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Speaker 1: Pastor Jamaal Bryant, you know, obviously a giant in the

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Speaker 1: world of you know, theology, but this is a business

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Speaker 1: conversation and you've done something interesting. You've played a major

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Speaker 1: part in the boycott of Targets. So I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about a few different things, but we got to

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Speaker 1: start there, right So for our audience and people that

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Speaker 1: may not be all the way tapped in with everything

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Speaker 1: that's been going on, can you talk about why Target

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Speaker 1: was selected, the demands that you know, you guys have

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Speaker 1: for Target, where the boycott stands now like give us

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Speaker 1: the whole rundown.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So, first of all, thank you family forgiving me

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Speaker 4: an opportunity. There were fourteen fortune five hundred companies that

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Speaker 4: walked away from DEI after the inauguration of Donald John Trump,

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Speaker 4: and we decided that we would follow the African properb

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Speaker 4: The best way to eat an elephant is one piece

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Speaker 4: at a time. So we focused on Target first, not last,

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Speaker 4: not only first. And we want to tell you all

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Speaker 4: why number one, ashamedly and embarrassingly, black people spend twelve

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Speaker 4: million dollars a day in Target number two without there

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Speaker 4: being any protests, without there being any demonstration. After the

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Speaker 4: killing of George Floyd, the president and CEO of Target,

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Speaker 4: they are headquartered in Minneapolis, same place where George Floyd

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Speaker 4: was killed, came out and had a press conference and said,

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Speaker 4: watch the language. Family, George Floyd could have been one

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Speaker 4: of my employees, not colleagues, not staff, one of my employees.

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Speaker 4: So they made a commitment of two billion dollars that

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Speaker 4: they were going to invest in black business. They after

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Speaker 4: the inauguration, walked away from it. So we asked for

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Speaker 4: four things. The first, if black people are spending twelve

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Speaker 4: million dollars a day in target invest a quarter of

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Speaker 4: a billion into black banks so black people can have

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Speaker 4: access to capital, to stop businesses and to buy homes.

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Speaker 4: Number two, there are twenty seven targets on college campuses.

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Speaker 4: None of them are on HBCUs. So we asked them

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Speaker 4: to partner with six HBCUs and told them to pick

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Speaker 4: whatever six HBCUs they wanted for their business programs so

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Speaker 4: that they could scale, so that they could franchise, and

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Speaker 4: so they could roll out. I'm embarrassed that this is

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Speaker 4: the largest boycot for black people. It's seventy years since

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Speaker 4: the Montgomery bus boycott, and his was crazy. We didn't

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Speaker 4: have a black owned franchise to redirect people too. We

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Speaker 4: HI five and people to go to Costco as if

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Speaker 4: that's given back to us. Number four three was that

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Speaker 4: they would honor the George Floyd commitment of two billion dollars.

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Speaker 4: In Number four, we gave them a blank check and said,

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Speaker 4: you all rewrite DEI. You don't have to be called that,

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Speaker 4: doesn't have to be named that, but show us a

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Speaker 4: pathway where black people can make it to the C

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Speaker 4: suites and not just work in the warehouse. And so

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Speaker 4: that's where it is. We're eighteen weeks later, and I

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Speaker 4: am so appreciative to your audience to help make this happen.

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Speaker 4: The valuation of Target has dropped by twelve billion. The

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Speaker 4: stock has dropped from one hundred and forty five dollars

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Speaker 4: a share to ninety three dollars a share. Foot traffic

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Speaker 4: is down by seven point nine percent, and four weeks

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Speaker 4: ago they slashed the CEO's salary by forty two percent,

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Speaker 4: and all of it is thanks to us taking the

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Speaker 4: quans of principle of cooperative economics.

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Speaker 2: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child

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