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It will be a webfest against woke.

A nonpartisan coalition, Color Us United, will hold an online event at 7 p.m. on June 9 to give employees an avenue to speak out anonymously against racially biased corporate policies and equip them to fight back.

"Many employees are aware that their company is discriminating against non-preferred races and cancelling and even firing employees who speak out," Color Us United President  Kenny Xu told Central Nova News on Thursday. "Yet, perhaps they think this is just a company-wide issue that can be resolved internally. They are unaware that there is a national woke agenda behind this and it is bent on internalizing wokeness across companies in America nationwide.

"We made this 1st National Zoomfest to inform employees about the extent of the woke damage in companies nationwide — and possibly, how to approach your company about it. This is also your opportunity to interact directly with some of the key players in fighting wokeness across businesses in the nation by asking questions."

The event will feature headline speaker Vivek Ramaswamy; an author, speaker and former CEO of a multibillion-dollar biotech company; the Color Us United website said. His book, "Woke Inc.," is a New York Times bestseller. It examines corporate "wokeness" from a CEO’s point of view. 

The organization noted that sweeping policies are taking corporate workplaces by storm. 

Color Us United says the sweeping policies are taking corporate workplaces by storm. A publicly available LinkedIn learning series on diversity training used but not required of employees by Coca-Cola instructs people to try to "be less white." Lowe's pushed white workers to "cede power to people of color." The Salvation Army demanded workers to "repent" for the country's racism.

American Express recently held a racially-charged Diversity, Equity and Inclusion seminar with Nation of Islam-tied speaker Khalil Muhammad, an August report by Daily Mail.com said. The seminar was called "A Conversation about Race in America: Reflecting on our History and the American Dream." The seminar described capitalism as "racial capitalism," and AmEx decried its staffers as "complicit" in protecting white privilege.

New polling from Color Us United and Echelon Insights exposed the fact that more workers at large corporations have been forced to attend so-called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs than "sales, customer service, general company procedures, or other sessions that could improve their work performance."  

While 90% of workers surveyed reported that they attended a race-based training, only 59% of employees underwent training on sexual harassment, and only 67% received necessary job training, the Newsweek report said.                    

Zenefits, a human resources platform, said in a 2019 release that diversity and inclusion programs can have unintended consequences. 

"Research has overwhelmingly shown negative messaging in D&I training not only doesn’t help, but it may also set inclusion efforts back," the release said. "Social scientists have also found, over a number of years, that people naturally tend to rebel against enforced rules."