The CEO of Target with the host of MSNBC, the Rev. Al Sharpton, on Thursday, when the organization of the letter exerts pressure on the companies that previously written the initiatives ofi (diversity, equity and inclusion).
Sharpton with Brian Cornell, CEO of Target, to discuss how Sharpton has encouraged his followers to boycott the chain, since he has reduced his efforts.
The news of the meeting was first reported by CNBC.
The call of the meeting with Cornell “very constructive and sincere”, and said that “would inform our allies, including Reverend Dr. Jamal Bryant, or our discussion, what my feelings are, and we will go from there.”
Bryant is an Atlanta shepherd who organized an objective of Lent to protest the reduction of his Dei policies.
Fox News Digital contacted Target, Cornell and Sharpton to comment, but did not immediately receive an answer.
In a statement reported to CNBC, Sharpton said Target communicated with him for the meeting.
“You can’t have a choice and, suddenly, change your old positions,” Sharpton said. “If an election determines its commitment to justice, then, you have the right to withdraw from us, but then we have the right to retire from you.”
In January, President Donald Trump signed the executive order “that ended illegal discrimination and restoration of the opportunity based on merit”, which ordered the federal agencies to put an end to all the practices of Dei and ask the private sector to “end the discrimination and illegal preferences of Dei”.
On February 20, Florida’s attorney general James Uthmmeier filed a collective claim before the first legal and lawyers of the United States Boyden Gray and Lawson Huck González against Target for the alleged intentional deception of the company’s investors regarding their. “”
The Lawsuit Says That Target Shareholders Lost Tens of Billions of Dollars and That the Company “Assecly Misled” Investors, Claiming that they would Governance, or Government, or Government, or Government, or Government, Or Government, Or Government, Or Government, Or Government, Or Government or Government, or Government, or Government, Governance, or Governance, or Governance, governance or governance or governance or governance or governance or governance of or governance. Left activist groups.
Part of Target’s pride merchandise that attracted the headlines in 2023 included a one -piece swimsuit for adults with a “friendly construction for the Tuck” and “additional crotch coverage.”
According to reports, the retailer also sold chest binders.
After the launch of the merchandise, the store market value fell to $ 57.7 billion of $ 74 billion.
In a Thursday publication on Instagram, Sharpton wrote: “As attacks against diversity, equity and inclusion intensify throughout the country, we are standing, we do not go back. Dei is under siege, and some are acting as is Farnom. Straight action week.
