http://www.corporations.org/coors/article.html
Coors beer is owned by the Coors family; a powerful, wealthy family that funnels the money it
gets into hundreds of ultraright wing movements from neo-Nazi groups to anti-environmental
think tanks. Founded by Adolph Coors, the Coors empire is a very influential force in the U.S.
government. All of the information here has been well documented by civil rights and
environmental groups and also in a heavily footnoted book, The Coors Connection.
The Coors family has always had strong ties to neo-Nazis. Adolph Coors allowed KKK meetings
and cross-burnings on brewery property in Colorado. In 1984, Bill Coors fought against passage
of the Civil Rights Act, telling an audience of black businessmen that blacks don't succeed
because they "lack intellectual capacity." After encouraging them to go back to Africa, he said
that one of the best things slave-drivers did to American blacks "was to drag your ancestors over
here in chains" because blacks in America have greater opportunity than those in Africa.
Joe Coors is a major contributor to the Moral Majority, which has called for the imprisonment of
gay persons with AIDS. The Coors family funds a right-wing sector of Christian fundamentalism,
which seeks to replace democratic pluralism with so-called "traditional family values" that is,
an authoritarian, gender-based social order. They support groups that say homosexuals are an
abomination and AIDS is God's judgment on sinners. They have supported Reverend Sun
Myung Moon and Christian Reconstructionists, both of whom have called for the abolition of U.S.
democracy and the establishment of a theocratic state ( . . . one nation under God, or else).
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