Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter added a link at the top of its website directing users to a Black Lives Matter website — operated by ActBlue Charities — calling for “a national defunding of police” and soliciting donations.
Computer processor giant Intel pledged $1 million to support “social justice” and “anti-racism” via “various nonprofits and community organizations,” announced company CEO Bob Swan in a statement declaring, “Black lives matter. Period.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook linked the death of George Floyd to a “much longer history of racism” and “deeply rooted discrimination” in a statement.
“Black lives matter,” declared Microsoft as part of its promise to implement racial personnel quotas as it works towards “addressing racial injustice.”
American colleges and universities continue to spend millions on “diversity” initiatives even as they prepare to demand billions in bailout cash from the federal government in response to the Chinese virus pandemic.
Butler University’s Jordan College of the Arts (JCA) canceled an entire day of classes in order to hold discussions on “diversity and inclusion.” The dean of JCA said that while cancelling one day of classes “wasn’t easy,” it was important to do.
Two Ivy League Universities announced recently that they are dropping the GRE requirement for graduate program applicants over concerns that the exam is “culturally biased.”
Dillard University President Walter Kimbrough argued that historically black colleges succeed because they don’t enroll “racist” students.
Colorado College announced last week that they will be dropping the SAT and ACT tests from its list of requirements for admission, to “increase the diversity of its student body.”
Indiana University Southeast is instructing its students to say “ouch!” when they are offended by someone’s language.
Stanford University announced in August that they will launch a physics course that is specifically designed for students from “underrepresented groups” who “don’t have the same level of preparation from high school as their majority peers.”
Teachers at Cherry Creek School District in Colorado were asked to take a “white privilege” survey to make sure that they “reflect on their own racial identity and to think about how their experience in the world shapes their identity.”
The University of Florida’s diversity officer recently launched a new podcast, but no one on campus is listening. The podcast has gained just 100 downloads across its first three episodes.
