A group called Color Us United will hold an online event on June 9 to warn workers against the racially biased policies of "woke corporations."
The goal of the event is to give employees an avenue to speak out against racially biased corporate policies and equip them to fight back.
"Many employees are aware that their company is discriminating against non-preferred races and canceling and even firing employees who speak out," Kenny Xu, president of Color Us United, said in a statement. "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 first 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 said. "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."
The online event will be held on at 7 p.m. ET, and attendees’ identities will be kept strictly anonymous.
Arizona is home to Fortune 500 companies Freeport-McMoRan, Avnet, Carvana, Republic Services, Insight Enterprises, Taylor Morrison Home and ON Semiconductor.
Color Us United said the sweeping policies are taking corporate workplaces by storm, Newsweek reported. 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." Lowe's pushed white workers to "cede power to people of color." The Salvation Army demanded workers to "repent" for the country's racism.
The Color Us United event will feature headline speaker Vivek Ramaswamy, an author, speaker and former CEO of a multibillion-dollar biotech company. Ramaswamy’s new New York Times bestseller, "Woke, Inc.," examines corporate "wokeness" from a CEO’s point of view.
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.'" It described capitalism as "racial capitalism" and said American Express staffers were "complicit" in protecting white privilege.
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% of workers surveyed reported that they attended a race-based training, only 59% of employees underwent training on sexual harassment and only 67% received necessary job training.
Zenefits, a human resources platform, said 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," their 2019 report detailed.