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Corporate voices boomed across the nation in support of Black Lives Matter
and various social justice initiatives following the death of George Floyd
in 2020. Nearly two years later, what was left in the wake of 2020 was a drastic spike Black murders with experts pinning blame on the BLM and
defund the police movements.
The summer of 2020 was marked by protests and riots from coast to coast in support of the BLM and defund the police movements following the death of George Floyd. Companies stretching from behemoth e-commerce and tech
company Amazon to beauty giant Ulta posted messages reiterating "Black
lives matter," and companies around the country pledged millions of
dollars to various social justice organizations that pushed to reimagine policing and reallocate funds from police departments.
FBI data reported by Fox News Digital last week shows murders spiked disproportionally among Black Americans in 2020 by 32% compared to the
year prior. Murders across the board spiked by nearly 30% that year,
marking the largest single-year increase in killings since the agency
began tracking the crimes.
MASSIVE INCREASE IN BLACK AMERICANS MURDERED WAS RESULT OF DEFUND POLICE MOVEMENT: EXPERTS
At least 7,484 Black Americans were murdered in 2019, according to FBI
data Fox News Digital reported last week. That number shot up to at least
9,941 murders in 2020, meaning there was an increase of 2,457 Black
Americans murdered over the previous year.
For White Americans, FBI data show there were 7,043 White people murdered
in 2020, meaning 2,898 more Black people were killed compared to Whites.
An average of 6,927 Black Americans were murdered each year between 2010
and 2019, meaning Black murders shot up by 43% in 2020 compared to the
previous 10-year average.
AMAZON SUSPENDS BLACK LIVES MATTER FROM CHARITY PROGRAM AS CONTROVERSY
SWIRLS AROUND GROUP'S FINANCES
To experts such as the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald, BLM and
the defund movements that swept the nation directly contributed to the
spike. The spike "began months after lockdowns beginning only after
riots," Mac Donald told Fox News Digital, noting the "spike was not at all related to COVID."
Fox News Digital reached out to a handful of corporations and companies
that pledged support for Black Lives Matter and various organizations supporting tenets of the defund movement, such as the Equal Justice
Initiative and the National Urban League in the days and months following
the death of Floyd.
The Equal Justice Initiative advocates for the reallocations of "funds
from traditional policing to services that promote public safety." While
the National Urban League outlines on its website that it has "21 Pillars"
on "comprehensive and realistic reform and accountability," including "collaborate with communities to re-envision public safety" and "change divisive policing policies."
Representatives for Nike, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Ben & Jerry’s,
Nordstrom, Target and Ulta did not return Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
A Ben and Jerry's ice cream store on Sept. 23, 2021, in Miami, Florida.
<span class="copyright">Joe Raedle/Getty Images</span>
A Ben and Jerry's ice cream store on Sept. 23, 2021, in Miami, Florida.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Companies such as Nordstrom, Ben & Jerry’s and Amazon openly aligned
themselves with Black Lives Matter.
Nordstrom said in January of 2021 that it was "supporting the important
work of nonprofit organizations," including the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. Amazon announced in 2020 that it was donating $10
million "to organizations that are working to bring about social justice
and improve the lives of Black and African Americans," including BLM.
While Ben & Jerry’s noted in 2020 that it supported the BLM movement years before Floyd’s death and declared, "Today, we want to be even more clear
about the urgent need to take concrete steps to dismantle white supremacy
in all its forms."
'WOKE' RETAILERS WHO ASKED CONGRESS FOR HELP AMID SMASH-AND-GRABS
SUPPORTED LEFT-WING POLICE REFORMS
Nike - along with Converse, Jordan Brand and Michael Jordan - announced in
2020 it would donate a combined $140 over 10 years to organizations such
as the National Urban League and Equal Justice Initiative. Apple launched
a $100 million program called the Racial Equity and Justice Initiative in
June of 2020, which pledged support to various groups including working
with EJI. Facebook pledged support to groups fighting racial inequality
just days after Floyd’s death, including EJI, as did Ulta Beauty. In 2020, Target announced a $10 million commitment to "advancing social justice," including donations to the National Urban League.
The Equal Justice Initiative and National Urban League did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment when confronted with the
FBI data on Black murders and experts arguing the defund movement
contributed to the spike.
Black Lives Matter’s press team has not responded to repeated requests for comment on the data and experts’ arguments. The national organization,
which was co-founded by a self-described "trained Marxist," has come under intense scrutiny in recent months as questions were raised about
leadership’s financial dealings. Amazon announced in February of this year
that it suspended the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation from
its charity platform for failing to disclose where tens of millions of
dollars were allocated.
Just last week, former diversity leader under the Donald Trump
administration Bruce LeVell wrote an op-ed slamming corporations for their "huge miscalculation" in backing the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
"Unfortunately, BLMGNF has intimidated the leaders of some of America’s
largest corporations into paying fealty to its harmful and deceptive narrative," LeVell wrote in the Tennessee Star on Thursday. "Rather than challenging the Marxist provocateurs at BLMGNF, corporate leaders have prostrated themselves and even donated shareholder resources to a cause
that is intrinsically opposed to free markets, individual liberties, law
and order, and everything else that allows American businesses to thrive."
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