Why don’t organizations give discounts to black people during BHM?

[Brolic]

Instead of donating money to cac/boule organizations or making Kente pattern clothing.

 

[Family Lives Matter]

Because that doesn't benefit the companies ran by white people why ask questions you know the answer to.

Plus let's be honest if a company tried this there would be outrage from both sides that they're treating black people different to other people


Plus how would companies determine who is "black"


Plus the other 900 common sense reasons

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

That’s illegal, and it would hurt their companies, because everyone else would boycott them.

 

[Brolic]

Because that doesn't benefit the companies ran by white people why ask questions you know the answer to.

Plus let's be honest if a company tried this there would be outrage from both sides that they're treating black people different to other people


Plus how would companies determine who is "black"


Plus the other 900 common sense reasons

Companies like Nike give discounts to health care workers, military, and students.
How does that benefit them?

They could do it discretely. Just make an online verification portal like Id.me or verify.me. Then email the discount code to black people.

 

[acri1]

Stupid thread is stupid.

It's illegal, would cause them to get boycotted, and people probably wouldn't even agree on who counts as black.

 

[Hey_zeus]

Corporations that owned slaves like Harvard University should be included in our reparations claim. But not like this

 

[knl14]

Companies like Nike give discounts to health care workers, military, and students.
How does that benefit them?

They could do it discretely. Just make an online verification portal like Id.me or verify.me. Then email the discount code to black people.

Positive PR. Your suggestion would be negative PR for anyone who isn’t considered black.

 

[Luke Cage]

If some white company tried to use black history month as a way to market products to black people, the backlash would be swift.

 

[Vilify]

Companies would have to give discounts year round since every group has a commemorative month. BHM is the only one that triggers people though.

 

[ImLionyall]

The same we reasons we haven't gotten reparations

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Companies like Nike give discounts to health care workers, military, and students.
How does that benefit them?

They could do it discretely. Just make an online verification portal like Id.me or verify.me. Then email the discount code to black people.

People BECOME students, military, healthcare workers. They weren’t born that way. And those aren’t excluding ethnicities.

 

[BlackJesus]

Instead of donating money to cac/boule organizations or making Kente pattern clothing.

Because they’d rather give us trinkets and symbolic gestures

 

[BlackJesus]

Question though, do other groups like Asians and Hispanics have their own discounts during their months?

 

[breakfuss]

THINK BEFORE PRESSING ‘POST NEW THREAD’

 

[buzzkill]

what would the companies do with people who are mixed or only a quarter black or any of these racially ambiguous people out here?

Maybe a more liberal company who's main demographic is black people can pull it off but a company like walmart isnt trying to piss off every other race to please one race of people.

they are trying to make as much profit as they can.