Are corporate boycotts today the enemy of the good? Companies making knee-jerk reactions cost local communities and small businesses real income and job loss. What makes it especially bad is these companies obviously didn't read the law and went along with dishonest talking points. Work to change laws and help the communities, don't pull out and hurt them. These knee-jerk reactions result in a form of economic bullying and the dangerous precedent that un-elected mega-corps boardrooms can over-ride the will of the voters. The very real fallout is hurting innocent people, small businesses, and in Atlanta, mostly black Americans.
- Opening to the show is a report by Fox 5 Atlanta.
MLB's decisions cost Atlanta an estimated $100 million in lost revenue. Laws can be changed, this money and the good it does is lost forever.Atlanta small business owners are not happy. To fight "racists" laws, MLB moves a $100 million game from mostly black Atlanta to uber-white Denver CO, that has STRICTER voting laws than GA?Full text of the Georgia voting law.Fact-check of the 6 biggest claims opponents of the GA bill make. The GA bill is not Jim Crow. This was Jim Crow. To cap off the hypocrisy, many of the companies boycotting the state use modern slavery to make their products.Here is the ever-great Ami Horowitz doing his man on the street on the common talking points about blacks and ID.