Current and former Black Amazon employees claim racial discrimination
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 เม.ย. 2021
- Chanin Kelly-Rae said the lack of ethnic diversity in upper-level management at Amazon was one of the first things that struck her when she walked onto the company’s Seattle campus for the first time.
“The only Black people that I saw every day were either opening doors or cleaning floors,” said Kelly-Rae. “As a woman that happens to identify as Black or African American, I was never as consciously aware of feeling very detached or different in the space as I was at the Amazon corporate campus.”
Kelly-Rae was hired as a global manager of diversity for Amazon Web Services in 2019. Her job was to help Amazon’s cloud computing service division increase diversity. www.king5.com/article/news/co...
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I was a Transportation Area Manager for Amazon and the BLATANT racism is so disgusting the higher you move into management it’s sick!!
Why is this video getting so many “thumbs down.” She’s not lying. In HR most of the black people are HRA’s. I have the most degrees and experience out of my managers and team. I wanted to get hired to get my foot in the door and regret it. I will be looking real soon, especially with the Veteran discrimination as well. I did my part with college and my military service. It’s not a race card, but bigger than that!
@@Wichita821 What did the bad man say?
@@Wichita821 Well then, by all means, share the details. Who got his jaw broken?
" I have the most degrees and experience out of my managers and team." - well, someone has to do the work. If they keep hiring as they do, it will not be long before China (or India) replaces them on the world stage.
HR is full of White women are a "minority" and they're there to downplay racism
Getting do many thumbs down because yt ppl don’t like to be reminded of racial disparities.
That manager who groped her should be in jail!🤬
This is normal in corporate America
So that’s why they never hired me
@@Sincerit so you have the same problem as me! You feel the issue here. They need to fix it
@@Sincerit I was too. Duh
@@Sincerit smh 🤦🏾♂️
Notice thry don't have black men in corporate notice they don't have black men in the video it's really black men thry dontvwant black women still getting hired
FOH with that gender BS
Black men are the last hired, last in promotions and at amazon corp black men are behind other in race category in executive positions, Diversity means everyone else other than black men.
Waaa waaa waaa. Why pin black against black? If yall stuck with your women u might get somewhere in your struggle
@@jacobbaker4545 it's not me whodunit stick with them it's them whod9nt stick with .e they hate .ost of us and wish away our existence they are far gone they want to destroy not fix
@@jacobbaker4545 SIMP
I’m sorry you had to go through that feeling alone. My heart is with you.
Marginalizes... for sure... even more so the deeper the melanin
Part of the problem is how Amazon limits the advancement of entry level employees let alone minority employees they’ll hire 4 ‘s & up from off the street who are in certain cases are trained by level 1-3s but then will make it hard for a tier 1 to grow. I myself am a person who while in path who hits all the bench marks and have even done the work of a level 3 or 4 but because I don’t have the complexion or a degree or because I’m judged by my outward appearance I’m haven’t been given much opportunity to move up.
So Amazon confirmed her story and recruiter and multiple news agencies confirmed the level downgrade
Amazon Employees Need To Unionize
They Need A Union.
Know what the ultimate union is? Starting your own company!
amazon know that if they overworked and pay their workers low they wouldn't' be able to protest since 99 percent of their warehouse L1 workers live pay check to paycheck.
I would like to know who is representing you. I have an issue with the Amazon building where I work and I would like to talk to a lawyer.
I was out of work for 2 months last year because of blood clots to my lungs and the doctors put me on dialysis from my kidneys deteriorating over the years. When I returned to work, there were no accommodations set up for me and to this day there are still none. I turned in all the paperwork from the hospital and the dialysis clinic along with two signed permission waivers so they could contact the doctors about my condition. I’ve been threatened with write ups for not performing my job and now face termination because of attendance related to my dialysis treatments
Interesting article - as a manager from 🇳🇬 in oil and gas I can tell you I don’t see ppl like me at my level only at the bottom level
I'm a black male with a degree lol bruh the white lash is real
A degree in what?
