Citi CFO says George Floyd’s murder catalyzed corporate America ‘to take more proactive action’
Published Date: 6/2/2021
Source: Washington Post Live
Mark Mason said the “injustice” in George Floyd’s murder was so “blatantly obvious and hard to avoid” that it compelled corporate America to respond. “We just recently acknowledged the one-year anniversary so to speak of the horrific George Floyd murder, and we can all think back to where we were when that occurred and the impact that it had really across the world. And in many ways, it’s that impact–and it’s unfortunately not that it was a new type of event–but one that made it blatantly obvious and hard to avoid, and unfortunately it’s that impact that in some ways served as a catalyst for many corporations around the world and certainly here in the U.S. to take a more proactive action… to try and drive change in this area.”