Posted on 08/20/2021 9:17:55 AM PDT by Heartlander
Bank of America Corporation has implemented a racial reeducation program that claims the United States is a system of “white supremacy” and encourages employees to become “woke at work,” instructing white employees in particular to “decolonize [their] mind[s]” and “cede power to people of color.”
Earlier this year, Bank of America’s North Carolina and Charlotte market president Charles Bowman announced a new “equity” initiative called United in Action, in partnership with the United Way of Central Carolinas. According to documents I have obtained from a whistleblower, BOA executives launched the initiative by encouraging employees to participate in their “Racial Equity 21-Day Challenge,” a race-training program funded in part by the bank and built on the principles of critical race theory, including intersectionality, white privilege, white fragility, and systemic racism.
On the program’s first day, Bank of America teaches employees that the United States is a “racialized society” that “use[s] race to establish and justify systems of power, privilege, disenfranchisement, and oppression,” which “give[s] privileges to white people resulting in disadvantages to people of color.” According to the training program, all whites—“regardless of one’s socioeconomic class background or other disadvantages”—are “living a life with white skin privileges.” Even children are implicated in the system of white supremacy: according to the program materials, white toddlers “develop racial biases by ages three to five” and “should be actively taught to recognize and reject the ‘smog’ of white privilege.”
Over the next three days, Bank of America teaches employees about intersectionality, unconscious bias, microaggressions, and systemic racism. “Racism in America idolizes White physical features and White values as supreme over those of others,” the program asserts. As a result of being part of the “dominant culture,” whites are more likely to “have more limited imagination,” “experience fear, anxiety, guilt, or shame,” “contribute to racial tension, hatred, and violence in our homes, communities, and world,” and, subsequently, “react in broken ways as a result.” People of color, on the other hand, cannot be racist, because “racism is used to justify the position of the dominant group . . . and to uphold white supremacy and superiority.” Therefore, the discussion guide claims, “reverse racism and discrimination are not possible.”
On days five and six, Bank of America encourages white employees to confront their “white privilege” and “white fragility,” in order to “discover where [they] are on the privilege spectrum” and “if [they] exhibit ‘white fragility’ traits.” As part of the program, Bank of America employees take a series of diagnostic tests, in which they assess their racial and sexual identities, check a series of boxes to identify their “white privilege,” and probe racist attitudes that could contribute to their “white fragility.”
In days seven through sixteen, Bank of America covers a laundry list of progressive concepts and policy priorities, including “microaggressions,” “racial trauma,” “the abolishment of the police,” “the school-to-prison pipeline,” and “environmental justice.” The training program claims that racist microaggressions can contribute to post-traumatic stress disorder in black Americans and that “racism can be just as devastating as gunfire or sexual assault.” America’s economy is described as a “caste system” with “African Americans kept exploited and geographically separate.” The American policing system, according to the materials, was founded on “slave patrols whose task was to capture, control, and brutalized enslaved people”; this system is “woven into the DNA” of American society and, according to the activists in the training module, can be solved only through “the defunding and even the abolishment of the police.”
In the program’s final days, BOA encourages employees to become “woke at work” and practice “allyship.” Participants must admit that “[their] words and actions are inherently shaped and influenced by systemic oppression” and must commit to doing “the inner work to figure out a way to acknowledge how [they] participate in oppressive systems.” After they have addressed their complicity in racial oppression, employees are encouraged to engage in the actions of “building a race equity culture.” A worksheet provides specific instructions, including: “decolonize your mind”; “accept that white supremacy and institutional racism are real”; “challenge white dominant cultural norms”; and “cede power to people of color.”
In its very name, the Bank of America Corporation claims to represent the United States. Yet instead of promoting American ideals, the company’s executives have adopted the radical, pseudoscientific concepts of critical race theory. They are pushing intensely ideological messages on their employees, from race-based collective guilt to abolishing the police. Let the American public know and judge accordingly.
There is only one way to achieve “equity”—kill all white people.
Anything else is just a temporary compromise.
Yes, the idea of “eliminating whiteness” is utterly meaningless unless it means literally eliminating white people.
what a horrible place to work - or keep your money.
The white executives should not just quit.
They need to kill themselves to prove they are no longer white oppressors!
And who of what demographic is teaching that America is racist? Who believes it? (That’s an easy one) How is it that someone smart enough to attain a CEO position would fall for the woketards’ obviously false narrative? We are supposed to “cede power to people of color” so that these business types can more easily run roughshod over affirmative action cannon fodder. I double they have true feelings of guilt re their ancestor’s digressions.
I left BoA back when they supported Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. They didn’t care at all.
“what a horrible place to work - or keep your money. “
The white customers, who have stayed with them are liberals or self labled/so called independents.
Structured racism — should be criminal and civil lawsuits.
If you’re “woke” you’re just another word for Politically Correct (PC). If you’re PC you’re an idiot!
Seems like these banking racists think they can carry on the same business with only POC money. How do these ‘whites are evil’ entities like BOA deal with their wokeness when confronted with white GBLT folks?
Bankamigo.
Merrill Lynch is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of America. Probably 90% of their advisors, executives and customers are white. Curious if any note the ownership connection and if Merrill employees buy into the same CRT bs.
People with inferiority complexes don’t play well with others.
Stuck with BOA for convenience but will move money as soon as Truist completes their merger in 2/22 and I have easy access to a nearby branch. Hopefully they will not jump on the CRT bandwagon as well.
OK, so rename it to “Indigenous Peoples’ Bank” and transfer all Whitey’s money to non-Whites.
Big banks don’t want retail money at all. They are morphing into investment banks, and only maintain small customer accounts to keep up appearances to regulators. They would prefer that you pull your money and go away.
Today they’re not even close to what they started as a hundred years ago.
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