We’re talking about GAMA.

Again, it’s a start.

Up to now, police have a pretty good chance of getting away with murder. Saying something about a specific case or police brutality in general reduces the probability that police will get away with murdering black folk. In contrast, saying nothing extends the status quo where, many times, police get away with murder.

No wrongs here.

Bullshit, you can’t deny someones fundamental rights to free speech and thought, which is exactly what you are saying.

I know they aren’t. That’s why I say they sure as heck can let me know what they’re doing to fight systemic racism. Implicit behind that is the hint that, you know, they can even do more.

Again, it’s a start.

It absolutely should be right and proper for people not to engage in an issue if they don’t want to and absolutely fair for corporate entities not to take any political stance.

So your take is that there aren’t any black people good enough for this ?

I never said you said they should be mostly white.

Like, do I care what the Dallas chapter of the Auto Bodies Association of Texas has to say about black lives?

For every random association, business and NGO that exists in America on the other hand?

And in that situation, the disjunction between what such a craven company says early on and what they do would soon become apparent.

Indeed, they don’t have to.

No, that’s not it. What a company does in their everyday operations matters. So does what they say in the face of systemic injustice. If a company were otherwise exploitative in function, a single statement wouldn’t save them.

Do black people not play games?

Personally, I think that opposing murder and brutality is a pretty basic thing to come out to say, and someone’s silence in the face of murder and brutality suggests a lot about their relative priorities, e.g. they’re unwilling to stand up against a status quo of murder and brutality.

I didn’t read the article.

There are two weaknesses to this approach:

I don’t know about most of them either way.