Posted on 08/25/2021 5:58:59 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Last year, Verizon launched a "Race & Social Justice" initiative and created an extensive race reeducation program based on the core tenets of critical race theory, including "systemic racism," "white privilege," and "intersectionality."
To begin, Verizon diversity trainers instruct employees to deconstruct their intersectional identities, listing their “race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, education, profession, and sexual orientation," then determining their position on the "privilege" hierarchy.
Verizon then instructs employees on the firm’s elaborate racial-etiquette system, warning them against committing "microaggressions" and "microinequities." Members of the privileged classes must engage in the "lifelong process" of "accountability with marginalized individuals."
In a video, former DEI director Ramcess Jean-Louis claims that "weaponized White privilege" is a grave "danger" to African-Americans. Nearly crying, he says that blacks are often "not being viewed as humans" and "not being viewed as whole people with souls."
As part of the company's "antiracism" education series, Verizon VP David Hubbard interviewed Khalil Muhammad, great-grandson of former Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, who denounced America and capitalism as "systems of racism."
Muhammad argued that the Founding Fathers built a slave economy and that "this early version of global capitalism" produced the "economic incentives" that prevail to this day, with corporations "exploiting poor people in low-income communities," like modern-day slaveowners.
Next, Muhammad claimed that the police force is designed to maintain America's "two-tier society," "make sure that kids are locked up," "make sure that people stay in their communities," and "make sure that they’re criminalizing poverty"—"the bread and butter of systemic racism."
Finally, Verizon hosted activist Adrian Burrell, who openly advocated for defunding police departments and moving money to "the community." As Burrell explained: "If you want to call that 'abolishing the police,' or if you want to call that 'defunding the police,' so be it."
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If only blacks worked at Verizon, nothing would work.
Suck on that.
and yet on Jan 6th BLACK PeloXi Capitol Police
execute white women (2) point blank and were
lauded, heralded with a TV show, and excused
from the killing.
MSM and Verizon are a danger to White people
and are CAUSING the peaceful murders,
harmless rapes, and needed arson.
LOL Next thing you know someone will tell me Bill Gates considers himself a medical expert.
Capitalism is SO evil it never invented anything — like cellular networks, high speed optical networks, fast digital switching, or mobile phones. Verizon is built 100% on the fruits of capitalism. There’s a reason NONE of those inventions were conceived in any communist country.
We left Verizon a few months back for T-Mobile. The T-Mobile service is inferior to Verizon’s, but we saved half and, now knowing what I just learned about the company, I’m happy to be done with Verizon.
I hope T-Mobile does not pull the same stupid crap.
If I were in a company that pulled that crap, I’d turn in my badge the same day.
Verizon needs to stick to gadgets and the maintenance of those gadgets. That’s all. I don’t consult my phone company for social, moral or spiritual guidance. But that’s just me.
If they believed it, the entire board of directors would commit seppuku.
No wonder their service has dropped off.
I am switching my cell service at the soonest possible time.
It’s going to be hard to dump the FIOS.
Go ahead ... defund the police ...
The stupid sons of bitches don’t understand that the police are there to protect them ... from us ...
Going to switch to puretalkusa.
I’ve been a Verizon customer for 25 years. I think that I’ve reached the end with them.
Left T-mobile fro PureTalk. 30 a month and great service.
How will Verizon like it when the government takes over their company?
There are so many options available. There is no reason to use Verizon. We have been using Pure Talk USA for quite some time. There are other independent available as well.
https://www.ceoaction.com/pledge/
I know my company has gone woke. Nothing is being mandated to the extent of Verizon and others...but I don't doubt it's coming.
The ceo pledge is the equivalent of public shaming used by the chicoms and other leftists.
If blacks want to know who is responsible for their problems, all they need to do is look in the mirror.
They should explain why black crime and violence rates are so high no matter where they are on the planet. It has nothing to do with whites.
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