Black Cotton Gin Workers Taunted by Racist Boss
I didn’t even know we still had cotton gins! We do, and there is one in Memphis, Tennessee that comes complete with a racist supervisor who still believes in segregation.
They’re accusing their supervisor of calling them “monkeys” and telling them the water fountain and microwave were for White people only.
Antonio Harris and Marrio Mangrum say their former supervisor was stuck in the past.
To prove what was happening Antonio used his phone to record an incident at the water fountain that the supervisor said was for Whites only.
Harris and Mangrum filed a discrimination charge with the EEOC, which is now mediating with the cotton gin's owner. The owner of the cotton gin said he outsources the management at that warehouse. (Can you say "trying to distance himself"?)
On June 3rd TV Station WREG reported the supervisor is on vacation and has not been fired.
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