Tyler O’Neil – Fox Business Sept 9, 2021
Five current and former employees at American Express – speaking on condition of anonymity – told FOX Business that the credit card company singles out Black people for promotion in a practice that former employees described as reverse discrimination against White people.
The employees, none of whom were in human resources, did not present internal documents to demonstrate an official policy, but they said they witnessed a worrisome trend that raises questions about racial discrimination in promotion.
One former employee said they quit because the critical race theory trainings and the apparent promotion of employees due to skin color sent the message that White employees could not expect to even be considered for promotion. American Express denied this accusation in a statement.
The ex-employee said efforts to advance in the company were futile.
“I wanted to move up really bad. I did everything I was supposed to do in terms of trainings and extra work. I was on committees, going out of my way to be helpful, being a leader on team calls and national calls,” the employee told FOX Business. “I saw the writing on the wall: There’s no way I can get promoted because of the color of my skin.”
The workplace culture at American Express changed drastically in the wake of the death of George Floyd, the former employee said. First came politically charged CEO statements about various news events, then employee training sessions focused on “microaggressions” and “unconscious bias,” and then the employee recalled seeing racial minorities promoted far more than White people.
“Before this happened, they would tell you how you would move up. ‘These are the steps you would take,’ et cetera. No longer did that matter because all that matters now is the color of the candidate’s skin,” the former employee said. “I would see these emails showing who got promoted. I’d say nine times out of 10, it was a Black person in that role.”
“You’re told, ‘If you work hard enough and you do the right things, you can move up in this company.’ That’s no longer the case at American Express. They’re only promoting Black people,” the ex-employee said.
“This is reverse discrimination against White people.”
American Express categorically denied the accusation.
“American Express has a longstanding commitment to living our company values, which include fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where all colleagues feel welcome and heard and have equal opportunities to thrive regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, age, religion, sexual orientation, and nationality,” an American Express spokesperson told FOX Business. “Our diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are singularly about upholding this commitment and are not based on any specific theory, nor are they targeted to a specific group of employees.
“We have a high-achieving culture, and we are proud of our dedicated and highly engaged colleagues,” the spokesperson added. “Advancement within our company is based solely on individual business and leadership performance. Any characterization of our company and culture to the contrary is just plain wrong.”
Yet other current and former employees backed up the whistleblower.
“I do think that minorities are treated preferentially at American Express,” a former employee of mixed-race heritage told FOX Business. This ex-employee said that the company “would not allow a director to make any hiring decisions unless there were enough Black people in the candidate pool.”
The mixed-race former employee also described a situation in which his supervisor said “it would be advantageous and important for me to note that I am a minority when I apply for internal promotions.”
A current employee also told FOX Business that American Express has singled out Black employees for promotion, “first and foremost.” They said the trend began over the past five years under the current CEO, Steve Squeri. “I would even go as far as saying that the probability of a White male getting a senior leadership position is very rare,” this current employee said.
The current employee said they had worked at American Express for many years and they “value American Express as a company. But the company that I came to work for is no longer the company that I work for.”
The current employee, who is also mixed race, told FOX Business that Amex caters to Black employees, and it only spends “a fraction of time on any other group.” They said this practice makes “colleagues that aren’t Black feel small or unwelcome. When there’s a diversity and inclusion push and it only includes one race, that’s very diminishing for other races out there.”
Neither of the mixed-race sources is part Black.
A fourth American Express employee said they also got the impression that they would not be considered for promotion because they were White.
“Do I have evidence that states that I would not get promoted? No. But the feeling, the atmosphere, the culture make you feel that way,” the employee told FOX Business. “In the hiring process, managers were told they could not hire people because they did not have a diverse enough candidate pool.”
This employee said the top brass at Amex began with good intentions after the death of Floyd. “I think they were headed down the right path, but then I think it just went off the rails quickly.”
The relentless messaging and CRT trainings created a negative atmosphere, this employee said.
“Every day it was something. I felt like I was being discriminated against,” they said. “It’s OK to address racial diversity two or three times – we need to be equal. But they brought it up every day.
