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CV NEWS FEED // Two Best Buy employees recently reported that religious and racial discrimination is taking place within the company, leading to calls for a boycott.
According to O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), the first whistleblower sent OMG screenshots from Best Buy announcing new management programs for employees. The announcement stated that interested candidates must “identify as Black, Latino, Hispanic, Asian, or Pacific Islander.” The program was not open to white employees.
When OMG released the screenshots on X (formerly Twitter) on August 8, the tweets went viral, with commenters calling for a boycott against Best Buy and “the Bud Light treatment.” OMG reported that Best Buy CEO Corie Barry made her X account private in response to accusations that Best Buy discriminates based on race.
Two days later, OMG tweeted new information provided by Geek Squad employee Enis Sujak, a Serbian immigrant and Christian employee in Jacksonville, Florida.
Sujak told CatholicVote that during “pride” month this year, his department’s well-being ambassador held a meeting to teach staff about “LGBTQ+ history,” since the ambassador’s daughter “identifies” as LGBTQ+.
“I took it upon myself to leave peacefully and thought nothing of it,” he said.
Sujak said that he later confronted his manager, Mike Hirsch, over the LGBTQ+ flags in the office and the propaganda class. Sujak recorded their conversation.
“If we’re doing all that gay pride flags and all that transgender stuff… why don’t we have Christian stuff all over?” Sujak asked Hirsch.
Hirsch responded by saying that “they’re not the same.”
“You are choosing to believe in Christianity or Muslim [sic]… you choose that. They [LGBTQ+ people] are not choosing to be gay,” Hirsch said.
In an interview with James O’Keefe, CEO of OMG, Sujak said Hirsch refused to allow displays of Christianity like a cross or a Bible. Hirsch called such symbols “inappropriate at the workplace,” but Sujak pointed out that the office is covered in LGBTQ+ flags and countered that those displays aren’t work-appropriate either.
“I wasn’t standing for that,” he told O’Keefe.
Sujak also tweeted a photo of an “inclusivity poster,” which has QR codes leading to eight employee resource groups, including “Asian, Black, disABILITIES, Indigenous, LatinX, Military, Pride, and Women’s.”
“Inclusion, except if you’re a white male,” Sujak tweeted.
“I’m going to remain vocal and stand up for our country, our beliefs, because this is getting out of hand,” Sujak said in a recent video. “This agenda that they’re pushing… I’m not standing for that.”
OMG tweeted on Monday that Best Buy had put Sujak on paid leave. Sujak told CatholicVote he was expecting the move, and plans to work somewhere else in the future.
“I just don’t see how they can have me work for them after I exposed them,” he said:
We do have some clients who are LGBTQ and might not get the full context (left-leaning media lies) of my story. There are chances those folks might get violent. There’s a lot of uncertainties in those situations.
“In all honesty, I don’t see myself continuing at Best Buy as they’re anti-religious and anti-white people. I’m not okay with working for a racist organization,” he said.
“My message to the world is to trust in God and his plans,” Sujak told CatholicVote. “One day you’re working a 9-5 and the next day you’re getting all the love and support from everyone around the world,” he said, referring to the support he has received after blowing the whistle on Best Buy.
“I won’t be silent, we need to speak out against this LGBTQ religion. They’re pushing this on us everywhere,” he concluded. “We must stand together and bring back common sense.”
