Coca-Cola was founded by a RACIST Confederate soldier. Since he was in the South, he obviously was a racist and owned hundreds of slaves, right?

Time to boycott and disrupt a RACIST organization founded by an obvious racist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stith...ca%2DCola.

RC is better anyway

Can you imagine a world with just Pepsi?

My grandfather refused to drink Coca-Cola for a long time. The Coke distributor didn’t hire black people, while the Pepsi one did.

(06-15-2020 09:39 AM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  My grandfather refused to drink Coca-Cola for a long time. The Coke distributor didn’t hire black people, while the Pepsi one did.

I don’t know exactly when or exactly where that happened, but I do know that beginning in 1932, the top executive at Coca Cola was a man named George Woodruff who was probably the most pro-black national businessman in the country at the time. And the people who replaced him when he retired about 1960 were even more so.

(06-15-2020 11:21 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(06-15-2020 09:39 AM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  My grandfather refused to drink Coca-Cola for a long time. The Coke distributor didn’t hire black people, while the Pepsi one did.

I don’t know exactly when or exactly where that happened, but I do know that beginning in 1932, the top executive at Coca Cola was a man named George Woodruff who was probably the most pro-black national businessman in the country at the time. And the people who replaced him when he retired about 1960 were even more so.

yea, but back then pretty tough to police your distributors.

Warren Buffett is said to drink 5 per day and Coke is one of Berkshire Hathaway's core holdings. And I believe Bill Gates has a lot of his money that isn't tied up in Microsoft invested in Berkshire Hathaway.

Conservatives don't have the clout to make this a thing though, so nothing is going to happen. Rules for thee..

(06-15-2020 11:58 AM)fsquid Wrote:  

(06-15-2020 11:21 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(06-15-2020 09:39 AM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  My grandfather refused to drink Coca-Cola for a long time. The Coke distributor didn’t hire black people, while the Pepsi one did.

I don’t know exactly when or exactly where that happened, but I do know that beginning in 1932, the top executive at Coca Cola was a man named George Woodruff who was probably the most pro-black national businessman in the country at the time. And the people who replaced him when he retired about 1960 were even more so.

yea, but back then pretty tough to police your distributors.

Fair point, although Woodruff was the sort of man who would’ve looked for another if he had known about it.

(06-15-2020 09:34 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  Can you imagine a world with just Pepsi?

There is no need for this type of toxic discussion.

(06-15-2020 01:17 PM)cosine4 Wrote:  

(06-15-2020 09:34 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  Can you imagine a world with just Pepsi?

There is no need for this type of toxic discussion.

I'd have to drink water. Haven't had that nasty stuff in over 40 years.

(06-15-2020 01:22 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-15-2020 01:17 PM)cosine4 Wrote:  

(06-15-2020 09:34 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  Can you imagine a world with just Pepsi?

There is no need for this type of toxic discussion.

I'd have to drink water. Haven't had that nasty stuff in over 40 years.

Yeah, I grew up on Pepsi but can't do it anymore. Luckily I kicked my soda habit but if I ever do have one it is Coke.