Cornel West event eyes Wells Fargo, Aetna & Brooks Brothers boycott

By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com Published: 11:33 EDT, 14 May 2024 | Updated: 12:17 EDT, 14 May 2024 Presidential candidate Cornel West will join reparations activists this weekend at the launch of a boycott of Wells Fargo, Brookes Brothers, Aetna and other firms with historic ties to slavery. West, a 70-year-old long-shot progressive independent candidate in the 2024 White House race, is set to add his voice to the National Reparations Convention at a church in Washington DC. He will speak on Monday about his manifesto and reparations, which he says is ‘unpaid debt’ to black people in the US that he wants to make federal government policy within two years of taking the Oval Office. He calls it a ‘step towards healing the wounds of a painful history.’ Polls show that about 2 percent of voters nationwide back West, who did not answer DailyMail.com’s request for comment. Still, he and other third party candidates, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr, could yet swing the outcome by denying votes to front-runners President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump. Poll Do you support a federal reparation policy directed at the descendants of slaves? Yes 374 votes No...