Posted on 05/31/2020 10:46:43 AM PDT by nwrep
To those who've been critical of the protesters who are looting and burning down Targets -- please, shut up. The CEO of Target has officially issued a statement in response to the nationwide protests in the wake of the recent murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Geoge Floyd. The CEO, Brian Cornell, penned an open letter in support of the protesters and communities across America that are constantly dealing with police brutality.
"We are a community in pain. That pain is not unique to the Twin Cities—it extends across America. The murder of George Floyd has unleashed the pent-up pain of years, as have the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. We say their names and hold a too-long list of others in our hearts. As a Target team, we’ve huddled, we’ve consoled, we’ve witnessed horrific scenes similar to what’s playing out now and wept that not enough is changing. And as a team we’ve vowed to face pain with purpose," reads the letter.
It’s hard to see now, but the day will come for healing—and our team will join our hearts, hands and resources in that journey. Even now, Target leaders are assembling community members, partners and local officials to help identify what more we can do together and what resources are required to help families, starting right here in Minnesota."
(Excerpt) Read more at hotnewhiphop.com ...
OK if I was a major shareholder in Target and I saw that this guy was basically playing patty cake with looters and thieves, I would liquidate my shares. He might as well have said “I know you good folk are just venting, so in order to help this process we do have more stores for you to loot and destroy. Fairy!
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Good points...
The CEO could have made a statement condemning looting... While acknowledging that peaceful protesters do have the first amendment right...
Why not?
Afraid of being called a racist?
This CEO sounds very naive...
Am I being too harsh if I have no respect for somebody that naive?
Gee, and here I thought Target was a mid-scale department store. I should have known better.
First the gender (vs sex) bathroom policy, then remodeling the store so it’s difficult to find items, now this craven, belly crawling statement after its stores are looted and burned.
Target is actually an SJW empathy collective.
I don’t give my money to SJWs or their allies of any stripe. I already didn’t shop there very much. Since I’m one of “those” ( straight white male), they probably didn’t want my business anyway.
Glad to oblige.
Agreed
No need for meeting with the community about want they need. They will just loot it as they see fit and burn the store when they are done.
This is just a “please don’t loot us.” That worked out some well before, lose don’t get violent, please go home, please don’t loot, please don’t burn our PD, etc.
Most insurance won’t cover civil unrest unless they pay extra. No idea if they do carry that.
White on Black murders in the USA is 1/2 of that of Black on White murders.
There are six times more whites in the USA than blacks. Thus adjusting for that the murder rate is 12 whites to 1 black in interracial murder. Derived from FBI data.
I ask, whom is the aggrieved race?
Another FReeper Posted that 93% of Black Homicide Victims were killed by other Blacks. I assume he was correct.
Good!
Then he can reimburse all the mom and pop stores for the damage done by "his kids".
Let the individual suits fly.
I’d boycott Target if I weren’t already doing so.
“Another FReeper Posted that 93% of Black Homicide Victims were killed by other Blacks. I assume he was correct.”
He is correct. The stats I was quoting concern only interracial crime.
Wow. At this point, I think the rioters would be doing us a favor if they burned every last Target store. I certainly won’t interfere if they try.
In my area, Target is all that’s really left.
No more K-Mart, no more Shopko.
Just what this world needs right now-another F’IDIOT
Damned. Why is this guy such a puke leftist, guilt-ridden smuck?
I just sold stock in Black Rock because its’ head is turning them into a ‘green program” investment company.
Not with my money he isn’t.
[he obviously uses the women’s bathroom]
I would guess he’s more into the non-gender-specific bathroom.
But then, I don’t really want to know...
LOL
[As a Target team, we’ve huddled, we’ve consoled, we’ve witnessed horrific scenes similar to what’s playing out now and wept that not enough is changing. And as a team we’ve vowed to face pain with purpose,” reads the letter.]
I doubt most of the firebombing terrorists will read that while they’re tossing their Molotov cocktails.
They will only want to know where the big-screen TV’s are located.
Only if you are in BLM or ANTIFA. if you are simply a WASP, then no, you can’t do it.
What a maroon. What are you going to tell your shares holders when their stocks go through the floor?
You are not being too hard on him. He is a weasel.
isn’t he Obama’s buttboy who allowed men to use the ladies restroom? Eff him. Bigtime.
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