Every corporation that takes a “progressive” stance, or runs a “progressive” ad, is playing you. Nike makes their products in sweatshops. Coca-Cola employs death squads against union organizers in the Third World. Dove is owned by the same company as AXE, whose advertising objectifies and demeans women in the most crude and horrific ways. Any “progressive” stance taken by a corporation is only taken for the sake of its profit margins, and only applies where such a stance is profitable, and provides no material benefit to the oppressed. There is absolutely no reason to praise a corporation, under any circumstances. They do not care about you. Only profit.
So the last time I reblogged this, someone reblogged from me with a comment along the lines of “wait till you see them with swords”. So I went to search it up, and… guys. GUYS.
Civil Rights leader and Mississippi director of C.O.R.E. (Congress of Racial Equality) Dave Dennis breaks down while giving a eulogy at James Chenney’s funeral. Chenney was one of the three civil rights workers brutally murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964 during the Freedom Summer movement in Mississippi for trying to get black residents in the state to register to vote. The other two workers were Michael Schwemer and Andrew Goodman, both of whom were white Jews from New York. All three men’s bodies were disposed of in an earthen dam and weren’t discovered until August 4, 1964.
“Dave Dennis’ speech was a turning point in the summer because everybody wanted him to say the usual things that you would say at a funeral. And Dave Dennis just couldn’t do it. He challenged the people at the memorial and he challenged the whole movement.” -Bruce Watson, author
