The president is the best thing that ever happened to the corporate society, a distraction on the lines of the old-time Jim Crow

Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, took the knee last week before cameras at a branch of his bank. Larry Fink, CEO of beings investment fund BlackRock, decried ethnic bias. Starbucks vowed to “stand in solidarity with our black spouses, customers and communities”. Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO David Solomon said he sorrowed “for the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and countless other victims of racism.”

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