Black Lives Matter to Mercedes-Benz

In fact, black lives matter so much to Mercedes-Benz their Formula One race cars will sport all-black paint jobs for the coming season! Symbolic, perhaps, but a welcome step in the right direction. Who knows, maybe someday we’ll even have a black F1 champion!

Formula One has now joined NASCAR in putting race into car racing. Both are big-name multi-billion-dollar brands who rely on the usual plethora of corporate brands for sponsorship and make billions from big media conglomerates who promote their product.

This is part of the astonishing wave of A-list corporate entities who have embraced BLM. All the biggest banks and all the richest foundations are keen to demonstrate their wokeness to the public.

Here’s a question; How will all this corporate support impact the struggle against systemic racism? After all, it’s impossible to have a discussion about systemic racism without examining the system that created all those billionaires and their philanthropic foundations. That’s the same system that has disembowelled the middle class and immiserated the working class. It’s the very same system that’s been making the rich richer and the poor poorer as long as we can remember.

Smells like virtue signalling, hypocrisy, and opportunism to me.