The Coca-Cola team said at an online training seminar ‘try to be less white’

Coca-Cola raised some eyebrows this week for hosting an online training seminar that urged employees to “try to be less white” to combat racial discrimination.

The training seminar slides shared online this week offered tips on how to reduce whiteness.

Tips for “being less white” included: “be less arrogant, be less secure, be less defensive, be more humble, listen, believe, break with apathy” and “break with white solidarity”.

Another slide tells viewers that, in order to face racism, they must understand “what it means to be white, challenging what it means to be racist”.

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Whites in the United States and other Western nations are “socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white,” says another slide.

He continued: “Research shows that around 3 to 4 years old, children understand that it is better to be white.”

The seminar predictably caused divisions, with some praising the company and others threatening to boycott it.

Center for American Liberty lawyer and founder Harmeet Dhillon, who shared the slides on her Twitter, said the slides looked like “blatant racial discrimination”.

In a letter to Fox Business, the soft drink giant said that the slides assigned to a Coca-Cola training program “are not part of the company’s learning curriculum.”

“Our Better Together global training is part of a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace. It consists of a series of short vignettes, each lasting a few minutes, “said the company.

He noted that the training is publicly available on LinkedIn and includes a “variety of topics, including diversity, equity and inclusion.

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“We will continue to listen to our employees and refine our learning programs as appropriate,” said the company.