Conservative documentarian reveals credit card company is teaching employees that “capitalism is fundamentally racist.”
QUICK FACTS:
Christopher Rufo is a conservative writer, filmmaker, and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
On Wednesday, Rufo tweeted images of an American Express Corp. training program promoting fundamental principles of Critical Race Theory (CRT).
The program asks employees “to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities” and “rank themselves on a hierarchy of ‘privilege.'”
The training also promotes ideas such as “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” and “intersectionality.”
AmEx employees are also instructed to “deconstruct” personal attributes like “race, sexual orientation, body type, religion, disability status, age, gender identity, [and] citizenship.”
WATCH RUFO ON FOX NEWS:
As I told @IngrahamAngle: American corporations are now promoting critical race theory and claiming that capitalism is fundamentally racist. It's a fake ideology, promoted by fake corporate marketing campaigns, seeking to divide, shame, and control the American people. pic.twitter.com/wKgad8lSZD
SCOOP: American Express Corp. has launched a critical race theory training program that teaches employees capitalism is fundamentally racist and asks them to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, then rank themselves on a hierarchy of "privilege."
According to whistleblower documents, AmEx executives created an internal "Anti-Racism Initiative" that subjects employees to an extensive training program based on the core tenets of critical race theory, including "systemic racism," "white privilege," and "intersectionality." pic.twitter.com/pnpFkLYK8R
First, an outside firm teaches employees to deconstruct their "race, sexual orientation, body type, religion, disability status, age, gender identity, [and] citizenship" onto an official company worksheet—then determine where they stand on a hierarchy of "privilege." pic.twitter.com/NK6op1dex4
AmEx then instructs employees to change their behavior in the office based on their relative position on the racial and sexual hierarchy. For example, if a member of a subordinate group is present, employees should practice "intersectional allyship" and defer to them. pic.twitter.com/qu6P8nqnAd
In another handout, the instructions for white employees are more explicit: "identify the privileges or advantages you have"; "don't speak over members of the Black and African-American community"; "it's not about your intent, it's about the impact you have on your colleague." pic.twitter.com/iyLp8aqQf5
White employees are told not to utter common phrases such as "I don't see color," "we are all human beings," and "everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough," or they will be considered "microaggressors" against their black colleagues. pic.twitter.com/WcOT6wYJsm
Next, AmEx invited Dr. Khalil Muhammad—great-grandson of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad—to lecture on "race in corporate America." Muhammad argued that the system of capitalism is fundamentally racist and based on "racist logics and forms of domination." pic.twitter.com/llIEOUQiR9
Muhammad said the company should reduce credit standards for black customers and sacrifice profits in the interest of race-based reparations. "If you want to do good, then you’re going to have to set up products and [product] lines that don’t maximize profit," he said. pic.twitter.com/OZGDqu5MYl
Finally, AmEx recommends a series of resources for employees to dedicate themselves "to the lifelong task of overcoming our country’s racist heritage." These materials endorse "prison abolition," race-based reparations, and the idea that white children are racist. pic.twitter.com/mjI3kX1OhA
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Big tech platform bans renowned industry expert for airing Mike Lindell’s ‘Cyber Symposium’ analyzing election audit data from 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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Jovan Hutton Pulitzer is a leading, award-winning technologist and inventor with hundreds of patents to his name.
Pulitzer hosted a live-stream show on behalf of American Faith during which he provided commentary of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium.
Pulitzer was joined by former CEO of Overstock Patrick Byrne.
YouTube banned Pulitzer’s channel during the live-stream, citing “severe or repeated violations of [YouTube’s] Community Guidelines.”
YouTube did not specify exactly what Pulitzer or Byrne said or what content appeared on the live stream that deserved removal of Pulitzer’s channel.
WHAT YOUTUBE SAID:
“We have permanently removed your channel from YouTube,” the big tech platform said in an email to Pulitzer.
“Going forward, you won’t be able to access, possess, or create any other YouTube channels.”
