Coca-Cola Under Fire for Legally Questionable Racial Quota System (Photo by John Li/Getty Images) Alex Nester • April 28, 2021 4:30 pm
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An anti-discrimination group is challenging Coca-Cola’s attempt to impose racial quotas on outside counsel.
Writing on behalf of the Project on Fair Representation, D.C. attorney Boyden Gray accused Coca-Cola of violating the Civil Rights Act with a new rule, which would punish contracted law firms unless a certain percentage of their billed associates are diverse attorneys.
In the letter, a copy of which was obtained by the
Washington Free Beacon, Gray argues that policy violates federal law, which prohibit[s] all forms of racial discrimination in private contracting. Coca-Cola appears to be following the view of ‘antiracist’ activist Ibram X. Kendi, with their new requirement, Gray writes.
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