David Johnson Exposes Hasbro DEI Training Teaching White Babies Are Racist at Three Months Old
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David Johnson Exposes Hasbro DEI Training Teaching White Babies Are Racist at Three Months Old
David Johnson, a black engineer at Hasbro, recorded a mandatory DEI training session that claimed white babies exhibit racial preferences at three months old and are using racist language by age three. The presenters argued that Hasbro's toys perpetuated anti-blackness and that toy makers have a special responsibility to teach children about racial power and privilege because they have direct access to children's brains. Johnson leaked the recording to Project Veritas, exposing how major corporations are indoctrinating employees with race-obsessed ideology. His contract was not renewed six months later, ending his dream career in toy engineering.
David Johnson grew up in New York as what he calls a "default liberal." His political opinions weren't deeply thought out—they just were. His philosophy was simple: live and let live, say what you want, do what you want, just don't physically harm or abuse another person. He never thought much about his skin color or anybody else's. For him and his friends, race was never more than a punchline to a joke.
After graduating from college, Johnson landed his dream job as an engineer at Hasbro, a major toy company. Everything seemed to be moving in the right direction.
The Mandatory DEI Training That Changed Everything
Then one day, the company decided that all engineers would have to attend a training session on implicit bias, racial awareness, and intersectionality. This was Johnson's introduction to what he calls "the mad mad world of corporate DEI—diversity, equity, inclusion."
When he heard about the session, Johnson rolled his eyes. All he wanted to do was make cool toys for kids. But if the company was going to make him sit through some HR mumbo jumbo, he'd play along. The sooner he got through it, the sooner he could get back to the drawing board—literally.
Children Hold Racial Biases
Johnson found himself on a Zoom call with a bunch of other employees, listening to a DEI presentation entitled "Racial Biases and Children." Children hold racial biases? Adults, maybe, but Hasbro's clientele? It struck him as a little weird. A voice in his head said he should record the session.
The presenters, a husband and wife team, started by claiming:
White babies as young as three months begin to exhibit racial preferences
By two years, they're excluding other children based on race
By three, they're intentionally using racist language
By four, they're showing a strong and consistent pro-white, anti-black bias
By five, they hold the same racist biases as their parents
"You think most five-year-olds are innocent? These presenters think they're auditioning for the KKK," Johnson recalls.
Hasbro's Toys Perpetuate Anti-Blackness
The presenters added that Hasbro was compounding the problem. The company's toys skewed white and were therefore perpetuating anti-blackness for both kids and adults. They said stereotypes in the product and marketing can reinforce dangerous hostility and resentment.
What Hasbro's toys should be doing, they informed the engineers, is teaching children about racial power and privilege. The toy makers had a special responsibility to do this because they had direct access to children's brains. They could give them a head start on the road to developing a racial identity consciousness.
Johnson's head was exploding. He thought their job was to help kids have fun and develop their imaginations.
The Aftermath of the Presentation
When the presenters finished, the 70 or so people on the call were mostly silent, except for some mild comments. Johnson really didn't know what they were thinking, but he was appalled and disgusted. The more he thought about it, the worse the feeling became.
These presenters were telling every white person in the room that they were racists and had been racist their entire lives, while black people have been taught to be disgusted with their skin color their entire lives. Together, they were all perpetuating white supremacy by not being anti-racist in their toy design.
How could they atone for their sins? Create new toys to make little white and brown and black kids aware of their racial identities.
"In case you hadn't noticed, I'm black," Johnson says. "Did that absolve me of any guilt? Did it make me more culpable? I had no idea. None of their BS made any sense."
Johnson notes that nobody at Hasbro ever mistreated him because of his skin color.
Going Public with Project Veritas
Almost as an afterthought, Johnson remembered he had recorded the entire thing. If people could see what he just saw, maybe they would understand how twisted this obsession with race had become. He needed to tell someone—anyone—but he didn't trust the corporate news outlets. So he decided to go a non-traditional route.
Johnson remembered seeing interviews with James O'Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas. He sent O'Keefe the recording. His team saw its value immediately. Within weeks, hundreds of thousands of people knew about the Hasbro presentation.
It quickly came out that this husband and wife team had also partnered with Google, MGM, the NFL, and Nickelodeon, among other big-name brands.
The Cost of Speaking Out
Hasbro, as you might imagine, wasn't pleased with what Johnson had done. They were smart enough not to fire him and bring more attention to the story. Instead, when his contract expired six months later, that was it. His dream toy engineering career was over.
Why He Did It
So why? Why did Johnson choose to turn over this DEI rock and expose the poisonous creature beneath it? It would have been easier to say nothing, but that's what these race agitators count on—intimidating people into silence.
"That ticks me off," Johnson explains. "And I don't like them teaching kids to be obsessed with race. That really ticks me off."
Johnson took action because he could and because he believed it was the right thing to do. "If enough of you join me, we can stop this madness," he concludes. "DEI must die."
