Derek Johnson

This is about taking away a right to vote.

And for these very same individuals, when you say you got to have a photo ID to vote, well, they will push back hard against having a national ID requirement to buy firearms.

So this is not about saving or securing because if you want to save and secure, what about all of the children who've been killed in mass shootings across the country?

And the fix there is this universal ID or need a passport to purchase gun.

This is about maintaining domination and control at the ballot box.

but it's unfortunate particularly for those companies that are consumer facing uh the tale of two realities is target versus all costco's a target is struggling they're going to have a continued quarterly loss while costco's continue to grow uh brand awareness is deep in our community and over time uh some of these companies will not survive we only represent 13 of the total population while at the exact same time we make up a significant uh

uh number in terms of profit margins for some of these companies and so there was no reason for target to to be uh wishy-washy on the issue of of ensuring that diversity equity and inclusion is part of it and you see the the opposite with costcos who profits have gone through the roof as a result of their position the same thing with the law firms that capitulated to the this administration signing

those bogus MOUs just for the short-term game of mergers and acquisition business.

And the ones who just won in court last week and now still have their M&A business, but yet a stronger standing within the community.

uh this moment won't last forever we're we have become a much more diverse uh country uh we have a set of of companies that realize that wait a minute this is about the long term not the short term diversity is their business model because their market growth are in all of our communities and so for us when those companies come back is is a real conversation and for some of them uh i don't think there is there isn't any coming back

We would love for you to come join us, be sustainers, NAACP.org.

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We are needed more now than ever before.

Part of what we do is to make democracy work for everyone.

In our founding, it wasn't just about the African-American community.

It was many people sat around that table of founders.

And during that time, no one was white.

Because if he was Irish Catholic, he was not considered white, or Jewish was not considered white, or any number of communities that was outside of the WASP community.

And over time, the class of whiteness opened up.