Disney Executive Admits In Undercover Video That The Company Discriminates Against White Males

It's a not-so-well-kept-secret that the Walt Disney Company often prioritizes skin color in hiring over things like experience, ability and qualifications. Of course, the company is smart, so they try to hide this. 

But a damning video captured by O'Keefe Media Group, founded by James O'Keefe, shows a Disney executive, Michael Giordano, telling an undercover reporter all about the discriminatory practices. 

"Certainly, there have been times where there's no way we're hiring a white male for this," Giordano said. 

The reporter suggests that this was an "unspoken" agreement, but Giordano shared that it's actually been said in front of him. However, he said that they are careful how they message those things to outside parties, like talent agents. 

Michael Giordano, a Senior Vice President at The Walt Disney Company, admits the company discriminates against white men when hiring.

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Additionally, Giordano admitted that he believes being a white man hurts his chances to move up within the company. 

"As far as Disney is concerned, I'm a white male and that's not who they're looking to promote at the moment," he said. 

It gets worse, though. Giordano said he has friends in the HR department at the Walt Disney Company, and they told him straight-up how they view the hiring process. 

"'Nobody else is going to tell you this, Mike, but they're not considering any white males for this job. They're just not,'" Giordano claims he was told. 

According to Giordano, it's not JUST about checking a box, though. He said that the company passed over someone who was mixed race because the person didn't "look black enough." 

"We wanted to hire somebody in the department a few years ago… who was half-black but didn't appear half-black," Giordano said. "They wanted someone in meetings who would appear a certain way and he wasn't going to bring that to the meeting." 

There's a lot of damning commentary in the full video. 

OutKick reached out to both Disney and Michael Giordano to ask if they had any comment on the video. We will update if/when they respond to our request.