growing up in New York you could say I was a default liberal my political opinions to the extent I had them weren’t deeply thought out they just Were My Philosophy was Live and Let Live say what you want do what you want just don’t physically harm or abuse another person I also never thought much about my skin color or anybody else’s for me and my friends race was never more than a punchline to a joke after graduating from college I got my dream job as an engineer at a major toy company Hasbro everything seemed to be moving in the right direction and then one day the company decided that all the engineers would have to attend a training session on implicit bias racial awareness and intersectionality this was my introduction to the mad mad world of corporate Dei diversity Equity inclusion when I heard about the session I rolled my eyes all I wanted to do was make cool toys for kids but if the company was going to make me sit through some HR mum jumbo I’d play along the sooner I got through it the sooner I could get back to the drawing board literally so there I was on a zoom call with a bunch of other employees listening to a Dei presentation entitled racial biases and children children hold racial biases adults maybe but Hasbro’s clientele it struck me as a little weird a voice in my head said I should record the session the presenters a husband and wife team started by claiming white babies as young as 3 months begin to exhibit racial preferences by two years they’re excluding other children based on race by three they’re intentionally using racist Language by four they’re showing a strong and consistent pro-white anti-black bias and by five they hold the same racist biases as their parents you think most 5-year-olds are innocent these presenters think they’re auditioning for the KKK Hasbro these M readers added was compounding the problem our toys skewed white and were therefore perpetuating anti-blackness for both kids and adults they said stereotypes in the product and marketing can reinforce dangerous hostility and resentment what our toys should be doing they informed us is teaching children about racial power and privilege we had a special responsibility to do this because as toy makers we had Direct access to Children’s brains we could give them a head start on the road to developing a racial identity consciousness my head was exploding I thought our job was to help kids have fun and develop their imaginations when the presenters finished the 70 or so people on the call were mostly silent except for some mild comments I really didn’t know what they were thinking but I was appalled and disgusted and the more I thought about it the worse the feeling became these presenters were telling every white person in the room that they were racists and they had been racist their entire lives while black people have been taught to be disgusted with their skin color their entire lives together we were all perpetuating white supremacy by not being anti-racist in our toy design and how could we atone for our sins create new toys to make little white and brown and black kids aware of their racial identities in case you hadn’t noticed I’m black did that absolve me of any guilt did it make me more culpable I had no idea none of their BS made any sense I should add that nobody at Hasbro ever mistreated me because of my skin color then almost as an afterthought I remembered I had recorded the entire thing if people could see what I just saw maybe they would understand how twisted this obsession with the race had become I needed to tell someone anyone but I didn’t trust the corporate news outlets so I decided to go a non-traditional route I remembered seeing interviews with James O’Keefe the founder of project Veritas I sent him the recording his team saw its value immediately Within weeks hundreds of thousands of people knew about the Hasbro presentation it quickly came out that this husband and wife team had also partnered with Google MGM the NFL and Nickelodeon among other bigname brands Hasbro as you might imagine wasn’t pleased with what I had done they were smart enough not to fire me and bring more attention to the story instead when my contract expired 6 months later that was it my dream toy engineering career was over so why why did I do it why did I choose to turn over this Dei Rock and expose the poisonous creature beneath it it would have been easier to say nothing but that’s what these race agitators count on intimidating people into silence that ticks me off and I don’t like them teaching kids to be obsessed with race that really takes me off so I took action because I could and because I believed it was the right thing to do if enough of you join me we can stop this m mess di must d e I’m David Johnson for Prager University thank you for watching this video to keep prageru videos free please consider making a tax deductible donation
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