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Interesting read. The number of times the author mentions "white men" honestly made me uncomfortable. How is a statement like "Steve then proceeds to do what white men always can’t help but do: “educate.”" not racist in and of itself?
The company is Kixeye.
That's quite an ad-copy filled Wikipedia page they have (and an even weirder website). Not that this says whether Kixeye is the company described by OP.
The image at the top is from one of their many, many, obnoxious ads.
From the comment above (and several other parts of his article) he certainly appears to be just as racist as the people he's trying to demonize. Not to mention there's a crazy amount of self entitlement going on.
>I had a whole month of potential creative and community building energy stripped from me for the sake of this company’s profits. That shit ain’t cool.
A "whole" month of your "potential creative and community building energy"? Really? I have LOTS of months where I don't get to focus ANY time on any sort of creative or community building endeavors because I have other things that need to be taken care of.
I do not condone what he experienced at his workplace and that's terrible that it happened. However, his tone in the article and apparent prejudice towards white people makes it difficult for me to summon a lot of nice things to say.
There is covert racism. That's harder to stop, but a good way to start ending it is to accept that in the workplace you might want to restrict the "jokes" that you tell.
And then there's all the sub-conscious prejudice that's so hard to eliminate.
"We don’t even tolerate people brining up concerns of racism here." Translation: "we don't want to admit that we have a toxic, racist corporate culture so we're going to blame the messenger." The emphasis here is on racism, but there's a ton of casual sexism -- and I'd be surprised if ageism wasn't present, too. This is, at best, a company where HR have taken their eye off the ball. More likely, there are serious ins…
Reading this made me so angry... If I were a juror, I wouldn't convict the author for murdering the people in this post.
Edited to add: No actual murder has happened, nor should any actual murder happen. This was an overstatement meant to reflect outrage at injustice.
"then proceeds to do what black men always can’t help but do"
"black men always telling which way is up because they feel they are the “authority” when it comes to any and everything, most often when they don’t know shit about shit"
" I know when black people start to speak down to me from their pedatsol which is white privilege, they aren’t listening, nor will they"
"I cannot afford to take black people’s shit anymore."
Those are all quotes from the article, except I put 'black' where the author put 'white', both sets are clearly an unacceptable way to speak. While I am sure this guy has faced real disadvantage from some bigoted people, this post is laced with racism against white people and ridiculously over-the-top statements about colonialism and "neoliberal white supremacy".
plus the run dmc segue into the 'what i wore today' image was a bit gratuitous