Color Us United to Hold Virtual Press Conference
Kenny Xu will be taking questions on AMEX's Wokeism
The virtual press conference will begin at 11 am ET on Tuesday, April 19. Both Xu and Watson will take questions.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85378830563?pwd=YUlCcFVFZjhxM2duY0xETVVGQUR0Zz09
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Passcode: 382895
The 30-second American Express commercial, "UnAmerican Express," begins with a list of claims against the credit card giant that American Express denies.
"Investigated by the U.S. government, caught processing a Soviet-era politician’s dirty money, paid hundreds of millions in fines for deceiving customers. Rather than clean up their act, American Express has gone woke," the narrator says. "Employees say people are promoted and told to offer lower premiums based on race, Amex administered critical race theory training that told employees capitalism is racist."
Consumers’ Research then calls for American Express to "serve customers, not woke politicians," the same mantra used in the Levi's ad. Consumers’ Research has partnered with New Tolerance Campaign and Color Us United, which launched a campaign last month designed to get credit card giant American Express to stop "racially divisive policies" that they feel are infiltrating many of the nation’s most prestigious companies.
"If American Express employees carried out the ideas suggested to them by the company, to treat customers differently based on race, they would violate a myriad of federal civil rights law and financial regulations against discrimination," Hild said.
Last year, the Manhattan Institute's Christopher Rufo began a series of investigative reporting on critical race theory at America’s most prominent companies.
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