January 2, 2021
Please DO NOT vote in support of NADAQ's request pertaining to forcing diversity on company boards listed with NASDAQ.
Forcing companies to get involved with political issues is not fair to shareholders.
Quite simply, we live in a free-market economy - where businesses and associated officers are legally allowed to run their companies as they see fit. Forcing a diversity quota on boards is not only un-American in principle but illegal.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes the NASDAQ request illegal - a white man or woman has just as much of an equal right to fill any or every board seat.
Please allow corporations to decide what is in their shareholder's best interest and SELECT SUITABLE BOARD MEMBERS BASED ON MERIT, not their race. It's as simple as that.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Concerned American Executives