and Canada by developing and curating DEI resources and strategies.” Samantha-Rae Dickenson as its new director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, to “lead the development and promotion of DEI plans and implement workplace and initiatives and best practices” and “support the 156 local Goodwill nonprofit organizations in the U.S. In June 2021, Goodwill International appointed Dr. According to O’Malley, the company’s national arm, Goodwill Industries International (GII), has been “pushing the regions” to adopt DEI policies. The implementation of DEI appears not to be limited to Goodwill of SWPA. When pressed for details about his dismissal, Goodwill of SWPA’s vice president of marketing and development David Tobiczyk told The Federalist that the company “does not comment on specific personnel matters.” The DEI Push Is Coming From The Top Down “I also really think it’s a betrayal of the donors’ trust.”
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“This was something I knew I wasn’t gonna win any friends by standing up for, but I just really feel that this is overreach by an employer trying to tell me how to feel,” he said. O’Malley provided The Federalist a copy of his termination letter from Goodwill human resources. The below screenshot shows Goodwill pledging to “only create merchandise” that represents members of preferred races.įollowing months of numerous objections to the region’s leadership and an attempt to obtain a religious exemption from the company’s DEI push, O’Malley says he was terminated without cause in September 2021.
McConnell did not return The Federalist’s request for comment.
“I said, so what you’re basically telling me is a white person and a black person can do the same thing, but a black person might be able to stay and a white person would get fired,” he said, while also claiming that Regional Director of Goodwill SWPA and North Central West Virginia Jessica McConnell told him, “That’s the point.” From a Goodwill employee website.įollowing the committee’s pivot to discussions about “DEI language” and plans on how to “achieve equity,” O’Malley says he began asking questions regarding disciplinary outcomes. “You were supposed to be able to offer your ideas, and so I suggested Thomas Sowell as an author to have some diversity of thought, and they told me that that’s not really what the DEI committee is about,” he added. “But I started asking questions about equality of outcome and equality of opportunity and I could tell that they weren’t too thrilled with me about that.” “I think they just assumed that I’d be on board with this because I foster children of all races and sexualities,” he said. O’Malley also says he attended a “safe space meeting meant for asking questions” that same month, in which he raised “concerns” about the company’s woke policies that stemmed from Goodwill International’s recently fostered DEI initiative. Implicit bias training is a common component of critical race theory and has been proven to be scientifically inaccurate to the point that some of the researchers who developed implicit bias tests have now repudiated them as wildly inaccurate and unreliable.
“They started pushing us to recruit employees to be part of it,” he said. O’Malley, who was employed with Goodwill for more than ten years, says that Goodwill of SWPA began holding “implicit bias training” for store managers in early 2021, which included a required “three to four hour” session led by a “racial equity trainer” in February. “They stated that it was gonna be different and we were gonna make it about our community and our places,” he said.
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