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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 08:50 PM Jan 2019

The truth about racism today. Thank you, DJT

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/us/gm-toledo-racism-lawsuit/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1z1PlK-IQz0cvBraZcsaV7teEJGfZ1r2nxlc0GI8yUoZwiM0pykafEiRg

Inside the GM plant where nooses and 'whites-only' signs hung

Fourteen months where Marcus Boyd says he endured racist comments, slights, even threats in a hostile workplace run by General Motors.

A workplace where people declared bathrooms were for "whites only," where black supervisors were denounced as "boy" and ignored by their subordinates, where black employees were called "monkey," or told to "go back to Africa."

A workplace where black employees were warned a white colleague's "daddy" was in the Ku Klux Klan. Where white workers wore shirts with Nazi symbols underneath their coveralls.
In Ohio.

In 2018.


Much, much more in article. GM basically ignored the issue. The issue was finally referred to the Ohio Civil Rights Commission which began a nine month investigation and found the allegations were true and ranked it as one of the worst the Commission had ever investigated.

This is NOT my America. This is NOT the country I grew up in where the Civil Rights movement got Jim Crow laws struck down, where Presidents called out to military to overrule Governors who thought they were above the law, where SCOTUS struck down 'separate but equal'. Trump is an enabler and he need to be put OUT!
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