“You could tell it was one-sided from the top and they were telling us that’s the way we should be thinking,” the employee added.
Another former employee told FOX Business that “the vast majority” of the people they’d seen hired and promoted “have been Black.” This employee noted that they did not make hiring and promotion decisions, but they confirmed that it seemed as though Amex prioritized Black applicants.
The former employee recalled a staff meeting in which the CEO went over the statistics of American Express employees by race. “We don’t really have that much of a diversity issue, I thought,” this person said, seeing the numbers. Squeri drew the opposite conclusion, saying, “We have to do better.”
Yet the former employee argued that companies like Amex should not work to hit a racial benchmark, such as a certain percentage of employees must be Black. “At that point in time, you’re not hiring the best fit for the position, you’re hiring based on the skin color,” the employee said.
The former employee who worked hard to get a promotion expressed regret about having to leave the company but said there was no choice.
I love American Express. I really do. It’s a great brand, but they’re going to destroy the brand,” the former employee said.
“They have no business in the social justice ‘woke’ arena. They’re there to make money. That’s the only reason they’re in business. If they go the way of the ‘woke,’ they’re going to lose a lot of business.”
The hire and promote Black agenda occurs in companies throughout the USA, especially in large companies known to the public.
Microsoft mentioned they plan to double the number of Black managers.
Currently most young White people favor diversity, equity, fighting the mythical systemic racism, but after numerous years of their White skin preventing them from acquiring good jobs and promotions they’re going to get frustrated and perhaps stop voting for the Democrats and make some noise and won’t care if they’re called racists.
When the economy collapses, things get worse for Whites, regarding employment, it might serve as the beginning of race wars in America. The NWO gang very happy.
Jews probably make sure their employers know they’re not part of the disgusting White race, very understandable.
Okay…WHO OWNS AMERICAN EXPRESS…..
It is owned by the Jewish elite,like almost all big multinationals in America.
Will Jews be affected by this racism….no….their networks will ensure they ARE NOT affected.
The boardroom will be 90% jewish….some may of course be crypto jews.
The jews own America….simple.The last time they had this much power MILLIONS OF RUSSIANS DIED.
Check the author of the GULAG Archipelago….and his book Two Hundred Years Together.
Idiots believe Trump will be their saviour……NO HE WONT.
He is a jew like the moronic prick Biden
L@@K…..it is too much of a cohencidence that his cosmetic surgerized daughter is married to a top jew.
Okay…WHO OWNS AMERICAN EXPRESS…..
It is owned by the Jewish elite,like almost all big multinationals in America.
Will Jews be affected by this racism….no….their networks will ensure they ARE NOT affected.
The boardroom will be 90% jewish….some may of course be crypto jews.
The jews own America….simple.The last time they had this much power MILLIONS OF RUSSIANS DIED.
Check the author of the GULAG Archipelago….and his book Two Hundred Years Together.
Idiots believe Trump will be their saviour……NO HE WONT.
He is a jew like the moronic prick Biden
L@@K…..it is too much of a cohencidence that his cosmetic surgerized daughter is married to a top jew.
here in the UK th government has told the CBI Confederation of British Industry to employ foreign first for some time
recently my busy rail ststaion ha sacked all its white workers and now every single one is black or muslim
Enoch Power knew the agenda and warned of this 40 years ago and before him Oswald Mosely warned of it 80 years ago
Despite their spiel about providing the public a service the credit card companies are as shallow as most others. Forty years ago the actor Mark Hamill said he was asked to do an advert for American Express, and as he was still enjoying Star Wars success as Luke Skywalker he was offered good pay for the advert so he said yes. After filming it he said he was so impressed by the deal they offered their customers he applied for an AmEx card. They turned him down.
Of course as with all financial institutions in the U.S. are fully owned and operated by Shlomo and his fellow tribal thugs who promote white genocide.
What’s with all this “reverse” discrimination BS? Discrimination is discrimination, whether it’s against blacks, Whites or green people with purple spots. There is no such thing as “reverse” discrimination. The only way that term could have any meaning is if it meant treating everyone equally and hiring on the basis of suitability for the job, otherwise known as sanity or common sense, something too many employers lack nowadays.
