Posted on 02/22/2021 10:10:02 AM PST by blam
Is Coca Cola sponsoring racism? That's the claim. You be the judge.
‘Try To Be Less White’
When I first saw this story I was highly skeptical.
However, the training course is available online and Coca Cola is doing its best to try to back down from the course.
Here's the course Confronting Racism, with Robin DiAngelo
In this course, Robin DiAngelo, the best-selling author of White Fragility, gives you the vocabulary and practices you need to start confronting racism and unconscious bias at the individual level and throughout your organization. There’s no magic recipe for building an inclusive workplace. It’s a process that needs to involve people of color, and that needs to go on for as long as your company’s in business.
The free into above does not show the ending slide "Try to be less white" but what you can see is galling enough.
The video Tweet by @DrKarlynB shows more of the damning slides.
Coca-Cola Whitewash
Backlash
Late Sunday evening NewsWeek reported Coca-Cola, Facing Backlash, Says 'Be Less White' Learning Plan Was About Workplace Inclusion
Coca-Cola, facing mounting backlash from conservatives online, has responded to allegations of anti-white rhetoric after an internal whistleblower leaked screenshots of diversity training materials that encourages staff to "try to be less white."
A Coca-Cola spokesperson confirmed that the course is "part of a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace," but also noted that "the video circulating on social media is from a publicly available LinkedIn Learning series and is not a focus of our company's curriculum."
Coca-Cola Logo
The Coca-Cola logo is on training snapshots in the video Tweet.
If Coca-Cola did not authorize and pay for the the training, the slides would not have their logo, Karlyn would be in deep legal trouble, and Twitter would have removed the Tweet.
Who in the hell is reviewing their training materials?
Candance Owens
Best selling author Candance Owens had this to say.
Owens is Founder of the @BLEXIT organization. "Black people don’t have to be Democrats— still."
Coke Is Racist
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Salon, and Washington Post have no coverage of this.
All the top sites plus Coca-Cola all want to sweep this under the rug.
Why Trump Nearly Won
Please recall Politically Correct Educators Vote to Rename 44 SF Schools Including Washington and Lincoln
Also note The Dumbing Down of America is Poised to Accelerate.
If you are looking for a reason why millions of people voted for Trump, look no further.
I intended to do a post on why Trump nearly won but this post will suffice.
Every bit of this is a complete outrage. It is why Trump won in 2016. Had he toned things down a bit in 2020 he probably would have been reelected.
Okay, is there a White version of Coca Cola white people can drink? I guess I am done with Coca Cola as my skin tones do not match up to the color of the drink. Can I still have a black dog if I am white?
One thing people seem to be missing is this is a class hosted by LinkedIn. Coke chose to pay for the class for its employees, but it’s a LinkedIn class. Yet they face no backlash that I’ve seen.
Any GOP candidates paying attention? You’ve just been handed an issue on a silver platter.
Go after Coca Cola under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
The Supremes, Temptations, Four Tops, Spinners, Junior Walker and the Allstars, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. This is pretty much 3/4 of my “Dance Favorites.”
I worked for a company with 70,000 employees
I remember meeting with the CEO, who said (and he was paraphrasing someone else): “We have 70,000 employees - right now, there’s someone, somewhere who is doing something stupid or careless to put this company at risk.”
“...Try To Be Less White...”
Well, if we ever get out of this wretched winter and it gets warmer and we can see the sun again I’ll definitely catch some rays.😎
Do I have to adopt their culture???
“Fo shizzle, Dog! Gibsmedat Coke.”
It would make an attack by a school of piranhas on a bloody steak look gentle by comparison.
When Obama simply suggested that black men should stay with their 'baby-mamas' in order to ensure that more black children are raised in 2-parent homes, he was excoriated by his leftist allies including jesse jackson.
The scenario described in your post would result in Armageddon.
Learn to dance the soft shoe...
is that the same manufacturer?
Do they make a grape soda?
If I drank soda, I’d stop drinking Coke. They make a million other products though. I’ll stop eating/drinking those. Soon, I’ll have nothing left I can buy.
I will start being less white at work beginning today. I will now operate on the concept of “BPT” and show up 15 minutes late all week, as opposed to arriving at the parking lot 30 minutes early as I do every day. Plus my next girl friend will get to know real early that my “Pimp hand” is strong.
“I intended to do a post on why Trump nearly won but this post will suffice”
...he didn’t “nearly win”. He won.
I have never tried to be less than what I am unless it is fat.
Forget all that Pollyanna mumbo jumbo about ‘more inclusive’ workplaces, let’s skip the window dressing and get the campaign introducing New Coke back on track.
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