Shareholders have placed a proposal on the ballot for the annual shareholder meeting of Bank of America which deals with what appears to be a pattern of reverse discrimination in Bank of America's diversity training program. The proposal was made by The National Center for Public Policy Research and reads as follows:
"Resolved: Shareholders of the Bank of America Corporation (“the Company”) request that the Board of Directors commission a racial equity audit analyzing the Company’s impacts on civil rights and non-discrimination, and the impacts of those issues on the Company’s business. The audit may, in the Board’s discretion, be conducted by an independent and unbiased third party with input from civil rights organizations, employees, communities in which the Company operates and other stakeholders, of all viewpoints and perspectives. A report on the audit, prepared at reasonable cost and omitting confidential or proprietary information, should be publicly disclosed on the Company’s website."
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