Jesse Jackson: SVB bank collapse not 'woke', just greed
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Mar 26, 2023
3 minutes
Did Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse because it was too “woke” in the favored taunt of the right? That’s the charge made by Republican presidential contenders Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, by the Republican House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, by the Wall Street Journal editorial page among others. The charge, however, is preposterous – revealing not for what it says about SVB’s failure but for what it says about the ugly politics now dominating the right.
SVB was “so concerned with DEI (Diversity, Equity and
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