NYT, Corporations, Vocal About Racial Justice, Go Quiet on Voting
Rights, starts off this way: As Black Lives Matter
protesters filled the streets last summer, many of the
country s largest corporations expressed solidarity and pledged
support for racial justice. But now, with lawmakers around the
country advancing restrictive voting rights bills that would have a
disproportionate impact on Black voters, corporate America has gone
quiet. The author is talking about new voting laws just
passed in Georgia and the reluctance, with some exceptions, of the
largest corporations to say anything or do anything-beyond anodyne
statements of support for voting rights in general-that might