Back in July, 13 Republican state attorneys general created a stir when they ripped the leaders of America’s 100 biggest companies for explicit race-based hiring — as in the anti-white variety.
In a letter to the cream of the U.S. business crop, the AGs noted the prevalence of “racial discrimination under the guise of affirmative action.” “Sadly,” the group said in the letter, “racial discrimination in employment and contracting is all too common among Fortune 100 companies and other large businesses.”
This week, a report by Bloomberg News proved the GOP AGs correct.
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Bloomberg analyzed data compiled by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which requires companies with at least 100 employees to annually report their workforce demographics.
Bloomberg reported that its intent was see how major companies kept promises to fix alleged “racial imbalances” on their staffs in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in custody of Minneapolis police and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests and riots.
The outlet obtained data for 2020 and 2021 from 88 of those elite 100 companies and calculated overall job growth at those firms.
Collectively, those companies increased their U.S. workforces by about 323,000 people in 2021, the first year after BLM outbursts, and the most recent year for which this data exists.
“The overall job growth included 20,524 White workers,” Bloomberg noted. “The other 302,570 jobs — or 94% of the headcount increase — went to people of color.”
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“The biggest shifts happened in less-senior job categories. White people held fewer of those roles in 2021 than they did in 2020, whereas thousands of people of color were added to the ranks,” Bloomberg added. “But the trend continued up the job ladder in top, high-paid jobs, too: Companies increased their racial diversity among executives, managers, and professionals.”
When companies cut jobs in 2021, 69% of those belonged to whites.
On Wednesday, conservative commentator Matt Walsh was alone among media figures who pointed out the reverse racism at work.
“These are the kinds of numbers that appear at first glance to be impossible, but they’re not impossible,” Walsh said on his podcast.
“The biggest corporations in the United States with the best funded legal departments in the entire world implemented this virtually absolute ban on hiring whites without any regard to the hallowed Civil Rights Act.”
“And there was not a single news story about it. There was not a single member of Congress, of either party who paid any attention to the fact that 94% of new hires among the biggest corporations in the United States were non-white,” he added.
“This is systemic racism.”
Walsh continued, “This is a massive and unprecedented catastrophe. Nothing like this has happened in modern history. … It’s the corporations at the very top of the heap. The ones with the most power and the lobbyists who can control public policy. They’re the ones who are pushing this. They’re the ones driving the overt anti-white racism that we now see every day and everywhere in society.”
It’s unclear what the effect of Bloomberg’s report will be for those 13 Republican attorneys general.
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Yet they made it clear they would be watching and act accordingly.
The AGs issued their letter in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions.
“In an inversion of the odious discriminatory practices of the distant past, today’s major companies adopt explicitly race-based initiatives which are similarly illegal. These discriminatory practices include, among other things, explicit racial quotas and preferences in hiring, recruiting, retention, promotion, and advancement,” the AGs wrote.
“Such overt and pervasive racial discrimination in the employment and contracting practices of Fortune 100 companies compels us to remind you of the obvious: Racial discrimination is both immoral and illegal.”
“Well-intentioned racial discrimination is just as illegal as invidious discrimination,” they added. “Treating people differently because of the color of their skin, even for benign purposes, is unlawful and wrong. Companies that engage in racial discrimination should and will face serious legal consequences.”
That letter was signed by the AGs in Kansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana, Nebraska, Iowa, South Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi, Missouri and Montana.
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