Screenshot from YouTube’s email to Pulitzer taken August 11, 2021
WHAT PULITZER SAID:
“When you look at how YouTube decides what to ban, it’s all keyword-driven,” Pulitzer explained in a call with American Faith.
“I simply included the keyphrase ‘with Patrick Byrne’ in the YouTube video title, and that’s what killed me last night,” he said.
“Once that keyword was flagged by YouTube, they probably had one of their trolls watch my feed in real time, and, when they saw how many millions of people were consuming my content, they shut me down.”
Pulitzer went on to explain how YouTube will shut down channels for simply “mentioning election fraud,” even if that’s not central to the content.
“One you get on YouTube’s radar, they encode your stream, and there’s no way to get around it.”
Screenshot from YouTube’s email to Pulitzer before permanently banning his channel
ABOUT JOVAN PULITZER:
Pulitzer’s patents are licensed to billions of mobile phone devices through more than 330 companies, “ranging from early-stage firms to Fortune 100 Industry Leaders such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Verizon, T-Mobile, eBay, IBM, AOL, Cisco, Google, Walgreen Co, TiVo Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.,” and more.
Pulitzer is a Board Member at Gold Institute For International Strategy, a nonprofit organization focusing on developing national security strategies that aim to “promote the freedom, prosperity and security of our nations” with their “team of experienced political and military practitioners.”
He’s been described as “the man who will save America” for his work presenting forensic audit data before the Georgia State Senate after his in-depth analysis of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results. (See below.)
WATCH PULITZER’S GEORGIA SENATE PRESENTATION:
Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.
We don’t need a majority. Revolutions never have. We need a minority of Wide Awake Americans to coalesce, to see, judge, and act.
While helming Fox’s “Primetime” last week, Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech developed in his nightly monologues the theme of Americans becoming, not woke, but “Wide Awake.”
The “Wide Awake” label comes from another fraught period in American history. It was the name of a highly effective grassroots political movement in the pre-Civil War era.
“There were hundreds of thousands of [Wide Awakes] in 1860, and their organizations stretched from Maine to California,” Domenech explained last Monday. “They were a militaristic fraternity dedicated to human liberty. They had banners and marches and baseball teams. They carried oil lamps, wore capes, and wielded bats, and they stumped for a rising Republican rail-splitter named Abraham Lincoln.”
Throughout the week, Domenech called on Americans to consider this historical example to inform our actions today, in another era of despair, mob rule, political corruption, and a brutal coalition of elites and lowlifes against the aspiring middle class. Amid lockdowns, rising inflation, state-sponsored racism, doubt about the security of elections, the fecklessness of politicians, and the leftist control of everything right down to whether we can show our faces, many Americans feel hopeless and in rout.
This, Domenech argued, is the time not to slide into the sleep of despair, but to stomp our feet on the sleep-inducing fumes and shake ourselves awake for action: “The American crisis can be the opportunity for American renewal. That’s why it’s worth doing. It’s only by doing hard things and overcoming them that we find genuine happiness.”
“What does it mean to be wide awake? What are you prepared to do if you are?” Domenech asked in his Friday conclusion to the week’s series.
I’m not quoting Ben because he’s my boss, but because he’s 100 percent right, and he has more heart than I do most days, and that’s right, too. To follow up on this theme, I and several Federalist staff have compiled the following idea list of ways to develop your capacity for self-governance. Many people are feeling despair right now, and the truth is that things are likely to get worse before they get better. But for them to ever have a chance of getting better, we have to be willing to suffer today.
But not suffer pointlessly. Suffer with a purpose. Suffer for the cause of making a better future possible for our children and grandchildren. Suffer to preserve and expand our right to freely worship our God and live in fidelity to his commands. Suffer for the nobility of living a life of the deep meaning that can only come from sacrifice rather than the pointless life of constant self-gratification.
Stop talking, and start doing. Create the culture you want to see. Vote not only at election time, but with every day of your life, and every action you take. Self-government starts at home, with you, and now. Here are some places to start, or to start brainstorming more.
