The Home Depot is distancing itself from a pamphlet that was distributed to some of its Canadian retail employees that urged them to “check” their white privilege.
The “unpacking privilege” pamphlet, which was posted in the lunchroom of a Home Depot in Calgary, Alberta, urged white workers to acknowledge that their skin color grants them unearned “societal privileges” and provided a privilege checklist for employees to track if they’re white, male, Christian, able-bodied, or heterosexual.
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