McDONALD’S SHOULD CUT THE CRAP! WHEN HAS ANYONE IN CA BEEN
IN A McDONALD’S THAT HIRED ANYONE BUT MEXICANS AND CONDUCTED BIZ IN SPANISH???
McDonald’s
Changes Social Media Profile Name to ‘Amplifying Black Voices’
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McDonald’s
has changed its Twitter display name to
“Amplifying Black Voices,” adding a profile banner that lists Trayvon Martin,
Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Botham Jean, Atatiana Jefferson, Ahmaud Arbery,
and George Floyd as victims of “racism” and “systemic oppression.”
The brand’s Twitter banner
reads:
Trayvon Martin.
Michael Brown. Alton Sterling. Botham Jean. Atatiana Jefferson. Ahmaud Arbery.
George Floyd.
He was one of us. She was one
of us. They were all one of us. We seem them in our customers. We see them in
our crew members. We see them in our franchisees. And this is why the entire
McDonald’s family grieves. It’s why we stand for them and any other victims of
systemic oppression and violence. Today with stand with Black communities
across America. Which is why we’re donating to the National Urban League and
the NAACP. We do not tolerate inequity, injustice, or racism.
“Black trans women have a very
simple message: stop killing us,” the international corporation relayed in a
video created by Imara Jones, a fellow of George Soros’s Open Society
Foundations.
“Black trans women have a very simple
message: stop killing us” – @imarajoneshttps://t.co/KLsZbLzH7i pic.twitter.com/F7IGLPlAK4
— Amplifying Black Voices (@McDonalds) June 29, 2020
McDonald’s shared a quote
asking about the volume of “black storytelling” in video games.
“I encourage kids to protest like me and to
use their voices to stop racism” – @wyntaamor1213https://t.co/Pg6AfiFbCv pic.twitter.com/sslojIvYp8
— Amplifying Black Voices (@McDonalds) June 29, 2020
“When I think of Black art, there’s a
certain texture of expression” – @thisismarkc https://t.co/vCe2TMeLNi pic.twitter.com/kLvjB4qMzd
— Amplifying Black Voices (@McDonalds) June 29, 2020
“Anti-racist research” is
needed to examine “racist policy,” according to a quote shared by the brand.
“There’s not enough anti-racist research
figuring out what’s wrong with racist policy” – @DrIbram https://t.co/4tEX0Mr6fM pic.twitter.com/nAefAc7QGr
— Amplifying Black Voices (@McDonalds) June 28, 2020
McDonald’s aligned itself with NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s allegation that
a “noose” had been placed in his garage.
— Amplifying Black Voices (@McDonalds) June 22, 2020
“You’re not going to stop hearing about the
Black driver for years” – @BubbaWallace https://t.co/GrHdDykrIP pic.twitter.com/bxdVf2MlKB
— Amplifying Black Voices (@McDonalds) June 28, 2020
McDonald’s also shared its political messaging via Instagram and
Facebook — though it has not changed the display names on those accounts. It
has not yet posted any BLM-related content on its Pinterest page.
Weeks ago, the company announced its intent to donate $1 million to the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National
Urban League.
McDonald’s launched a “Black and Positively Golden” section on its
website, including a
related Instagram account, described by the restaurant chain as “a new
movement to uplift communities through education, empowerment, and
entrepreneurship. It tells stories of truth, power, and pride, and focuses on
the people and places that are the greatest expression of Black excellence.”
On the “Global Diversity,
Inclusion & Community Engagement” of its website, McDonald’s describes
itself as “committed to diversity.”
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Trump Family Files New Suit to Block Niece's Memoir
Jun 28, 2020
A day after a Queens County Surrogate's Court dismissed his initial June 23 motion, President Donald J. Trump's brother, Robert S. Trump, filed a new lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court in Dutchess County, once again seeking to block publication of Mary L. Trump's forthcoming tell-all, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
The June 26 filing, which is nearly identical to the Trump family's defective June 23 effort, is based on a sweeping confidentiality clause agreed to in 2001, when the estate of the president’s father, Fred Trump Sr., was settled. The suit seeks to block publication of the book, as well as a declaration that Mary L. Trump has breached her confidentiality agreement, and potential damages. The action also names the book's publisher, Simon & Schuster, as a defendant.
On the S&S website, the forthcoming book is described as a “revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him," and claims to offer insight into how Trump "became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.” The publisher's catalog copy describes Mary L. Trump as a trained clinical psychologist as well as the president’s only niece. The book is scheduled for a July 28 publication.
According to a report on the website Law.com, Trump family attorney Charles B. Harder told Dutchess County Supreme Court justice Hal B. Greenwald in a June 26 memo that the Trump family hoped to move quickly to avoid "the situation presented in the recent case of United States v. Bolton," in which a federal judge declined to issue a restraining order blocking the publication of former national security adviser John Bolton's memoir of his 18 months in the Trump administration, The RooWhere it Happened, noting that the book had already been widely distributed.
Lawyers for Mary L. Trump and for S&S also wrote to the judge, insisting that the action seeks to impose what is clearly an unconstitutional prior restraint.
"Regardless of Mr. Trump’s efforts to make this seem like a small dispute about the breach of a confidentiality provision in a Settlement Agreement—to which Simon & Schuster is not a party—the relief he requests is among the most extraordinary remedies a litigant can request under the law, a prior restraint of speech on a matter of public interest," wrote S&S attorney Elizabeth McNamara in a June 26 letter to the court, requesting that S&S be allowed to brief this issue before any order to show cause or other provisional relief is entered.
In her June 26 letter to the court, Mary L. Trump's lawyer, Anne Champion, indicated that Mary L. Trump will fight the motion to block publication, and also requested the opportunity to fully brief the court. "The First Amendment unquestionably protects Ms. Trump's right to participate in the electoral debate by writing and having published her work concerning the President's character and fitness for office," Champion wrote, "and it independently protects the right of Defendant Simon & Schuster, Inc., to publish it as well."
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