@@Jianju69 certainly not English.
@@edenbreckhouse And you have a degree in English? Makes sense, I couldn’t see you having a degree in like Humanities or something.
It is so sad to know this experience is the bitter truth, got hired and paid to relocate to a new location out of state, got transferred again within the state...only for site to be decommissioned and no internal transfer initiated.
I have been off work for two weeks with no pay despite been active in the system.
I have made my complains known through available communication Channel, nothing has been said or done.Weird experience and definitely not preaching the DEI they seem to propagate.The hostility is real for the black skin gender and doesnt seem like it is gonna end.
I Don't have any loyalty in any company I don't own sock in, I don't understand why people think their essential to any company, because when its time to save money they will fire everyone at the bottom first.
I was having a good back n forth with someone last video where they go?
Wow. Glad you have found your path of success. It's not just Amazon, there are a lot of other corporate giants the same. Wish you the best
I’m only level 1. I’m speechless.
Wow 😢
I didn't know about this.
Why would you take that job then? You could have passed on it and went to another company with your qualifications.
Do what Shannon did.
Seattle got weird. I got a question for the observant lady, how man elderly folk you see working there?
Well when Amazon openly does diversity hiring.. You get what you get.
But I thought Bezos was with BLM? I thought he was so anti racist? Lol.
The time has come when an Anti-R will eat another Anti-R for being not enough Anti-R.
He is, but nothing is ever enough for the grievance crew...
@@Jianju69 Nice,
I don't know anything to speak of about Amazon ... except for what I can buy of course... But a general statement as to the issue of Discrimination in the workplace. I had a contract with a large Fortune 500 Corporation. They appointed a minority General Manager to not only hire minorities for work in this area but who appeared to recruit from hundreds of miles away to bring in minorities and people who would not normally try to work in that particular area. The company appointed the minority (and woman) to her job in all probability because this is what they wanted her to do. They surely knew and could have fired her. I always obey the Law, of course and when I am required to work with people ---- I simply do not complain about the people I work with because I think it is bad business but I will avoid people who complain in any way about me because I believe that to be good business. In brief... I don't know what compliance Government is requiring of Corporations but what little I see they are making an impact. How many Black Businesses promote their products on Amazon and how many products sold on Amazon are "Made in China"?
I work freelance and selective of my clients and I will not work for or with Blacks or illegal aliens and I choose my hours and days and you know what I feel so good about myself.
( Sigh ) "black" and "white" are caste-system terms only. They do not indicate ethnicity. The whole world knows this. There are people from Africa who have the caste-system term of "white"
Who made her a level 3 tho 😂 I’m level 1
*headdesk
Here’s there chance to give me a job. No worries I’ll wait.
Interesting
Class Action
👁
This is a fantastic piece that illuminates the voices of Black Women's lived experiences.
Listening to this on airpods though and the audio is terrible. I'm not sure why the background audio was only in the right ear and the voices were only in the left, but it made for a very bizarre listening experience.
Thank you for the strong piece.
That's because there's an institutional bias favoring the left earpiece. This video is designed to compensate for it.
Ah the lived experience argument. My lived experience is that people of colour just aren't as good at working hard than other groups. Do you deny MY lived experience or is it only valid when it's YOUR experience?
Well… a) there was no argument here. The video just talks about their argument. b) that’s not your lived experience. You’re saying that you saw someone else not work as well as you say they should. But you aren’t talking about your experience working, you’re talking about your observation of someone else’s work.
But in general, since when we’re eyewitness accounts not credible? They are in court and they are in academia, so I’m not really sure why this bothers you, or why you’re watching this video tbh.
But also, as a white man, YOUR lived experience is the basis for for all of western society. So… I’m a bit confused when you say that your lived experience doesn’t matter… because, historically speaking, when it’s my life or yours, your lived experience will probably win out.
@@bertjerome7883 Her "lived experience" is complete nonsense. Want to be successful? Go get it! Asian people do it just fine.
