Companies that donated to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Global Network Foundation - including Amazon, Intel and Microsoft - have yet to weigh in on the movement’s call to boycott white companies this Christmas, despite the group profiting from corporate donations.
The organization on Instagram urged its supporters to participate in ‘Black Xmas’ by buying ‘exclusively from Black-owned businesses’ through January 1.
‘Move your money out of white-corporate banks that finance our oppression and open accounts with Black-owned banks,’ it said.
But the group has benefited from huge corporate donations itself.
In June 2020, Amazon said it donated $10 million to social justice causes including the ACLU Foundation, BLM, Brennan Center for Justice, the Equal Justice Initiative and more.
Microsoft around the same time donated $250,000 to BLM as part of a $1.5 million effort to address racial inequity.
Also during spring 2020, then-Intel chief executive Bob Swan said the company would pledge $1 million toward addressing social justice and racism.
Black Lives on Matter is calling on its followers to participate in 'Black Xmas' by shopping exclusively at black-owned stores through January 1
The money was spread throughout a number of non-profits and Swan encouraged employees to donate to the Black Lives Matter Foundation and others that were eligible for the company’s donation-matching program.
Amazon and Microsoft did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment; Intel refused comment.
Other companies that have donated to racial equality efforts include Home Depot, Apple, Facebook and more.
On November 24, BLM said on its website that shopping at white-owned stores hurts black people and asked its followers to ‘harness our economic power to disrupt white-supremacist-capitalism and build Black community.’
They put out this year’s call as part of a tradition that began in 2014, despite profiting massively from white-owned and operated corporations.
The movement is asking its followers to participate in Black Xmas by donating to Black-led
