Never knew the racial history of Coke and Pepsi, segregation, etc.

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She left alot out. Pepsi actually had more than that black sales team. They also hired black people for manager positions in different regions of the south and gave them equal pay to white people. They double down when the white folks boycotted them. I cant remember if it was a book or documentary but it was years ago when I was in college where i first researched this in a business class. My elders always dranked Pepsi so I remembered that :ohhh: moment when i found out why. Business wars podcast also touched on the bottle wars as well.
 

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She left alot out. Pepsi actually had more than that black sales team. They also hired black people for manager positions in different regions of the south and gave them equal pay to white people. They double down when the white folks boycotted them. I cant remember if it was a book or documentary but it was years ago when I was in college where i first researched this in a business class. My elders always dranked Pepsi so I remembered that :ohhh: moment when i found out why. Business wars podcast also touched on the bottle wars as well.
 

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2025:

PepsiCo is scaling back its DEI commitments, in line with demands from US President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Coca-Cola reaffirms its support for DEI





Thus it’s clear Coca-Cola still won’t even consider ridding the company of DEI rot. Therefore Quincey doubled-down on making materially false and misleading statements to shareholders
 

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2025:

PepsiCo is scaling back its DEI commitments, in line with demands from US President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Coca-Cola reaffirms its support for DEI




Wow the irony
 

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Wow the irony

there is no morality among corporations. only allegiance to shareholders.

my assumption would be, because coke is headquartered in atlanta, and deeply embedded within the city's business community, the backlash would be devastating.

apart from that, black people do not need to remain loyal to any one brand based off of past history. when the republican party went after southern dixiecrats, we changed our affiliation to the democratic party. when target, pepsi, walmart and the like, spit in our face after years of support, there should've been a mass movement of disaffiliation. but we have no core leadership, so we get tossed around like a dried cumrag.
 
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