Coca-Cola staff told in online training seminar 'try to be less white'

Coca-Cola raised some eyebrows this week for promoting an online
training seminar that urged employees to “try to be less white”
in order to combat racial discrimination.

Slides from the training seminar shared online this week
featured tips on how to tone down whiteness.

White people in the United States and other western nations, are
“socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because
they are white,” another slide reads.

It continued: “Research shows that by age 3 to 4, children
understand that it is better to be white.”

The seminar has predictably provide divisive, with some praising
the company and others threatening to boycott it.

Attorney and Center for American Liberty founder Harmeet
Dhillon, who shared the slides on her Twitter, said the slides
seemed “like blatant racial discrimination.”

In a letter to Fox Business, the soft drink giant said the
slides being attributed to a Coca-Cola training program “are not
part of the company’s learning curriculum.”

“Our Better Together global training is part of a learning plan
to help build an inclusive workplace. It is comprised of a
number of short vignettes, each a few minutes long," the company
said.

It noted that the training is publicly available on LinkedIn,
and includes a "variety of topics, including on diversity,
equity and inclusion.

"We will continue to listen to our employees and refine our
learning programs as appropriate," the company said.

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