Largest private employer in US pledged to tackle inequities after George Floyd murder but has now dropped initiatives<\/p>\n
A year after the murder of George Floyd, Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart had a warning for corporate America<\/a>. The death of Floyd triggered a wave of protest over systemic racism and was \u201cnot an isolated event. We have a long history of racism, and we see unacceptable events continue.\u201d<\/p>\n Walmart and other large US corporations made pledges to address inequities within their business, ones many feared would be dropped once the focus on Floyd\u2019s killing and its aftermath faded. \u201cWe can\u2019t let that be the case,\u201d he wrote, outlining how the company was releasing its \u201cdiversity metrics twice a year\u201d and calling on companies to \u201ccontinue to address systemic racism and the structural inequities that are rooted in this nation\u2019s history of slavery and that persist today\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Largest private employer in US pledged to tackle inequities after George Floyd murder but has now dropped initiatives A year after the murder of George Floyd, Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart had a warning for corporate America. The death of Floyd triggered a wave of protest over systemic racism and was \u201cnot an isolated event. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}