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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox exec. demanded black employees arm wrestle white employees.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/oreilly-is-gone-but-fox-newss-legal-nightmare-continues.html...Next week, according to sources, seven black Fox News employees plan to join a racial discrimination suit filed last month by two colleagues. The original lawsuit alleged that Fox Newss longtime comptroller, Judy Slater, subjected members of Foxs payroll staff to racial insults for years. (Fox News fired Slater in February after those employees began litigation against the network.)
Lawyers representing the payroll employees are demanding that Foxs accounting director, Tammy Efinger, also be removed from supervising an employee because she allegedly participated in Slaters racist behavior. In a letter to the networks lawyers obtained by New York, the attorneys state: Not once did Ms. Efinger step in or attempt to interfere with Ms. Slaters outrageous conduct. The letter adds, instead, Ms. Efinger chose to laugh or giggle following Ms. Slaters vitriol.
The letter also includes new allegations of racism in Fox Newss accounting department. According to the plaintiffs attorneys, Slater demanded that black employees hold arm wrestling matches with white female employees in her office, just down the hall from Ailess office on the 2nd floor of Fox headquarters. Forcing a black woman employee to fight for the amusement and pleasure of her white superiors is horrifying. This highly offensive and humiliating act is reminiscent of Jim Crow era battle royals, the letter says, referring to the practice of paying black men to fight blindfolded at carnivals for white spectators entertainment. The lawyers argue that Efinger bragged about wanting to fight a black employee.
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Fox exec. demanded black employees arm wrestle white employees. (Original Post)
Cattledog
Apr 2017
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)1. What the ever loving fuck!
This network needs to go DOWN, now! Sick bastards!
FarPoint
(12,486 posts)2. Shut Foxx Down!!!
One way or another....Expose their dirty secrets will work...Cost them money and deplete their advertising sources.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Deams are coming true.
Dang it. Price tag guess's?