Al Sharpton threatens black boycott against companies dropping DEI programs: ‘You want to put us back in the back of the bus’

Race activist Al Sharpton announced a boycott against companies that drop enforcing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies after newly inaugurated President Donald Trump issued an executive order against DEI.

Sharpton posted the threat on social media with a statement comparing himself to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.

‘Two companies will then be subjected this spring to a boycott by Black Americans.’

“Why do we have DEl? We have DEl because you denied us diversity, you denied us equity, you denied us inclusion. DEl was a remedy to the racial institutionalized bigotry practice in academia and in these corporations. Now, if you want to put us back in the back of the bus, we gonna do the Dr. King-Rosa Parks on you,” Sharpton said

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