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SCOOP: Bank of America Corp. teaches employees that the United States is a system of "white supremacy," promotes "the abolishment of the police," and instructs workers to "decolonize [their] mind[s]" and become "woke at work." The whistleblower documents will shock you.🧵
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Earlier this year, Bank of America and the United Way implemented a race reeducation program called United in Action, encouraging employees to participate in a "Racial Equity 21-Day Challenge," built on the principles of critical race theory and intersectionality.
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On day one, 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."
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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 white toddlers are guilty and must be "taught to recognize and reject the 'smog' of white privilege."
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Over the next three days, Bank of America teaches that whites are more likely to "have more limited imagination," "experience fear, anxiety, guilt, or shame," and "contribute to racial tension, hatred, and violence." People of color, on the other hand, cannot be racist.
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Next, Bank of America instructs white employees to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities and 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."
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Later, Bank of America teaches that the policing system was founded on white supremacist "slave patrols" and, according to activists, can be solved through "the defunding and even the abolishment of the police."
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