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Speaker 1: Pastor Jamaal Bryant, you know, obviously a giant in the
Speaker 1: world of you know, theology, but this is a business
Speaker 1: conversation and you've done something interesting. You've played a major
Speaker 1: part in the boycott of Targets. So I want to
Speaker 1: talk about a few different things, but we got to
Speaker 1: start there, right So for our audience and people that
Speaker 1: may not be all the way tapped in with everything
Speaker 1: that's been going on, can you talk about why Target
Speaker 1: was selected, the demands that you know, you guys have
Speaker 1: for Target, where the boycott stands now like give us
Speaker 1: the whole rundown.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So, first of all, thank you family forgiving me
Speaker 4: an opportunity. There were fourteen fortune five hundred companies that
Speaker 4: walked away from DEI after the inauguration of Donald John Trump,
Speaker 4: and we decided that we would follow the African properb
Speaker 4: The best way to eat an elephant is one piece
Speaker 4: at a time. So we focused on Target first, not last,
Speaker 4: not only first. And we want to tell you all
Speaker 4: why number one, ashamedly and embarrassingly, black people spend twelve
Speaker 4: million dollars a day in Target number two without there
Speaker 4: being any protests, without there being any demonstration. After the
Speaker 4: killing of George Floyd, the president and CEO of Target,
Speaker 4: they are headquartered in Minneapolis, same place where George Floyd
Speaker 4: was killed, came out and had a press conference and said,
Speaker 4: watch the language. Family, George Floyd could have been one
Speaker 4: of my employees, not colleagues, not staff, one of my employees.
Speaker 4: So they made a commitment of two billion dollars that
Speaker 4: they were going to invest in black business. They after
Speaker 4: the inauguration, walked away from it. So we asked for
Speaker 4: four things. The first, if black people are spending twelve
Speaker 4: million dollars a day in target invest a quarter of
Speaker 4: a billion into black banks so black people can have
Speaker 4: access to capital, to stop businesses and to buy homes.
Speaker 4: Number two, there are twenty seven targets on college campuses.
Speaker 4: None of them are on HBCUs. So we asked them
Speaker 4: to partner with six HBCUs and told them to pick
Speaker 4: whatever six HBCUs they wanted for their business programs so
Speaker 4: that they could scale, so that they could franchise, and
Speaker 4: so they could roll out. I'm embarrassed that this is
Speaker 4: the largest boycot for black people. It's seventy years since
Speaker 4: the Montgomery bus boycott, and his was crazy. We didn't
Speaker 4: have a black owned franchise to redirect people too. We
Speaker 4: HI five and people to go to Costco as if
Speaker 4: that's given back to us. Number four three was that
Speaker 4: they would honor the George Floyd commitment of two billion dollars.
Speaker 4: In Number four, we gave them a blank check and said,
Speaker 4: you all rewrite DEI. You don't have to be called that,
Speaker 4: doesn't have to be named that, but show us a
Speaker 4: pathway where black people can make it to the C
Speaker 4: suites and not just work in the warehouse. And so
Speaker 4: that's where it is. We're eighteen weeks later, and I
Speaker 4: am so appreciative to your audience to help make this happen.
Speaker 4: The valuation of Target has dropped by twelve billion. The
Speaker 4: stock has dropped from one hundred and forty five dollars
Speaker 4: a share to ninety three dollars a share. Foot traffic
Speaker 4: is down by seven point nine percent, and four weeks
Speaker 4: ago they slashed the CEO's salary by forty two percent,
Speaker 4: and all of it is thanks to us taking the
Speaker 4: quans of principle of cooperative economics.
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