Does Google Believe Black Lives Matter?

By Alan Singer

A black ribbon on Google and YouTube homepages reads “We stand in support of racial equality, and all those who search for it.” Google Maps for Washington DC was updated to show Black Lives Matter. On May 31, CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted that Google supports “racial equality in solidarity with the Black community and in memory of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery & others who don’t have a voice.” However, Google’s corporate Political Action Committee donated to the campaign of Kelly Loeffler for the United States Senate from Georgia. Loeffler’s campaign rallies support from the Republican base by denouncing the Black Lives Matter movement. She accuses BLM of calling for the “removal of Jesus from churches” and “the disruption of the nuclear family structure.” AT&T, Sony, and Target also donated to Loeffler campaign committees, although Sony and Target later distanced themselves from her campaign..

According to a Center for Political Accountability report Conflicted Consequences by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, corporate America’s statements of support for Black Lives Matter, combating climate change, and defending reproductive freedom and LGBT rights often mask their “sheer hypocrisy.” Many of these companies donate to the Republican Governors Association, the Republican State Leadership Committee, and the Republican Attorneys General Association to elect candidates who are antithetical to their publicly stated positions. “For a corporation concerned about its image, spending in the spotlight sends a public message; spending in the shadows delivers on private priorities—even when those priorities are at odds with its public reputation or the wishes of its shareholders.”

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Source: Daily Kos