4. “Start a neighborhood group — present yourself under an umbrella that welcomes all other responsible members of your community who are sick and tired of being sick and tired, and who are willing to stand up.” (quote from Ben’s monologue)
9. Cut cable and send the cable payment to something useful, like your local church or a fund to help kids escape public schools.
10. Work out. If you already work out, up your game. If working out is intimidating, just start going for walks. See where it leads, and feel good about doing more than you used to.
11. Play board games with your kids instead of letting them watch some screen.
12. Organize a mass protest against school masking.
13. Start a local online news blog that uses open-records requests to obtain curriculum from the local schools and post screenshots and basic summaries of what you find.
14. Don’t send your kids to schools that medically and socially abuse them. Have education standards that are far above “free babysitting.”
15. Volunteer to coach local kids’ sports.
16. Go to church. Every week.
17. Go to church midweek, too.
18. Go to your church’s Sunday School or education hour before or after the service.
19. Pick up and drive an elderly, handicapped, or otherwise needy person to church on your way.
23. Notice that a neighbor struggles with something, like childcare or lawn care, or loneliness. Do something to help.
24. Invite people over to your house for dinner. If dinner is too intimidating, do drinks or dessert or popcorn.
25. Get to know your neighbors and your neighborhood.
26. Cultivate the art of hospitality, and use it as a tool to build community. Without thriving families and strong, close-knit communities, conservatives will never rescue or rebuild the republic.
27. Start or any kind of group that brings people together in other people’s living rooms regularly: a book club, a woodworking club, a volunteer group, a craft club, a playgroup for preschoolers and their parents — the possibilities are endless.
28. At Christmas, go caroling in your neighborhood (even if it shocks the neighbors).
29. Visit senior centers, and new neighbors, and anyone you think might be lonely; invite them to celebrate holidays with your family or church.
30. Try to buy less stuff made in China.
31. Watch local sports instead of pro sports. Better yet, participate.
32. Stop using social media. At the very least, use it as little as possible.
33. Move your savings and investments to pro-America institutions. If you can’t find any that are specifically pro-American, choose a small local bank or credit union. Or a pro-life one.
47. Think seriously about apprenticeships and starting in an entry-level job for your teens instead of or before heading off to college. Colleges are COVID traps right now, and even pre-COVID the value they provided in exchange for the time and money invested in them was significantly diminishing. Businesses are starving for workers right now and entry-level positions for many eventually highly paying jobs are wide open, such as in the trades and in entrepreneurial positions in small businesses, such as mechanics, construction, bakeries, florist shops, lawn care, and more. Employers are very often paying people to acquire skills while they work in well-paid, good-benefit fields like health care and construction, and they will take any halfway competent warm body right now.
48. Write a book. Publishing and libraries are a wasteland right now. People need better options.
49. Create a documentary.
50. Make jokes. Share them.
51. Make beautiful art, and bring it to art shows. Spread beauty.
52. Paint a public mural on a building visible to others that doesn’t look like those hideous graffiti “art” cities are putting up everywhere. Make it utterly gorgeous. Put those anti-beauty nihilists to shame.
53. Get your friends who can play or sing beautiful, classic, and fun music together and serenade passers-by in a local park.
54. Become a foster family. Private foster agencies are an especially good option.
55. Adopt a child.
56. Bring your local police station some home-baked goods or offer to buy officers on duty a nice big round of hot coffee from a local shop.
57. Call your local police station and tell them you support them and thank them for protecting you.
58. When your neighbors are being rude, walk over and nicely talk to them about it instead of calling the cops on them.
59. Go to a city council meeting.
60. Smile at people while you’re not wearing a mask.
75. Take a free online Hillsdale College course. Recruit friends to take the course with you and host discussions of it at your house, church, library, or another community center.
76. Donate your legal, financial, fundraising, maintenance, or other professional skills to a local church, Christian school, family, or another nonprofit charitable organization.
