Daniel Greenfield July 09, 2020
@ Sultan Knish Blog
Coca-Cola would like you to know that it cares about oppression and believes America is evil.
In a rambling statement by CEO James Quincey, titled, "Where We Stand on
Social Justice", the head of the obesity conglomerate declared that he
is, "outraged, sad, frustrated, angry."
It’s hard that out there for a guy in a racist country who is only making an $18 million salary.
The Coke CEO then pledged to give money to the social justice usual
suspects and the company joined a boycott of Facebook to pressure it
into censoring Trump and conservatives.
"Companies like ours must speak up as allies to the Black Lives Matter
movement," Quincey ranted. "I’ve been reflecting on our duty to Black
people in America. Simply put, America hasn’t made enough progress,
corporate America hasn’t made enough progress and nor has The Coca-Cola
Company."
While Coca-Cola pounds the Black Lives Matter pulpit, it’s got a present-day slavery problem.
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China had released a report in
March on China's forced labor practices. The CECC is a bipartisan group
that includes a wide range of national politicians from Senator Tom
Cotton and Senator Marco Rubio to Senator Dianne Feinstein and Rep.
Marcy Kaptur.
That report led to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which, among
others, named Coca Cola and Nike. Why did the media bury the story?
Because it had bad things to say about its advertisers.
The CECC report and the accompanying legislation noted that Coca-Cola,
Adidas, Calvin Klein, the Campbell Soup Company, Costco, Esprit,
H&M, Tommy Hilfiger, Patagonia, and Nike were among those companies
suspected of complicity in China's forced labor camps.
Coke and some of the other companies involved denied everything, but a
Wall Street Journal article noted that COFCO Tunhe supplies sugar to
Coca-Cola and tomatoes to Heinz and Campbell. The Chinese state-owned
company is the country’s largest food processor, the world’s second
largest tomato processor, and one of the largest sugar processors in the
world, with vast networks of plantations.
The corporations that decry racism in America allegedly benefit from the new Communist plantations.
“All the international brands trust us and buy our tomato purée: Heinz,
Kraft, Unilever, Nestlé," Cofco Tunhe Vice-President Yu Tianchi had once
boasted.
Unilever, the British-Dutch conglomerate whose brands include Dove and
Breyers, has been a loud voice in the social justice movement, and has
joined the boycott to force Facebook to censor conservatives.
“We have a responsibility for racial justice,” Unilever declared.
But does that racial justice include the slaves of China’s Communist regime?
Kraft-Heinz’s CEO Miguel Patricio had issued a hysterical rant about “systemic racism against African-Americans”.
"We at Kraft Heinz say BLACK LIVES MATTER," Patrico declared in a badly
spelled and punctuated rant. "This week, we are talking with employees
about one of our new Values, We demand diversity."
But how exactly will Heinz-Kraft's promise to expand "supplier diversity
guidelines" play out in the tomato fields of Xinyang and its slave
labor forces? Heinz-Kraft has been steadily cutting American jobs and
outsourcing them abroad to reward the greed of big investors like
Democrat donor Warren Buffett.
Slave labor is the cheapest labor of them all.
As China dominates tomato processing, all the social justice promises
are obvious lies. The reality is toiling in the fields, men, women, and
children, to do the hard work while execs preach social justice.
Coca-Cola meanwhile insisted that the COFCO facility the company used had passed an “internal audit”.
But what is COFCO?
Xinyang's agriculture is dominated by the Xinjiang Production and
Construction Corps (XPCC). The XPCC is a paramilitary Communist
organization set up under Mao to colonize and control the region using
soldiers and convict labor. Its commercial arm is the China Xinjian
Group which turns the colonial production of the XPCC commissars into
commercial products. COFCO is an affiliate of the XPCC and dominates the
tomato and sugar export trade for western companies.
Ning Gaoning, the COCFO boss, touted production as a vital part of "the ‘New Socialistic Countryside.’
In China’s new economic boom, the XPCC is less able to depend on Han
soldiers or volunteers, and has been accused of shifting to forced labor
in Xinyang and using Xinyang Aid to move slave laborers around.
Even while Coke’s boss blathers about racism in America, he’s getting
his sugar processed by a Communist paramilitary colonization enterprise
that has been accused of using slave labor.
“The vast majority of them ran back within a few days.” COFCO executives were quoted as complaining about their workforce.
Xinyang Aid has been trying to avoid the problem by moving slave laborers so far away that there’s nowhere for them to run.
A description of tomato harvests in Xinyang by another XPCC company
tells a familiar story. “the harvest is still done by hand, with workers
earning one euro cent per kilo of harvested tomatoes. Children often go
with their parents and work alongside them in the fields.”
A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute cast an even wider
net, tying Apple, BMW Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch, GM, LL
Bean, North Face, Gap, Volkswagen, and Nike, among others, to supply
chains based around workers laboring "under conditions that strongly
suggest forced labour."
A factory making shoes for Nike was "equipped with watchtowers, barbed-wire fences and police
guard boxes." Nike Shox were discovered being made in another factory by
slave laborers shipped far from home to produce shoes for the
sportswear giant. Too far for them to run away.
“We can walk around, but we can’t go back,” one worker said.
The same company that holds up Colin Kaepernick, a millionaire
anti-American activist, as an icon of social justice, also profits from
an alleged slave labor facility that moved to be closer to “the region’s
cotton fields”. The millionaire victims of imaginary racism that Nike
wants us to care about are on their billboards while modern day slaves
still toil in the cotton fields because their lives don’t matter.
The dirty secret of the big Corporate Left brands is that behind the
familiar names and commercials, are huge conglomerates and financial
investors who cut costs by outsourcing their production to China. The
Americans design and market, but the real work is done by huge Communist
enterprises, either owned directly by the state or by oligarchs tied to
the Communist leadership, whose names you don’t know.
All this leaves the executives with plenty of time to come up with new
social justice initiatives and call the country and the American people
whose wealth, future, and hopes they’ve stolen, racists.
Throwing millions at lefty organizations, announcing more diversity
initiatives, firing qualified people and replacing them with activists,
is cheap and doesn’t touch the real source of the wealth flowing from
plantations in the People’s Republic of China. And it’s those
plantations that are the new slavery.
The Black Lives Matter rhetoric doesn’t affect the root injustice at
conglomerates wiping out American jobs, including black jobs, and
replacing them with minorities laboring in the fields in Communist
China.
Foreign plantations, slave labor forces doing the dirty work in the
cotton fields, aren’t in America, but they are the source of the wealth
of a new class of politically correct plutocrats who subsidize the
Democrat Party and the Left, preaching about social justice from their
mansions, while their slaves are kept out of sight thousands of miles
away by the commissars of the Communist slave trade.
The Corporate Left has made a dirty deal with Communist China to divide and conquer America.
The repetition of the black nationalist slogan, Black Lives Matter, is
convenient because it deliberately excludes the non-black slave labor on
whose backs the Corporate Left has built its endless billions.
While Americans are endlessly lectured about a brief period of African
slavery, China had imported African slaves for some six centuries. Much
like the Middle Eastern trade in African slaves, this fact is generally
buried in order to perpetuate the leftist myth that African slavery in
America was unique.
Or, as Senator Tim Kaine falsely claimed, “The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody. We created it.”
Of course, we didn’t.
Slavery existed throughout history. The 1619 Project is a lie, but
China, unlike America, was built on slave labor. And China is expanding
its colonial presence into Africa, building factories, and abusing the
native population in a search of cheap labor. The products of that new
black slavery in Africa, like the trade in slaves in Asia, will be sold
by all the familiar brands now declaring that Black Lives Matter.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.
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