Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Wednesday January 5th, 2022.

I'm John Potts, the editor of commentary magazine.

Noah Rothman is out on a well-deserved vacation with me as always executive editor, A. Greenwald

Hyade.

Hi, John.

And senior writer Christine Rosen, Hykristine.

Hi, John.

Oh, there's so much to talk about.

Among other things, we maybe will get to this a little later.

Thomas Edsel has a piece in the New York Times this morning on the side, the sheer size

of the corporate commitment to radical measures following the George Floyd murder and the

events that immediately fall in its aftermath.

So listen to this, candid a website that connects people who want to change the world with

the resources they need to do it.

The idea that before Floyd's death, philanthropy is provided $3.3 billion in racial equity funding

for the nine years from 2011 to 2019.

So in other words, the average would be $3.3 divided by nine or about $300, 300 some odd

million dollars a year.

Since then, candid calculations revealed much higher totals for both 20 and 21.

50,887 grants valued at $12.7 billion and 177 pledges valued at $11.6 billion.

So since George Floyd, that is, I believe, $24.3 billion in grants given to racial equity

funding.

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