77. Start a men’s club of any manly variety — cigar smoking, shooting, running, drinking, self-improvement, business coaching, etc.
78. Mentor someone personally or professionally.
79. If you’re a woman, start dressing more femininely. Try a few dresses on, and buy one.
85. Support a Wide Awake writer on Substack, Patreon, or some other subscriptionor membership option.
Our country was built on small communities formed in the church, the square, the schoolhouse, and the tavern. From those meeting houses, we resisted first the petty tyrants on our docks and in the royal governors’ mansions, then took on the greatest army in the world.
We did that with what John Adams estimated was only one-third of our countrymen in full support, one-third fully against, and as many preferring to stay on the sidelines. Of that one-third in support, less than 10 percent fought in the Continental Army. We don’t need a majority. Revolutions never have. We need a minority of Wide Awakes to coalesce, to see, judge, and act.
Be a part of that band of small-time heroes, in whatever way you can. Keep your faith up. None of us truly knows the future. We can only act as nobly as we can in the time we have.
In closing, I want to quote more fully from the C.S. Lewis fantasy novel I referenced at the beginning of this article. The protagonists are trapped in a deep, dark underground, under the spell of a wicked enchantress telling them their memories of a better life in the country of Narnia aboveground are all dreams and lies.
The little band is saved by an unlikely fellow, the dour Puddleglum. He gives the following speech to the witch before stomping his bare foot right onto the fire to put out the enchanted incense it’s burning, lulling his friends into a sleep that will mean their deaths.
“Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one,” Puddleglum tells the witch. “And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.”
Suppose Joe Biden’s dark, glum America is the only future left. Well, I’m still going to live as much like an American as I can for as long as I can. Join me.
Thanks to the vote of a single Democratic senator, a federal law prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortion may survive.
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) joined with 49 Republican senators on Tuesday to pass an amendment prohibiting federal dollars from being used for abortions, potentially keeping a law on the books that has had bipartisan support since the 1970s. The amendment was added to the Senate’s $3.5 trillion budget resolution.
The law in question is the Hyde Amendment, a legislative provision that must be renewed annually and that has been backed by every president since Jimmy Carter. Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, both pro-choice presidents, signed budgets that included the Hyde Amendment.
President Biden opposes the Hyde Amendment, as do Democratic leaders in the House and Senate.
Manchin joined every Republican present to support the amendment, which was sponsored by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.). If Manchin had voted no, the amendment would have failed.
Pro-life groups say the Hyde Amendment has saved more than 2 million lives.
“We should all be able to agree – no American should be forced to pay for an abortion through taxpayer dollars,” Lankford said in a news release. “Just because a child is inside the womb does not mean they should be treated any differently by law. My amendment restates the long-term agreement that no taxpayer dollars fund an abortion, and no American should be punished for refusing to participate in an abortion. That should not be controversial.”
In a floor speech, Lankford noted that the Hyde Amendment has “been the law of the land since 1976” and has “been signed into law by Democrat and Republican presidents alike.” Biden supported the Hyde Amendment before he ran for president.
“The Hyde Amendment reflects a decades-long consensus that millions of Americans who are profoundly opposed to abortion should not be forced to pay for the taking of human lives of children, or incentivize it with their taxpayer dollars,” Lankford said.
A Marist/Knights of Columbus poll this year found that by a margin of 58-38 percent, Americans oppose using taxpayer money to fund abortions.
Lankford’s amendment also included language similar to the Weldon Amendment, which protects health care professionals from being forced to participate in abortion.
Democrats for Life celebrated the vote in a tweet: “The Hyde Amendment has been SAVED … Thank you @Sen_JoeManchin for standing up for LIFE!”
BREAKING NEWS: The Hyde Amendment has been SAVED and added to the latest Senate budget because of DFLA Endorsed Pro-Life Democrat Senator Joe Manchin!
The Susan B. Anthony List also applauded the vote.
