MGM Resorts Marketing Director in Springfield, Massachusetts, Albie Velarde has openly admitted that he would not hire white job applicants in a disgusting show of racism. Velarde was speaking to an undercover O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) investigative journalist when he made the damning admission that racism against white people is alive and well.
When asked to choose between an African American and a white job applicant who were equally qualified for an advertised role, Velarde said he would prefer the former.
“I’d Probably Hire the African American,” he responded.
When pressed on whether he actually did not want to hire white people, Velarde asked whether the applicant was a cultural fit, despite MGM Resorts in Springfield catering to people of all races.
“Because if they [whites] are not, no matter how great they look on paper, they don’t fit well with my team,” Velarde said, further raising questions about the composition of the marketing team.
“So I’m not going to hire them.”
“If our guests cannot connect with our employees, and if they are all white, it just doesn’t resonate the same way.”
“I will purposefully look for those diverse-based hires,” he added.
When asked if race played a role in the company’s hiring decisions, Velarde disclosed that MGM Resorts’ human resource management maintains an inventory of various population demographics and regularly sends a turnover summary.
“At a [MGM] property level, HR sends us, every month when they send us our turnover summary of the month, they’ll point out this month we lost this amount of females versus males.”
He also admitted that the turnover summary report influenced hiring decisions to maintain diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through affirmative replacement.
“Hey guys, we’re losing all of our female workforce. Let’s try, you know, let’s put more females through the pipeline.”
“So like if I lose one of my female hosts, I would try to replace her with a female,” Velarde said. “Selena, she’s my Vietnamese host, she’s very reserved, she’s very quiet. But that’s her culture. I would replace her with somebody who is, in some capacity, that culture.”
When asked to respond about the alleged discriminative hiring practices, MGM Resorts said the marketing manager’s claims do not reflect the company’s policies.
“This person did not have hiring authority during his employment at MGM Springfield and these comments do not reflect the company’s policies or practices,” MGM spokesperson stated.
While MGM Resorts denies the allegations, Velarde’s allegations are hardly far-fetched, as most pro-DEI organizations regularly engage in these discriminative hiring practices, thus Velarde likely said the quiet part out loud. In a recently resurfaced lawsuit, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was accused of discriminating against nearly 1,000 air traffic control applicants who aced the Air Traffic Selection and Training (AT-SAT) test because they did not check all the diversity checkboxes.
The lawsuit pertains to a mandatory “biographical questionnaire” the FAA introduced in 2013 in addition to the AT-SAT test, gutting an entire “Qualified Applicant Register” List of pre-qualified candidates who excelled in the technical and cognitive aspects of the test.
