首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People moved quickly in April to cancel plans to bestow a lifetime achie
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People moved quickly in April to cancel plans to bestow a lifetime achie
admin
2017-12-31
38
问题
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People moved quickly in April to cancel plans to bestow a lifetime achievement award on Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers and a longtime NAACP contributor, who was caught on tape scolding a female friend for posting online photos with black friends. Many people were surprised to learn the civil rights organization ever meant to praise a man with a history of discriminating against blacks. They shouldn’t have been. In 2009 the NAACP’s Los Angeles chapter honored Sterling with its President’s Award, as he agreed to pay $ 2. 8 million to settle federal civil charges that he unfairly treated blacks at L. A. apartment buildings he owns. Sterling is one of several individuals and institutions with reputations in need of repair who’ve received accolades or favorable treatment from the NAACP, at times before or after large donations. At the May 15 gala where Sterling was supposed to pick up his prize, the group’s L. A. chapter will honor executives from Wal-Mart Stores and FedEx, both major contributors embroiled in long-running controversies involving allegations of employment discrimination. The companies deny the allegations.
The group’s financial disclosures show each company gave the NAACP $ 200,000- $ 999,999 in 2011. That year the U. S. Supreme Court backed Walmart in a major employment discrimination lawsuit brought against the company by women employees. The ruling made it harder to mount class actions alleging discrimination by employers. FedEx has settled many race discrimination claims, including a $ 53 million payout to truck drivers in 2007. The NAACP also accepted more than $ 1 million from Bank of America in 2011, the same year the bank agreed to pay a record $ 335 million in a federal lawsuit alleging predatory lending to minorities. Spokesmen for Walmart and FedEx said their companies have long supported the NAACP solely because of its good work. Bank of America didn’t respond to requests for comment. Peter Dreier, director of the urban and environmental policy department at Occidental College in Los Angeles, says donating to the NAACP has become a painless way for corporations accused of racism to ensure a measure of sympathy, or at least silence, from the civil rights group, whose leaders rarely criticize the misbehavior of those who give it money. "The NAACP, with its glittering history of incredible activism, has become an empty shell," he says.
The NAACP isn’t the only organization to spruce up big companies’ reputations. "It’s part of every communication specialist’s playbook to align clients who have particular issues with nonprofits that are strong in those issues," says crisis communications strategist Sam Singer. At times it can backfire when the relationship between sinner and redeemer seems a little too convenient—or has the whiff of quid pro quo. Environmentalists have taken the World Wildlife Fund to task for accepting money from companies that use a lot of water and other natural resources, including Coca-Cola, then lending its respected panda logo to their corporate sustainability campaigns.
The NAACP hasn’t been loo picky about where its donations come from. The late Benjamin Hooks once joked that the only thing "tainted" about tobacco industry money was "there ain’t enough of it," according to tobacco industry documents from lawsuits against cigarette makers. A 2009 resolution condemning the industry for targeting blacks—who suffer an inordinate health toll from smoking died without a floor vote at the NAACP’s centennial convention, says Carol McGruder, co chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council. "When you let unethical corporations associate themselves with our organizations, it makes them look like they’re doing something for our community, and they’re not," McGruder says. "The harm they do to our people is not offset by their corporate giving. " The NAACP’s interim president and CEO, Lorraine Miller, wrote in an e-mail that money "docs not buy corporations a free pass if their actions run afoul of our mission. We do not hesitate to stand up to, speak out against or even sue our corporate contributors when we differ on an issue of civil rights. "
In 2009 the NAACP did sue a contributor. Wells Fargo, over alleged predatory lending practices targeting blacks, allegations Wells Fargo denied. But the group dropped the case in 2010, saying it would instead "work constructively" with the bank. Wells Fargo announced it would donate $ 2. 5 million a year for five years to fund an NAACP financial literacy campaign. "The more we learned about each other, the more we decided to collaborate," says Wells Fargo Senior Vice President Gigi Dixon. The federal government didn’t let the bank off so easily. In 2012, Wells Fargo agreed to pay $ 184 million to settle allegations that it steered black borrowers into subprime loans.
The phrase "to spruce up" from the sentence "The NAACP isn’t the only organization to spruce up big companies’ reputations. "(para. 4)can be replaced by "______".
选项
A、to promote and beautify
B、to criticize and repudiate
C、to spread and popularize
D、to negate and vilify
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/SCCYFFFM
本试题收录于:
NAETI高级口译笔试题库外语翻译证书(NAETI)分类
0
NAETI高级口译笔试
外语翻译证书(NAETI)
相关试题推荐
ThinkTwice:It’sAllRightAlegendaryfigureinmusichistory,Dylan,bornin1941,is【C1】________oneofthemostinfluent
InDecember,WaymoLLC,theleadingdriverlesscarcompany,broughtouttheworld’sfirstcommercialrobo-taxiservice.Butfor
TightelectricitysupplyisconstrainingChina’seconomicgrowth--asituationlikelytopersistforthreetofouryearsuntilne
A、TwoTypesofStocksB、ANewStrategyofInvestmentC、DistinctionsbetweenTradingandInvestmentD、ConflictingPerspectiveson
A、Advancesinmachinery.B、Specializationinfarming.C、Theextensivenetworkofrailroads.D、Thechangeinworldsupplyanddem
TheFederalReserveBankofNewYorkisnearcollapse,foritfailedtopaybackbailoutcash.
WhichofthefollowingcanbedesignatedthecorrespondingpostaccordingtotheBrettonWoodscommonpractice?
ChinesepeoplehaveshownevidentinterestinAfricanproducts.
A、One.B、Three.C、Four.D、Five.D
1HostilitytoGypsieshasexistedalmostfromthetimetheyfirstappearedinEuropeinthe14thcentury.Theoriginsofth
随机试题
为了区分各地自然区域的筑路特性,制定了《公路自然区划标准》(JTJ003—86),该区划是根据()制定的。
菌痢的潜伏期为
患者,女,22岁。左眼戴角膜接触镜后,红痛3天。查:左眼矫正视力0.8,结膜混合充血,角膜上有直径2mm的灰白色浸润灶,荧光素染色阳性,前房Tyndall阳性但无积脓。最有可能的诊断是
与子宫内膜癌预后关系最为密切的临床病理因素是下列哪项
患者,男,49岁。呕吐吞酸,嗳气频繁,胸胁满痛,舌边红,苔薄腻,脉弦。治法为
在适用下列各种审判程序进行审理时,人民法院不能进行调解的是:
场景某机电安装工程公司承担了某机械厂的电力安装任务。该项目地理位置在郊区,地处偏僻,虽用电申请已受理,但距电网引入的路线施工和通道尚需一段时日,而工程又急需开工,总承包单位通常是用自备电源(如柴油发电机等)先行解决用电问题。此时,总承包单位要告知供电部门
价格变动会引起需求量变动。在日常生活中,价格变动对需求量影响较小的一组商品是()。
根据我国宪法和其他有关规定,全国行政编制总额的核定权和调整权属于()
关于线性表的顺序查找、折半查找、分块查找方法的叙述中,错误的是______。A.顺序查找的算法非常简单,但效率较低B.折半查找法的平均查找长度小,查找速度快C.分块查找的平均长度介于顺序查找和折半查找之间D.分块查找只能用于顺序存储结构,且要求表中
最新回复
(
0
)