{"id":1987749,"date":"2023-08-01T13:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-holder-was-paid-to-tell-starbucks-how-to-be-more-diverse-and-now-its-being-sued\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:17:12","slug":"eric-holder-was-paid-to-tell-starbucks-how-to-be-more-diverse-and-now-its-being-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-holder-was-paid-to-tell-starbucks-how-to-be-more-diverse-and-now-its-being-sued\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder was hired by Starbucks for diversity advice, now faces lawsuit."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feric-holder-was-paid-to-tell-starbucks-how-to-be-more-diverse-and-now-its-being-sued%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1987749&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>Race Hustling: Good Money\u2064 and \u2063Legal Risks<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Race hustling\u2064 can be a lucrative \u2063business, but avoiding lawsuits is crucial. \u2063Just ask former Attorney General Eric Holder, who is currently in \u2063the\u200c clear. However, Starbucks, following Holder&#8217;s recommendations from a &#8220;racial\u200c equity\u200d audit,&#8221; is\u2062 now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/female-athletes-denounce-biden-executive-order-on-gender-identity\/\" title=\"Female athletes denounce Biden executive order on gender identity\">facing legal action<\/a> \u2063for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-justice-department-scraps-investigation-into-yales-discriminatory-admissions-process\/\" title=\"Biden Justice Department Scraps Investigation Into Yale\u2019s Discriminatory Admissions Process\">alleged racial discrimination<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to a report by The Washington Free Beacon,\u200b Starbucks hired Covington &#038; Burling, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-judicial-nominees-highlight-conflict-between-progressives-civil-rights-groups\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Judicial Nominees Highlight Conflict Between Progressives, Civil Rights Groups\">prestigious law firm<\/a> where Holder\u2063 serves \u2064as senior counsel,\u2064 to\u2062 conduct &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/starbucks-hired-eric-holder-to-conduct-a-civil-rights-audit-the-policies-he-blessed-got-the-coffee-maker-sued\/\" title=\"Starbucks hired Eric Holder for a 'Civil Rights Audit,' but his approved policies led to lawsuits against the coffee maker.\">civil rights assessments<\/a>.&#8221; This move came\u2064 after\u200b a highly\u2062 publicized incident in 2018, \u2064where two black\u2064 men were arrested \u200cat a \u2063Philadelphia store for refusing to leave\u2062 after being denied restroom access. Seeking improvement, Starbucks sought \u200cHolder&#8217;s expertise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Holder\u200c and his team published \u2064a report that recommended various strategies, including &#8220;tying executive \u200cpay to diversity targets,\u2063 setting spending goals for &#8216;diverse suppliers,&#8217; and launching a \u2063mentorship \u2063program for &#8216;BIPOC&#8217; employees,&#8221; as reported by The Free \u2063Beacon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a\u2063 Starbucks shareholder, is suing \u2064the company for\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-holder-was-paid-to-tell-starbucks-how-to-be-more-diverse-and-now-its-being-sued\/\" title=\"Eric Holder was hired by Starbucks for diversity advice, now faces lawsuit.\">alleged\u2062 civil rights violations<\/a> and racial discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starbucks \u200cis not the only company implementing\u200b such &#8220;diversity, equity, \u200cand inclusion&#8221; policies. The\u2064 Free Beacon \u2063reveals that\u200d other major companies have\u2064 also\u2062 established \u2062programs that exclude white individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Attorney \u2064Adam Mortara finds\u200c Holder&#8217;s recommendations perplexing and questions the \u2063legal justification behind\u200c them. \u2062&#8221;I&#8217;m \u2063stunned that a law firm would have counseled any company\u2064 to do this,&#8221; Mortara expressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interestingly, Holder&#8217;s report did not address the legality of his suggested \u2062policies, as \u200dnoted \u200dby The \u2063Beacon. It is worth mentioning that Holder has charged over $2,000 for similar work in other instances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and\u2062 do\u2062 not necessarily represent those \u2064of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race hustling can be lucrative, as long as you avoid lawsuits. Former Attorney General Eric Holder is fortunate to be lawsuit-free, but Starbucks is now facing legal consequences for implementing his recommended &#8220;diversity&#8221; policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1987750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}