Critical Race Theory (CRT) Infiltrates American Express Company
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Among the many negative events
that have happened in the last months, I was
extremely surprised when I read an article in Fox
Business about CRT. The article describes the
training program for American Express Company’s
staff given by a consulting company.
Knowing that CRT is an
important part of the dangerous plan to implement
socialism in the US, I wrote a letter to Amex CEO
Stephen J. Squeri, found below, to protest this fact
as a customer of Amex. Several other news outlets
have also reported this event.
I know that I am only one
customer and if I leave them, they will not care
much, but I did it anyway with the hope that if more
customers complain, Amex might cancel this training.
Sometimes we must take a stance and express our
views in the hope of helping our country and also
with the hope for the possibility that more Amex
customers will also complain.
Several days have passed and I
have not heard from Amex. This is why I am
publishing this article as I told Amex I would.
Hopefully you will help in this mission.
Here is the letter:
Pembroke Pines, Florida
August 11, 2021
Mr. Stephen J. Squeri
Chairman and CEO
American Express Co.
200 Vesey Street
New York, NY 10285
Dear Mr. Squeri:
I am your card holder since
1975 who currently has a Platinum and Gold cards. I
am generally satisfied with your service and try to
promote your company to my family and friends.
Today I am really upset after
reading and article which describe how you have put
your employees through a Critical Race Theory (CRT)
training. This theory is one of the most racist
theories ever invented. Its main idea is that there
are different classes of people, which is nothing
new, but the way they divide these groups is by
using their gender, sex orientation, race, national
origin, religion, able-bodied or handicapped, age,
and other parameters.
This theory erroneously assumes
that people in certain groups are either
“Privileged” or “Marginalized.” You asked your staff
to place themselves in one of these two groups and
further requested that those that consider
themselves “privileged,” act a certain way and
refrain from using certain phrases as they interact
with the other group. This theory fails to account
for each individual’s drive, intelligence,
education, and motivation. It assumes that if you
are classified as “Marginalized,” you cannot be
successful unless you are helped by others. This is
pure racism at its best!
If I were one of your staff
members using the directives of this training, I
would classify myself as a “Marginalized.” I am
Hispanic of Cuban decent, my family came to the US
with nothing, so we were poor, I did not have
dominion of the English language, I am now
considered old. I worked hard and went to school
while having three jobs to raise my family. I was a
banker for 41 years and a college professor for 7
years. I obtained a doctorate degree at age 66. I
refuse to be classified as “marginalized” because in
the US, I had the opportunity to do all of these as
long as I had the motivation to do so.
I am sure you have many
employees that probably feel the same way I do
and have
important positions in your company that they have
earned with their hard work and tenacity. I am sure
that these do not feel “marginalized” either. This
theory also assumes that if you are white, male,
heterosexual, Christian, able-bodied, and born in
the US, you are “privileged.” That is even more
racists, because it assumes that you have succeeded
because of these qualities and not because of your
motivation and effort. I know, and I am sure you
also know, of many people who fit this “privileged”
criteria that are failures and high-risk workers and
people not to be trusted.
After looking at the members of
your executive cadre, I see there many who would be
considered “marginalized” by this theory, but yet
they hold high and important positions in your
company. This fact alone, discredits the CRT
completely.
American Express is a symbol of
Corporate America and has the record and reputation
of being at the top of the list. Capitalism was not
founded in racism as a recent speaker, Khalil
Muhammad, told your staff at the racism event you
sponsored. This speaker proposed that American
Express should reduce credit standard for black
customers. This a racist comment which assumes that
all black people are poor credit risks. He also
said: “If you want to do good, then you’re going to
have to set up products and lines that don’t
maximize profits.” This is clearly a socialistic
idea which should not have any space in the US.
Mainly because, it has been tried, and it does not
work.
I sincerely hope you stop this
CRT training and go back to the corporate culture
that has propelled you and many other companies to
excel. By stopping this nonsense, you would be
showing your leadership in Corporate America for
other companies to follow and eliminate this racist
and damaging theory.
I am just one customer, but if
I do not receive a satisfactory response to my
letter, I will stop doing business with you and I
will do anything, in my limited power, to persuade
others to also stop doing business with you.
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Rolando M. Ochoa D.B.A.