{"id":2089427,"date":"2023-11-03T17:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T21:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-puts-coca-cola-on-blast-after-company-attempts-to-hide-massive-blm-donation\/"},"modified":"2023-11-03T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T21:48:11","slug":"ted-cruz-puts-coca-cola-on-blast-after-company-attempts-to-hide-massive-blm-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-puts-coca-cola-on-blast-after-company-attempts-to-hide-massive-blm-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz slams Coca-Cola for hiding huge BLM donation."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fted-cruz-puts-coca-cola-on-blast-after-company-attempts-to-hide-massive-blm-donation%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=2089427&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--><h2>Republican Sen. Ted Cruz Calls Out Coca-Cola for Concealing Support of Black Lives Matter<\/h2>\n<p>Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has sent a letter to\u200b Coca-Cola\u2019s CEO demanding answers to\u2064 his company\u2019s\u200d past \u200csupport for the Black \u2063Lives Matter \u2064movement.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, Cruz wants \u2062CEO James Quincey to explain\u200b why the company recently scrubbed its website of any \u2063mention of \u200ba $500,000\u200c Sprite donation to Black Lives Matter in 2020 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> pages\u200d affiliated with the group recently \u200bexpressed support for Hamas following the barbaric Oct.\u200b 7 terror \u2064attacks against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Four weeks\u200d ago,\u200d Hamas \u200bmilitants carried out an invasion into Israeli territory. More than\u2064 1,400 civilians died in \u2062the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Others were taken\u200b as hostages.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u200d now<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-covid-19-flip-flops-a-timeline\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s COVID-19 Flip-Flops: A Timeline\">-deleted post<\/a>\u200d online, BLM Chicago shared a graphic of a Hamas militant presumably parachuting to murder Jewish civilians. The image was\u2063 captioned \u201cI STAND WITH PALESTINE\u201d\u200c and the\u2064 group wrote, \u201cThat is all\u2062 that it is!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The official Chicago\u2062 chapter\u200c of Black Lives Matter \u200creleased a graphic of a \u200bHamas paraglider with the text: \u201cI stand with Palestine.\u201d A unit\u2063 of Hamas militants used paragliders and hang\u2064 gliders to launch their armed massacre of civilians in southern Israel. BLM, \u2064like Antifa, has\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ATN2d4sAcf\">pic.twitter.com\/ATN2d4sAcf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Ng\u00f4  (@MrAndyNgo)\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1711823222742626343?\">October 10, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ten days into Israel\u2019s declaration of war against Islamic terror \u2013 on Oct. 18 \u2013 Cruz made note on his \u201cVerdict\u201d podcast that Quincey\u2019s company had \u200bgiven the half-million\u200d dollars \u2064to \u200bthe Black Lives Matter Global Network.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-question\">If\u200b The Western Journal launched \u2064a podcast, would you subscribe?<\/div>\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\" style=\"display: none\">\n<p>\t\t<label>Yes<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<label>No<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n<p>\t\tCompleting\u200b this poll entitles you to \u200dThe Western Journal news updates free \u200cof \u200ccharge\u200b via\u2063 email. You\u200c may opt\u2064 out at anytime. You also agree \u200dto our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\" style=\"display: none\">\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-yes\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n<p>\t\t\tYes: 0% (0 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-no\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n<p>\t\t\tNo: 0% (0 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\tfunction ffp_getCookie(cname) {<br \/>\n\t\t\tvar name=cname + &#8220;=&#8221;;<br \/>\n\t\t\tvar decodedCookie=decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);<br \/>\n\t\t\tvar ca=decodedCookie.split(&#8216;;&#8217;);<br \/>\n\t\t\tfor(var i=0;\u2062 i <ca.length i var c=\"ca[i];\" while if return c.substring c.length function ffp_setcookie cvalue exdays d=\"new\" date d.settime expires=\"expires=\" d.toutcstring document.cookie=\"cname\" window.ff_poll_voted=\"false;\" voted_cookie_name=\"firefly_voted_3517064\" ff_poll_submit event event.preventdefault fireflypoll=\"jQuery(\" fireflypollcontainer=\"jQuery('#firefly-poll-container');\" pollformbox=\"jQuery('#pollFormBox');\" ffp_getcookie fireflypollcontainer.addclass to assign url here as it was defined only in firefly. firefly_ajax_url=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" posting=\"jQuery.post(\" jquery