Racism.” Today, the Company’s DEI webpage
reports that: “It is our aspiration by 2030 to have women hold 50% of senior leadership roles … and in the U.S. to have race and
ethnicity representation reflect national census data at all levels.”7 Meanwhile, the “Equity Accountability Councils” (EAC) page
reports that: “EACs will focus on economic equity for Asian Pacific, Black, and Hispanic communities.”8

RESOLVED:
Shareholders ask that the board commission and publish a report on (1) whether the Company engages in any practices
directly or indirectly associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that may create risks of discriminating
against individuals who might sue the Company (including employees, suppliers, contractors, and retained professionals) for
illegal discrimination on the basis of protected categories like race and sex, and (2) the potential costs of such discrimination to
the business.

SUPPORTING STATEMENT:
In just the past year, a corporation was successfully sued for a single case of discrimination against a white employee resulting in
an award of more than $25 million.9 The risk of being sued for such discrimination appears only to be rising.10 With roughly
700,000 employees,11 Coca-Cola likely has at least 525,000 employees who are potentially the victims of this type of illegal
discrimination because they are white, Asian, male, or straight.12 Accordingly, even if only 10 percent of such employees were to
file suit, and only 10 percent of those prove successful, the cost to the company could exceed $125 billion. And while racial
equity audits can cost up to $4 million, this report should cost much less, as it need review only the potentially discriminatory
programs, unless Coca-Cola has established so many such programs that its liability for this discrimination must be expected to
be much higher.

1 https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/students-for-fair-admissions-inc-v-president-fellows-of-harvard-college/
2 https://ag.ks.gov/docs/default-source/documents/corporate-racial-discrimination-multistate-letter.pdf?sfvrsn=968abc1a_2
3 https://freebeacon.com/democrats/starbucks-hired-eric-holder-to-conduct-a-civil-rights-audit-the-policies-he-blessed-got-the-coffee-maker-sued/
4 https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-equal-opportunity-corporate-diversity/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-flubs-data-for-bombshell-report-that-only-6-of-new-corporate-hires-are-white
5 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045222
6 https://nypost.com/2021/02/23/coca-cola-diversity-training-urged-workers-to-be-less-white/view pdf

It truly is amazing that we've gotten to this point. America is a shithole.

Putin recently said this of the United States.

“It is just a catastrophe — it is not democracy — what on earth is it?”

–Putin