{"id":637684,"date":"2021-08-12T15:36:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T19:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=637684"},"modified":"2021-08-12T15:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T19:36:34","slug":"very-real-consequences-steve-forbes-slams-american-express-over-woke-diversity-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-real-consequences-steve-forbes-slams-american-express-over-woke-diversity-training\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very Real Consequences\u2019: Steve Forbes Slams American Express Over Woke Diversity Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvery-real-consequences-steve-forbes-slams-american-express-over-woke-diversity-training%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=637684&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1192138904-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Steve Forbes \u2014 the editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine \u2014 warned about the implications of countries like American Express participating in divisive diversity training.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As The Daily Wire\u2019s Chrissy Clark <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/american-express-invited-nation-of-islam-founders-great-grandson-to-speak-to-employees-about-the-evils-of-capitalism\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> on Thursday, whistleblower documents reveal that American Express \u2014 a financial services company that earned $2.3 billion in profits last quarter \u2014 welcomed the grandson of the Nation of Islam\u2019s founder to discuss the evils of capitalism with employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/11\/american-express-tells-its-workers-capitalism-is-racist\/\"><span>New York Post<\/span><\/a><span> published portions of Dr. Khalil Muhammad\u2019s lecture about \u201crace in corporate America.\u201d He blamed the plight of black America on \u201csystemic racism\u201d and said that American Express must do more to address its relationship with \u201cracial capitalism.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo, I first say that American Express has to do its own digging about how it sits in relationship to this history of racial capitalism,\u201d Muhammad argued. \u201cWe didn\u2019t get to the wealth gap by virtue of a series of bad decisions and bad decisions and bad parenting by black boys, black people. We got there through exploitative extractive systemic racism.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Forbes \u2014 who has made two bids for the White House as a Republican \u2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/financials\/steve-forbes-warns-american-express-of-business-consequences-from-crt-training\"><span>debunked<\/span><\/a><span> the narrative forwarded by Muhammad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThese things have very real consequences,\u201d he told Fox News\u2019 Maria Bartiromo, \u201cand I wonder if AmEx is going to bring in people to talk about the virtues of free markets and how it enables people, as Lincoln put it, to improve their lot in life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd how slavery had been with us for 4,000 and human existence, only in the last 200 was a real effort made to get rid of slavery led by religious leaders,\u201d Forbes noted. \u201cSo it\u2019s all fine to talk about the past. But the thing is, where do we go from here?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Forbes then proposed other avenues for bettering the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd I would like a course on how we can change the schools in America, which are holding back millions of kids with a rotten education, which we saw during the pandemic,\u201d he said. \u201cHow about liberating kids from the schools so the parents have real choice and get their kids a good education and a better life?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to an analysis by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/one-year-after-george-floyd-americas-biggest-corporations-earmark-37-billion-for-racial-equity\"><span>The Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span>, Fortune 100 companies \u2014 the largest firms in the United States by revenue \u2014 allocated over $37 billion toward racial equity initiatives since the death of George Floyd in May 2020. The allocations represent less than 0.5% of the companies\u2019 collective $9 trillion of earnings from the last fiscal year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Forbes \u2014 the editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine \u2014 warned about the implications of countries like American Express participating in divisive diversity training.As The Daily Wire\u2019s Chrissy Clark reported on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}