American Express invited the great-grandson of the Nation of Islam's founder to tell its staff capitalism is 'racist' and has put workers through critical race theory (CRT) training to teach them to 'identify their privileges' and 'not speak over black colleagues'.

Internal documents, obtained by Manhattan Institute Fellow Christopher F. Rufo for the New York Post, show how the credit card giant - which saw its revenue swell to a whopping $31.36 billion last year - is telling its workforce behind the scenes that the same capitalist system that pays their salaries was founded on 'exploitative extractive systemic racism.'   

The documents include a promo page and partial transcript for a company event where Khalil Muhammad, the great-grandson of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad, was invited to speak.  

In it, Muhammad told Amex workers that capitalism was based on 'racist logics and forms of domination' and urged the credit card giant's execs and workforce to look at their own company's role in that system.  

Amex's revenue grew 6.5 percent in the last fiscal year while profits for the last quarter topped $2.3 billion. CEO Stephen Squeri took home a total salary package of $24.2 million in 2020, including $7.8 million total cash, $15.9 million equity and $500,000 in other compensation.    

Other documents, provided by whistleblowers, also reveal how Amex created an 'anti-racism initiative' for its workforce covering topics including 'systemic racism', 'white privilege' and 'microaggressions.'