“West Virginia is a deeply pro-life state, and Senator Manchin’s courageous votes have not gone unnoticed,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List said in a statement. “We encourage him to continue standing tall for the unborn and the pro-life Americans of the Mountain State.”
As we reported yesterday, the CDC falsely reported Florida’s Wuhan coronavirus data, claiming that there were 28,317 new cases on Sunday.
That would have been a record high and that prompted the liberal media to attack Florida (read: Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis).
Except it wasn’t true. What they actually did was combine the data for more than one day into that Sunday figure.
Florida’s Department of Health naturally complained and pushed back on the inaccurate numbers. The actual number for Sunday, according to the Department of Health was 15,319 cases. Thus, the CDC figure was an overcount of more than 13,000 — almost double the actual numbers.
The number of cases @CDCgov released for Florida today is incorrect. They combined MULTIPLE days into one. We anticipate CDC will correct the record. https://t.co/NjjUmIgM9h
Just a mistake, don’t you know? Now I’m sure that this was just a coincidence that this occurred as Joe Biden and the Democrats are in the middle of a battle of approaches with Florida over masks and mandates. The Democrats then used that news to attack DeSantis.
Today, the CDC basically admitted that the numbers they put up were wrong by quietly adjusting the numbers down. They updated Florida’s new cases to 23,958 for Friday, 21,487 on Saturday, and 19,584 on Sunday. But the numbers still were more than Florida’s numbers. According to the Florida Department of Health, the numbers were 21,500 on Friday, 19,567 on Saturday, and 15,319 on Sunday. The numbers were actually decreasing over the three days.
The CDC said yesterday they would be working with Florida to get the numbers right. But they’re still off and the CDC hasn’t given a reason as to why they got it wrong to begin with, much less why they are still off.
Add to that the false CDC claim that it was “as contagious as chickenpox” which, as we reported earlier, isn’t true. But again it stoked more fear and concern. It’s still pretty transmissible, but it’s important to get the numbers right, particularly when they then turn around and start trying to push mandates and restrictions in response to the claim.
Of course, that can lead to all kinds of speculation as to why — none of which is good. You have the choice between horrible incompetence versus deliberate political manipulation, neither of which should be acceptable here. But at this point, with so many “mistakes” — all seeming to go one way — it would be hard not to think it was intentional. They need to be held accountable for this. And they wonder why people doubt them?
Needless to say, this wasn’t received well on top of everything.
Fascinating that CDC would mistakenly inflate Florida’s COVID numbers at the same time as President Biden is trying to discredit Governor DeSantis’s handling of the pandemic. https://t.co/Tv9syr2XqN
Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of the pro-small business group Job Creators Network, slammed the 19 Republican U.S. Senators who supported the Democrat-backed infrastructure bill as suffering from “Republican Stockholm Syndrome” and said the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill “is just table ante for Democrats’ $3.5 trillion socialist bill that will quickly follow.”
“Democrats’ $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill is more reckless spending on long-held Democratic priorities like railroads, public transit, and electric charging stations. The bill is infrastructure in name only,” Ortiz said in a statement.
“According to a new analysis by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, only one in four dollars in the bill goes to roads, bridges, and airports,” Ortiz continued. “Adding insult, the bill is partly paid for by delaying President Trump’s prescription drug rebate rule that would have significantly lowered drug prices for seniors.”
H.R. 3684, or the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed on Tuesday by a margin of 69-30. Nineteen Senate Republicans voted for the infrastructure bill, handing an increasingly unpopular President Joe Biden a major policy victory. Those Senate Republicans include:
Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Roy Blunt (R-MO)
Richard Burr (R-NC)
Deb Fischer (R-NE)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Rob Portman (R-OH)
Thom Tillis (R-NC)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Jim Risch (R-ID)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
John Hoeven (R-ND)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Mitt Romney (R-UT)
Nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin, author of American Marxism, called the 19 Republican U.S. Senators who supported a Democrat-backed infrastructure bill “the Madoffs of the Republican Party” and said they chose “tyranny” by siding with Democrats to pass the bill.
