Walmart has forced more than 1,000 executives to through ‘critical race theory training’ that teaches white people are guilty of ‘white supremacy thinking’ and ‘internalized racial superiority,’ according to documents leaked by a whistleblower.
Walmart launched the training program in 2018 under CEO Doug McMillon through the Racial Equity Institute – a North Carolina-based firm that works with universities, government agencies and corporations – making the program mandatory for executives and recommending it to hourly-wage employees.
According to the documents leaked to City Journal, the program begins with the claim that the US is a ‘white supremacy system’ designed by white Europeans ‘for the purpose of assigning and maintaining white skin access to power and privilege.’
The whistleblower also claimed that McMillon is a believer in critical race theory and hopes to export the program to other large corporations through his role as chairman of the Business Roundtable, which comprises of more than 200 of American’s largest companies.
Despite the commitment to promote diversity and racial equality, only one of Walmart’s nine top executives is not white, Global Chief Technology Officer Suresh Kumar, and the vast majority of its 40 vice presidents are white.
The top six leaders reportedly made a combined $112 million in salary in 2019.
According to leaked documents, the program, which was developed with the Racial Equity Institute, begins with claims that the US is a ‘white supremacy system,’ designed by white Europeans ‘for the purpose of assigning and maintaining white skin access to power and privilege.’ It argues that American history has carried on with a long sequence of oppression, from colonial 1680 to President Barack Obama’s stimulus legislation in 2009. It states that white Americans have been subjected to ‘racist conditioning’ that indoctrinates them into ‘white supremacy.’ The program summarizes white supremacy through a list of qualities including ‘individualism,’ ‘objectivity,’ ‘paternalism,’ ‘defensiveness,’ ‘power hoarding,’ ‘right to comfort, ‘and ‘worship of the written word’. Discussion about racist conditioning are then reportedly conducted in racially segregated groups because different races have ‘their own work to do in understanding and addressing racism.’ It allegedly teaches trainers to believe they are guilty of ‘white privilege’ and ‘internalized racial superiority,’ while also teaching about the struggles of employees of color. The program reportedly pushes trainers to think ‘white is not right’ and to move forward into thinking that ‘white can do right.’
Walmart’s program allegedly argues that American history is a long sequence of oppressions, from the ‘construction of a ‘white race’ by colonists in 1680 to President Barack Obama’s stimulus legislation in 2009, ‘another race neutral act that has disproportionately benefited white people.’
It also teaches worker that white Americans have been subjected to ‘racist conditioning’ that indoctrinates them into ‘white supremacy,’ or the view ‘that white people and the ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions of white people are superior to People of Color and their ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions.’
Discussion about racist conditioning are then reportedly conducted in racially segregated groups because ‘people of color and white people have their own work to do in understanding and addressing racism.’
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The documents claims employees are then taught about the struggles of minorities who believe the ‘myths promoted by the racist system,’ develop feelings of ‘self-hate,’ ‘anger,’ ‘rage,’ and ‘ethnocentrism,’ and are forced to ‘forget,’ ‘lie,’ and ‘stop feeling’ in order to secure basic survival.
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