Jesse Jackson, Dave Bing, and others meet at the Detroit Yacht Club to discuss their disadvantaged status!
Today's, September 29th, Detroit Free Press has an incredible story about minority business enterprise. It seems that yesterday the Reverend Jesse Jackson representing Rainbow Push, his organization that is supposed to help all disadvantaged minorities to get a piece of the business pie, met at the Detroit Yacht Club with representatives of the OEM automotive industry and its tier one suppliers to challenge those companies to "spend more" with minority business enterprises. According to the article GM, Ford, and Chrysler already buy 13% of their total "spend" from certified minority business enterprises. What was left out of the article was that since Jackson and his "supporters" have already bled GM and Ford nearly to death mainly to benefit a few wealthy minorities and their white "mentors" it has become time to step up the pressure on Toyota.
I can imagine the confusion in the minds of the representatives at that meeting of the foreign "transplants," Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, BMW, and Suzuki. All of those companies are focused on profits. Not a single one of them employs a UAW member! All pay high salaries to their American workers and give generous benefits. All of them also hold their suppliers to high standards of quality, on-time delivery, and competitive pricing.
I guarantee that all of the transplant companies do and will continue to buy from any supplier that meets their standards. By doing so they insure that they will continue to make a profit and employ tens of thousands of American workers.
In the meantime the companies that have caved into the Rainbow Push are broken and stumbling towards the end. They are going bankrupt, laying off tens of thousands of workers, and pulling back on pensions and health insurance pushing thousands of families into destitution.
Jesse Jackson dined at the Detroit Yacht Club last night, slept in a luxury hotel suite, and chatted with his friends and supporters who live in mansions in Bloomfield Hills. Who is a better friend to the disadvantaged, Toyota's purchasing department that gives business to a variety of companies that employ tens of thousands of minorities in every level of labor and management or Jesse Jackson, most of whose friends live in luxury and employ very few, if any, minority managers in their "minority companies."
I can imagine the confusion in the minds of the representatives at that meeting of the foreign "transplants," Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, BMW, and Suzuki. All of those companies are focused on profits. Not a single one of them employs a UAW member! All pay high salaries to their American workers and give generous benefits. All of them also hold their suppliers to high standards of quality, on-time delivery, and competitive pricing.
I guarantee that all of the transplant companies do and will continue to buy from any supplier that meets their standards. By doing so they insure that they will continue to make a profit and employ tens of thousands of American workers.
In the meantime the companies that have caved into the Rainbow Push are broken and stumbling towards the end. They are going bankrupt, laying off tens of thousands of workers, and pulling back on pensions and health insurance pushing thousands of families into destitution.
Jesse Jackson dined at the Detroit Yacht Club last night, slept in a luxury hotel suite, and chatted with his friends and supporters who live in mansions in Bloomfield Hills. Who is a better friend to the disadvantaged, Toyota's purchasing department that gives business to a variety of companies that employ tens of thousands of minorities in every level of labor and management or Jesse Jackson, most of whose friends live in luxury and employ very few, if any, minority managers in their "minority companies."
posted by Jack Lifton at 11:30 AM
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