Bezos Decries ‘Sickening’ Answer to Black Lives Matter Post

  • Amazon chief said he was ‘happy to lose’ racist customers
  • Company put a Black Lives Matter banner on its web store
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Jeff Bezos said he received “a number of sickening but not surprising” responses after publicly supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Amazon.com Inc. chief executive officer on Sunday posted to Instagram a screenshot of a profane, racist email he said he received from someone threatening to stop shopping with the retailer because of Bezos’s support for Black Lives Matter.