Racist is the sound Western Ignorami makes, I thinks it's their mating call
Dont worry my friends the saviour is here for Africans just wait few days
Ignorance at it’s finest 😂😂😂😂
This isn't just with Amazon this is with all companies let's make it make sense!!
They do the same with gingers like me. It’s totally disgusting. I never saw a red head in higher up ever!
😂
looking for easy money. clowns.
Bs, amazon is very inclusive. I have more black managers and PAs than white. In matter of fact I only know of 2 white managers. Blacks are everywhere in amazon even feels like they are treated better than whites are. They have black groups and latin groups and Asian groups. Where's the white group?? Not allowed.
Look, this presentation is chock *full* of complete nonsense: Namely, it starts by decrying the fact that "56% of management is white". Sounds awful, right? Well, only to those who lap it up without thinking critically. The USA is ~66-70% white, so actually white people are (80%) under-represented in management roles. In fact, management is 10.9% black, and since black people are 12.5% of the US population, they are actually better represented (88%) than white people by a wide margin! Ah, but look, Asian people are more than twice again over-represented (~220%) in management in relation to their percentage in America. Think critically, people! This is just more nonsense to make you think the white man is the source of all your problems.
black grievances never end
My white hispanic niece endured racism from her African American’ supervisor and my niece’s job was to be a boss for a large amount of African Americans who did not want to follow her rules and did not want to work extra hours or nothing . They were just lazy . It happened at amazon.
She ended up in a meeting defending herself from her boss’s accusations and transferring to another company.
They’re racist too. I don’t see them as victims and I never will
What is a white hispanic ? A hispanic that wants to be white? Ok, so the video is giving you statistics and Im sure your wanna be white niece can attest to the fact that the majority of the warehouses are full and fully operated by Melanated people so if they were lazy who is it that's pushing products across the floor and out the door everyday? Your niece thought she was going to be acting like an overseer on a plantation didnt she? She thought she could behave disrespectfully and speake with a condescending degrading tone didnt she? YOUR niece thought she was going to have Melanated people bow down to her and say " yes massa". At the end of the day your niece is whoever white corporate america wants her to be and just another servant/ underpaid slave like everybody else. Yall crack me up wanting to be something and someone YOU ARE NOT WHICH IS SUPERIOR .
Agreed, Maria. No ethnic group is devoid of negative thoughts, including racism. I'd go as far as to say that white people are actually much *less* racist than other groups. This is simply due to the fact that only they are held accountable for racism, (in America, or anywhere else, for that matter,) hence they do it far less than other groups.
Your comment is ridiculous- You do realize Americans as a whole Black, White, Hispanic or Asian that were born and raised here work less harder than immigrants from other countries (Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Latin America) Don’t marginalize all Blacks when work ethic in overall Americans is not on or with foreign born that’s just the truth
@@helenamensah7274 I agree that immigrants, especially those coming from South America, generally work much harder than native-born Americans of any color. Nevertheless, this article is complete nonsense, typical of brainwash media.
I can believe it . I put up with it for 6 years. The amazon I was at was mostly black and Spanish. During covid was horrible. Hr afraid to discipline black people because they cry racism. They think they can show up and not work and collect paycheck. Fact
Oh no! Anyways....
How do we even know if all of what she saying is true.. I don’t believe much of it.. always saying racism
STFU, we know when we're face with discrimination stupid idiot
This is a joke
Speak of yourself
Not buying it
Your opinion matters absolutely zero. Beat it.
Lol sounds like a racist
@@lotstosay6359 As if your opinions are made of Faberge' eggs and glitter...
@@lotstosay6359 His opinion has 11 likes to your measly 3 and I just added one for him, so what's up.
@@billbirchman362 y’all are weird
This is happening to me at Amazon, but with Islam. They told me to take my scarf off. And the only other hijabii has been there two years and didn’t have a promotion. They told me to take my hijab off after I explains I couldn’t participate in their co Ed activity that involved asking personal questions to everyone in the room.
She wants special treatment
I think it would be hard to understand unless ur in that group. Its easy for us to overlook