A nonpartisan group called Color Us United is holding a webfest on woke June 9, to give employees an avenue to speak out against racially biased corporate policies and equip them to fight back.
The event will be at 7 p.m. ET and attendees’ identities will be kept strictly anonymous, the group said.
"Many employees are aware that their company is discriminating against non-preferred races and canceling and even firing employees who speak out," said Kenny Xu, president of Color Us United. "Yet, perhaps they think this is just a company-wide issue that can be resolved internally. They are unaware that there is a national woke agenda behind this and it is bent on internalizing wokeness across companies in America nationwide."
The group's 1st National Zoomfest is designed to "inform employees about the extent of the woke damage in companies nationwide - and possibly, how to approach your company about it, Xu added. "This is also your opportunity to interact directly with some of the key players in fighting wokeness across businesses in the nation by asking questions."
Indiana is home to a handful of Fortune 500 companies including Anthem, Eli Lilly, Cummins, Steel Dynamics and more.
Color Us United says the sweeping policies are taking corporate workplaces by storm. A publicly available LinkedIn learning series on diversity training used but not required of employees by Coca-Cola instructs people to try to "be less white," Newsweek reported. Lowe's pushed white workers to "cede power to people of color," the story said. The Salvation Army demanded workers "repent" for the country's racism.
According to the UK Daily Mail, American Express recently held a racially charged Diversity, Equity and Inclusion seminar with Nation of Islam-tied speaker Khalil Muhammad. The seminar was called "'A Conversation about Race in America: Reflecting on our History and 'the American Dream'", describes capitalism as "racial capitalism" and said AmEx decrying its staffers as 'complicit' in protecting white privilege.
Color Us United's June 9 web event will feature headline speaker Vivek Ramaswamy, an author, speaker and former CEO of a multi-billion dollar biotech company. Ramaswamy’s new New York Times bestseller, Woke, Inc., that examines corporate ‘wokeness’ from a CEO’s point of view.
New polling from Color Us United and Echelon Insights exposed the fact that more workers at large corporations have been forced to attend so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs than "sales, customer service, general company procedures, or other sessions that could improve their work performance."
Newsweek reported that while 90 percent of workers surveyed reported that they attended a race-based training, only 59 percent of employees underwent training on sexual harassment and only 67 percent received necessary job training.
Zenefits, a human resources platform, says that diversity and inclusion programs can have unintended consequences. "Research has overwhelmingly shown negative messaging in D&I training not only doesn’t help, but it may also set inclusion efforts back. Social scientists have also found, over a number of years, that people naturally tend to rebel against enforced rules," its 2019 report detailed.