Fortunately I’m retired now, but I wouldn’t have worked for a company that valued skin colour or perversion above abilities, and as far as possible I try not to have any dealings with such abominations. I certainly wouldn’t apply for an American Excuse card.
Saint George Floyd was a criminal that died of a drug overdose while resisting arrest. There’s absolutely no reason to sanctify scum like him – except in a White-hating country, which the whole world is rapidly becoming.
NO race is born 100% evil, except possibly the one we’re not supposed to mention, but even they have a few “good” members able to see through the lies and expose (((the tribe))) for what it really is.
Blacks as a group do have a natural tendency toward criminality, but millions of blacks manage to overcome this and become good citizens, even though “our” White civilization isn’t of their making.
No race is 100% evil, subject to the exception mentioned above, and similarly no race is 100% good. We Whites are the most creative of the races (actually species), but we too have our undesirables, so to hire or promote job applicants purely on the basis of race is utter lunacy.
The best person for the job will help to boost profits, while inferior choices based primarily on cosmetic factors such as skin colour, or “lifestyle choices” that defy and violate the rules of Nature, will ultimately bring the company down.
Under “jew” rule, the world HAS gone mad.
The Jews are out to destroy us – and by ‘us’ I mean all gentiles. Black people are being used only as pawns in their evil divide and rule games.
Just what more do they have to do before we finally stand up and say ‘enough is enough’?
American Express were a “bit slow” weren’t they ?
West Midlands police were accused of such tactics a decade ago, I wonder how that policy is working out.
Where I live, It’s blatant, it seems every council or utility company are employing Jimmy Grants WHOLESALE, They seem to be for now, the ‘go for’ or side kick, But how long before ‘One of them’ is in a position to start hiring personnel ! Then ‘it’ hits the fan..
(Oh ! hang on. This is already the situation in local ‘authorities’ & Government appointments, no one can deny this)
It’s a terrible ‘script’, Just watching One episode is enough for anyone to know how the series ends.
They obey the people who are incompetent but will riot hard if they are not given what the Whites can arrange for themselves out of the dust, being amazingly clever. “Gimmy yo monneh, honky!”
I had a friend who worked for Amex in Brighton many years ago. In the mid 90’s he was telling me about their extraordinary efforts to build predictive algorithms based on card spending.
With the benefit of hindsight we can see that this was the beginning of research into social credit.
Now it seems Amex are blazing another trail in CRT.
Pigs.
I worked for a nationally well known British supermarket chain around 1997 and an HR manager admitted to me then that the company had an ‘anti-British’ recruitment policy.
That was certainly confirmed by my own observations. Blacks and Asians were recruited in preference to whites, and no matter how unqualified or incompetent, were promoted regardless.
If there is such a thing as microaggressions, with this woke thinking, won’t they become macroaggressions?
Oh, Babylon?
https://strangerinajewishworld.blogspot.com/2021/09/destroying-white-race-is-part-of-jewish.html
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What! Have they been blind, deaf and dumb for the last 20 -30 years?
@ BARNEY
the nature of the blacks is a warior .
its in their genes since centuries + more.
the women were the planters + creators
and the men were wariors defending the tribe
or enslaving other tribes and selling them
to arabs + jews. many soft tribes over centuries
were eradicated this way. the last only are the
pygmajos and bushmen in kalahari.
the germans once also were wariors but
decomposition by church + aristocraty over
centuries domesticated us to this civilisation .
@ BARNEY
but what can a white workman do
when the most companies in a capital
are owned by jews ? ! !
he cannot live from nothing and gets
no wellfare (only breeded asyl parasites).
@ THOMAS PICKERING
YOU ARE ALRIGHT WITH ALL YOUR
JEWGOOGL FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE !
KEEP ON WITH ANY MEANS YOU FIND !
but the mayority of people is so brainpissed
by jew media .
As Barney notes, we are looking at a foreign idea of language here, not mere illiteracy. They obviously think “discrimination” means having an unfair low opinion of Black people and acting on it from your position of power, when it means seeing or otherwise sensing differences between any two or more things e.g. a left shoe and a right shoe.