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"“I was appalled by the decision,” John Boyd Jr., president and founder of the National Black Farmers Association, said in an interview. “I see this as rolling back the clock with race relations — because the country is so divided on race, especially in rural America.”" apnews.com/article/trac...
Black farmers' association calls for Tractor Supply CEO's resignation after company cuts DEI effortsapnews.com The National Black Farmers Association is calling on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO to step down, days after the rural retailer announced that it would drop most of its corporate diversity and cli...
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Businesses are going to do what makes them money. They gotta stay in business. Their customer base is largely rural Americans who don't care about these things. It makes no fiscal sense to spend money on programs to satisfy people who aren't your customers. It's unfortunate but understandable to me.
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Can't respond to everyone individually: I tend believe business is profit driven and decisions follow. They may be bad decisions but not driven by Snidely Whiplash levels of do-baddery. Being publicly traded is even more reason to doubt they'd piss people off for no reason 🤷‍♂️
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for the past two years while they loudly and proudly touted their best in class DEI programs, for which they had won accolades in business journals, their stock did nothing but climb some jagoff got mad about them sponsoring a pride event and their stock tumbled
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after a brief recovery following the reactionary changes it is again trending downward
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aw, did he block me or did he get blocked? ...anyways
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He’s on a block run now I guess