Dick's Sporting Goods' CEO Ed Stack sacrificed his salary for the good of coronavirus... only to get 6X the options award at the bottom of the market! Sacrifice is hard!! Also, we invent a new indicator: ever wonder what the percentage of people of color in the workforce is compared to pictures of people of color in corporate reports??
Citigroup, Google, Amazon, and Softbank headline the racial injustice hypocrites of the moment! You want to test for real progress? Check your board's white nominating committee!
The corporate response of hope-y change-y we-should-all-come-together-ness in the wake of the George Floyd murder and protests was not only obvious, it's a wonder oil slick of rhetoric! How BlackRock - who routinely votes "no" on diversity proxies, and Nike, who routinely votes "yes" to slick ads without hiring, you know, black people themselves, have a lot in common.
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