Racist Suspect: Robert H. Benmosche (AIG)
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Offending Conduct: Robert Benmosche is the CEO of American International Group Inc (AIG). He willfully and deliberately demonstrated a willingness to participate in speech to maintain and/or refine the practice of White Supremacy (Racism) by using words to demean Black people and trivialize our oppression.
He compared public concern over executive pay bonuses to the lynching of Blacks during Jim Crow and Slavery. He said "The uproar over bonuses was intended to stir public anger, to get everybody out there with their pitch forks and their hangman nooses, and all that–sort of like what we did in the Deep South [decades ago]. And I think it was just as bad and just as wrong." [MORE] and [MORE]
As such he supports the use of language and images to promote the maintenance, expansion, and/or refinement of the System of White Supremacy (Racism) in the areas of Economics.
