It's diversity day!1 Billionaires, Nazis, & KKK -- oh, my!1

[UTUSN]

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http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/linked_to_kkk_keeps_her_job_PfFEwT29YLqtToLV5MIgiI

Billionaire won't fire assisant for KKK link

Billionaire sugar baron Pepe Fanjul is refusing to fire his executive assistant, Chloe Black, despite her being married first to a former Ku Klux Klan leader, and then to the founder of a white-supremacist group.

Chloe, who has worked for the Cuban-born owner of Florida Crystals for more than 35 years, is the ex-wife of former KKK leader David Duke, and the current wife of Don Black, a former KKK grand wizard and member of the American Nazi Party. He now runs white-supremacist Web site StormFront.org.

Chloe's role with the powerful Palm Beach-based Fanjul family, which Page Six reported on in 2008, caused an outcry from civil-rights groups. Ironically, her duties include working with Fanjul's wife, Emilia, on The Glades, a Florida charter school that aims to help poor black and Latino children.

Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, told us: "Chloe Black is married to one of the most active white supremacists. We do not understand why she has not been fired by the Fanjul family. Her connections to white supremacists run so deep that it seems unthinkable that she work for a school for minority children." Chloe couldn't be reached for comment. ....

Paul Wilmot, spokesman for Florida Crystals, said: "While we may not agree with someone's politics, we wouldn't terminate them for that. We are a minority-owned company and enjoy a wide range of ethnic, racial, religious, lifestyle and political diversity among our thousands of employees.

"We will not discriminate against anybody, and that has been our policy forever. The rhetoric and beliefs of racial and other hate groups are abhorrent to Florida Crystals."

A source added, "This is business, it is not personal. Chloe had been with the company for 35 years when they found out about it, and she has always been a good employee. They don't agree with it, but they are not going to fire her."

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[ZombieHorde]

1. She makes them more money than she costs them, so she gets to stay.

$ > everything else

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Seeing as I work with about

%50 Republicans and of those . . . 98% hold these teabagger sympathies? Including my direct manager? I'm okay with them not firing her. Especially since I drive to work with a lot of obnoxious anti-republican and derogatory towards teabaggers bumper stickers on my cars.

Who'da thunk it though? She doesn't look like someone who would have been married to David Duke or married to the owner of Stormfront.org. I mean her eyes aren't crossed, she doesn't look like a neanderthal, she stands upright, she doesn't have a wart on her nose or chin, she doesn't look like her parents were siblings . . .

[lunatica]

3. This is just one more in that particular category that falls under WTF!

I mean, really?! WTF!

[UTUSN]

4. Seems like it's to the advantage of racists to muddy the definitions

It's like Black ex-t.v. reporter Carole SIMPSON said on Mistah KURTZ's show about Rick SANCHEZ's saying he is a discriminated-against minority member, paraphrasing from memory, "I didn't know, by looking at him, that he's a minority. He looks White to me, if it weren't for his surname, I wouldn't know otherwise." Uh, why isn't THAT racial profiling or otherwise offensive on the part of Ms SIMPSON?

Or in a FAST dial-by today of the local radio wingnut talk show, the wingnut host JOKED about congressional districts being tailored for one party the other (and repeating: JOKED), "district that is SWEET SMELLING ALL White Republican." He was JOKING, JOKING! So how come he didn't take it a step further and say the Dem districts SMELLED BAD?! It's like Rick was really fired for saying racist things STUPIDLY instead of saying racist things SMARTLY like LIMBOsevic.

So what's RICH (cough-cough) about this billionaire is that his company says they won't fire this woman because they value DIVERSITY! Ha HAH!

To me she looks like ANGLE and BREWER. Seriesly, I would not be able to tell them apart right now in my mind's eye, maybe not in actual pictures. Is that racist of ME, or would it have to go further, to say the 'Baggers all LOOK ALIKE?!

[angrycarpenter]

5. The Fanjuls are a bunch of exploiting bastards.

Their workers endure some of the worst conditions imposed on any agricultural workers in the US. They all live in squalid company housing in Belle Glade, one of the poorest hellholes in America while just 40 miles away they own a city block of Palm beach and live like royalty.

[Octafish]

6. Los gusanos mas blancos.

Make a good book, tying together a bunch having to do with the Bay of Pigs thing.

[UTUSN]

7. To Angrycarpenter & Octofish: That's what I suspected. n/t