event.target the datalayer window.datalayer=\"window.dataLayer\" window.datalayer.push poll vote posting.done response response.success yes_el=\"document.getElementById(\" no_el=\"document.getElementById(\" yes_el.style.width=\"response.data.percents.yes\" yes_el.innerhtml=\"Yes: \" response.data.percents.yes response.data.votes.yes votes no_el.style.width=\"response.data.percents.no\" no_el.innerhtml=\"No: \" response.data.percents.no response.data.votes.no fireflypoll.remove pollformbox.hide document.getelementbyid fireflypollcontainer.removeclass else emailfield=\"document.querySelector(\" input emailfield.required=\"false;\" emailfield.style.display=\"none\" border: solid padding: margin-left: margin-right: margin-bottom: width: float: left background: border-radius: margin-top: padding-top: padding-bottom: padding-left: background-color: border-color: cursor: pointer lightgrey white-space: nowrap .firefly-poll-question font-weight: bold font-size: .firefly-poll-disclaimer max-width:><\/p>\n<p>A day later, Coca-Cola \u200dstealth-edited\u2063 its website to remove \u2062any mention of Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz called out the \u200ccompany on social media by posting before and after\u200b images\u2064 of\u2064 the website and called for a \u200bmea culpa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEditing your website is not\u200d enough. Americans DEMAND \u200ban apology,\u201d \u2064Cruz stated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CAUGHT RED-HANDED. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CocaCola?\">@CocaCola<\/a> deletes its support for BLM.<\/p>\n<p>One screenshot is of \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CocaCola?\">@CocaCola<\/a>\u2018s \u2063website \u200cbefore BLM supported Hamas parachuting into a concert to kill Israeli civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The other is from this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Editing your website is not enough. Americans DEMAND \u200dan apology. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WKRdxVrTu8\">pic.twitter.com\/WKRdxVrTu8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1715451845403983878?\">October 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this week,\u2063 Cruz sent \u2064Quincey a letter\u2064 that demanded \u200canswers from the company over its \u2063attempt to conceal its \u2063financial\u200d support of Black Lives Matter,\u200c which \u2062has \u200dnever\u200c made\u2063 any attempt to hide\u2062 its contempt for the\u2064 state of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2063 a\u200d letter provided \u200dto The Western Journal by Cruz\u2019s office,\u2063 the Texas\u2062 Republican demanded an explanation from Quincey \u200cabout why Coca-Cola tried to hide its affiliation to the neo-Marxist \u2064group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoca-Cola\u2019s attempt at erasing\u200c the evidence of its \u200cpublicized donation is a\u2062 tacit admission \u200cthat criticisms of the Black Lives Matter movement\u2014and of Sprite\u2019s support for it\u2014have merit,\u201d Cruz \u2063wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The senator added:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoca-Cola \u200cevidently wants the public to forget how it propped up a far-left group that \u2062has refused to condemn the Hamas\u200c terrorist organization and\u2064 whose representatives have openly \u2062advocated since at least 2015, \u2064well\u200c before Sprite\u2019s June 2020 donation, \u2018to end\u200c the \u2064imperialist project called Israel.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz informed Quincey \u2064he wants answers to a number of questions \u2063so that Congress can better understand his \u200bcompany\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2064Standing Rules of the \u200cSenate provide the Committee on Commerce, Science, \u200dand Transportation the authority to \u2064\u2018review and study, \u200bon\u2064 a\u2063 continuing basis\u2019 matters of interstate commerce and consumer affairs,\u201d he told\u200d the company\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz gave Quincey until Nov. 15 to provide written responses to the following questions:<\/p>\n<p><em>1. Why did Coca-Cola conceal its support of the Black Lives \u2063Matter Global Network?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2. Why did Coca-Cola not distance \u200bitself from Black \u200cLives \u200cMatter until after my \u200cpublic comments?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>3. Detail \u200dany previous or \u200ccurrent\u200c financial commitments by Coca-Cola\u200b or its subsidiaries \u200dto\u2062 the Black Lives Matter Global Network. State whether they \u200dhave been fulfilled\u200c and\u2064 whether\u200c Coca-Cola intends to financially support the Black Lives Matter Global Network in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>4. Provide copies of any documents or \u200ccommunications referring or relating to any statement on \u2063Coca-Cola\u2019s website \u2064about \u200cSprite\u2019s contribution to the Black \u200dLives Matter Global \u200cNetwork, including \u200cthe deletion or alteration\u2062 thereof,\u2063 between October 18, \u20632023, and the date\u200d of\u2063 your response.