People Are Calling On Stores Like Target And Whole Foods To Take The 15 Percent Pledge (how much, companies)

That's a lot of Jheri Curl!

Originally Posted by Shiloh1

That's a lot of Jheri Curl!

Irony is that Jheri was white.

[FatBob96]

Originally Posted by burdell

As far as I'm concerned one of the things it means is judging a product by the race of those who own the company that produced it rather than by the quality of the product itself.

What's next?

Demanding that customers buy 15% black owned products in order to shop there?

[No_Recess]

Originally Posted by FatBob96

Capitalism is driven by supply and demand.

That doesn't mean that 10% of the people can demand to dictate 15% of the product selection out a desire for "fairness" if the sales don't support it.

It's up to the owner.

Bill sells ham sandwiches and turkey sandwiches.

90% of his customers want the ham sandwiches but Bill only wants to sell turkey...for whatever reason.

Well, the market will self-correct that in the end.

Whatever.

[No_Recess]

Originally Posted by burdell

As far as I'm concerned one of the things it means is judging a product by the race of those who own the company that produced it rather than by the quality of the product itself.

If there's enough pressure I assume the owners will take notice. If not, the market will sort it out.

Capitalism just works.

[Corrie22]

so now the black trash is trying to profit off the well to do blacks

[FatBob96]

Originally Posted by No_Recess

It's up to the owner.

Bill sells ham sandwiches and turkey sandwiches.

90% of his customers want the ham sandwiches but Bill only wants to sell turkey...for whatever reason.

Well, the market will self-correct that in the end.

Whatever.

Up to the owner yes.

That doesn't mean being subject to "demands" based on anything other than market demands.

You don't let 15% of people dictate 15% of your products if they don't buy 15% of your products.

[k350]

Aurora James obviously does not know jack squat regarding math.

Also, is a racist.

[k350]

Originally Posted by FatBob96

What's next?

Demanding that customers buy 15% black owned products in order to shop there?

It is sort of what the USSR was doing. In order to move less in demand products, like pickled garlic, to buy eggs a person was forced to buy the pickled garlic also.

[Jardine8]

Part of me really wonders what the Hispanic and Asian communities are thinking as they live here with us and watch this play out. Those two groups of people have received comparatively little help and have complained relatively little as well, other than some complaints from Hispanics about ICE raids. For the most part, those groups came to the U.S., have generally worked hard and tried to make it here without demands and concessions from the party/parties in power. Some of them truly have made it and are living a better life because the U.S. does have more opportunities than their home countries. Do you think they look at this and think it is nuts or do you think they are sympathetic to BLM?