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>5. Provide copies of any electronic logs\u200d or similar documents documenting the deletion of references to Sprite\u2019s contribution to the Black \u2064Lives Matter Global Network from Coca-Cola\u2019s \u2064website.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 Western Journal reached out to Coca-Cola for comment \u200babout the \u2064letter and also \u200bthe sudden omission of its\u2063 support for Black Lives Matter online.<\/p>\n<p>The company did not respond to an inquiry on either matter in time for publication.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ted-cruz-puts-coca-cola-blast-company-attempts-hide-massive-blm-donation\/\">Ted\u200b Cruz \u2062Puts\u200c Coca-Cola on\u200c Blast After Company Attempts to Hide Massive BLM Donation<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What specific information \u200ddid Ted Cruz criticize Coca-Cola \u2063for concealing about its support of the Black Lives \u2062Matter movement?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas \u2063has \u2062recently criticized Coca-Cola for concealing its support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. In a letter\u200b addressed to Coca-Cola&#8217;s CEO, \u200dJames Quincey, Cruz demands an explanation as to why \u2063the company \u2062removed any \u200bmention of a $500,000 Sprite donation to BLM in 2020 from its website.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz&#8217;s concern stems from social media\u200c pages affiliated with BLM expressing support for Hamas, a Palestinian militant group, \u200bfollowing terror attacks \u200bagainst Israel on October\u200c 7, 2023. These attacks led to the death of over 1,400 \u2062civilians, with others being taken as hostages.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d controversy escalated when BLM Chicago shared a graphic on their now-deleted post, depicting a\u200d Hamas militant parachuting to murder Jewish civilians. The \u200bcaption, &#8220;I STAND WITH PALESTINE,&#8221; along with the statement &#8220;That is all that \u2064it is!&#8221; sparked outrage and raised\u2064 questions about BLM&#8217;s \u2064alignment with Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2062 was ten days later, on October 18, that Cruz highlighted Coca-Cola&#8217;s donation to BLM on \u200bhis &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast, emphasizing the connection between the company&#8217;s support and the controversy surrounding BLM&#8217;s affiliation \u200dwith Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz&#8217;s letter to Quincey \u2063underscores the need for accountability and \u200dclarification from \u2062Coca-Cola regarding their support for BLM. By concealing their past\u200c support,\u2064 particularly\u2063 in light of the recent controversy, Cruz believes the company is avoiding responsibility for its \u2063associations.<\/p>\n<p>Coca-Cola has yet \u200bto respond publicly \u200cto Cruz&#8217;s letter, and it remains to be \u200bseen whether they will provide the explanation he seeks. However, this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-tells-same-story-twice-nearly-word-for-word-and-minutes-apart-at-campaign-fundraiser-report\/\" title=\"Biden repeats story verbatim twice, minutes apart at campaign fundraiser: Report.\">incident raises important questions<\/a> about corporate \u2062support for social\u2064 movements and the responsibility companies have to ensure their donations align with their values and do not support organizations \u2064involved in controversial activities.<\/p>\n<p>As discussions around racial justice and activism\u200b continue to evolve,\u200d the actions\u2063 and affiliations of corporations like Coca-Cola will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/european-union-targets-six-big-tech-firms-in-latest-crackdown-on-online-content\/\" title=\"EU targets 6 tech giants in new crackdown on online content.\">face increased\u200d scrutiny<\/a>. The public expects transparency\u2063 and accountability, particularly when \u2064it comes to supporting causes \u200dthat aim to promote\u2062 equality and eradicate racism.<\/p>\n<p>This controversy serves \u2062as a reminder that \u200dcorporations must be mindful of \u2064the associations they make and ensure that their support of\u2062 social movements aligns with their values\u2064 and does not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-puts-coca-cola-on-blast-after-company-attempts-to-hide-massive-blm-donation\/\" title=\"Ted Cruz slams Coca-Cola for hiding huge BLM donation.\">inadvertently endorse organizations involved<\/a> in activities that go against these\u200b values. Only through accountability and transparency can companies maintain the \u200btrust and support of their customers and the broader public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas seeks answers from Coca-Cola&#8217;s CEO regarding the company&#8217;s previous endorsement of the Black Lives Matter movement. 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