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Fox News sued by two black female workers over 'top-down racial harassment'

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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...-top-down-racial-harassment-article-1.3012272

You think Fox News has moved on from their scandals but they end up in a new incident. Now its racism thats at play here in this new lawsuit. But it only puts more dysfunction to the spotlight.

Ridiculed black employees by mocking stereotyped speech and complained, for example, that black employees mispronounce the words “mother,” “father,” “month” and “ask,” by pronouncing the words as “muva,” “fava,” “monf,” and “axe.”
Openly claimed that the “Black Lives Matter” movement is extremely racist and wondered what would happen if there was a parallel “White Lives Matter” movement.
Regularly talked about her fear that black people want to physically harm white people.
Told employees that she does not travel north of 90th Street in Manhattan because she is afraid she will be “jumped” or “beat up.”
Blatantly mocked the “Black Lives Matter” movement. After the August 2014 shooting of Mike Brown, and the onset of the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” slogan, when Ms. Brown would stop by Slater’s office to say goodbye at the end of the day, Slater responded by raising her hands up in the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” movement.
Regularly called her commuter train to New Jersey the “Bombay Express,” due to the number of people of Indian descent who live in New Jersey.
Openly talked about her belief that all Chinese men have “small penises.”
Called day laborers “cheap Mexicans.”
Due to the number of employees of color in the payroll department, Slater regularly called the payroll department, the “southern payroll department” and the “urban payroll department.”
Asked Ms. Brown and Ms. Wright to teach her how to “beat box.”
Fox News Channel is currently the target of a federal probe into allegedly concealing big-bucks payments the company made to several women to quietly settle sexual harassment claims against former chairman Roger Ailes.
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RadioPatrol said:
You think Fox News has moved on from their scandals but they end up in a new incident. Now its racism thats at play here in this new lawsuit. But it only puts more dysfunction to the spotlight.
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This is the "other shoe dropping" from the Comptroller story a few days ago.
 
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/mobile/index/article/id/103570

http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/4/26/another-day-another-lawsuit-against-fox-news

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...t-joins-racial-bias-lawsuit-article-1.3101014

Update a new racial discrimination lawsuit comes out on Fox News. This was over a segment Kelly Wright was assigned to do but was not allowed to air the story.

An award-winning Fox News reporter has repeatedly been passed over for promotions “because he is black,” new court papers charge.

Emmy-winning anchor Kelly Wright is one of 11 current and former Fox News employees who have signed onto a proposed class action lawsuit against the network for alleged racial discrimination.

They include eight new plaintiffs, who joined an amended Bronx Supreme Court civil complaint on Tuesday.

“Despite his outstanding performance, and because he is Black, Mr. Wright has been effectively sidelined and asked to perform the role of a ‘Jim Crow’ — the racist caricature of a Black entertainer,” the suit, filed by Wigdor LLP, alleges. Wigdor filed another discrimination lawsuit in Manhattan Federal Court and an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claim against Fox.

Ex-Fox News exec forced staffers to arm wrestle, suit claims
The latest court documents detail multiple alleged slights against Wright’s career at Fox News.

On one occasion, he asked to appear on former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s show to talk about the racial unrest in Ferguson, Mo., but O’Reilly refused “because it showed Blacks in ‘too positive’ a light,” Wright claims.

O’Reilly, who was recently canned in the wake of sexual harassment allegations, is not named a defendant in the suit and his reps did not immediately comment.

Last year, Wright pitched a morning show on “positive stories about the African-American community and its contributions to the world” that would have aired before “Fox & Friends.”

The network went with the idea, but “rather than allowing Mr. Wright to host the show, Fox has given that job to another of Mr. Wright’s White colleagues.”

When Wright asked why he wasn’t given the position, execs told him they wanted a face from Fox and Friends — even though he had been on the show until his discriminatory removal in 2008, the suit contends.

In a statement, a Fox rep said the channel and company brass "vehemently deny the race discrimination claims in both lawsuits. They are copycat complaints of the original one filed last month. We will vigorously defend these cases.”

Other plaintiffs in the expanding discrimination suit claim fired Fox News controller Judith Slater allegedly chided black employees and forced them to arm wrestle their white peers.

Bill O'Reilly pushed a little closer to Fox News exit: report
Lawyers for Slater on Tuesday dismissed the allegations as baseless.

“These are meritless and frivolous lawsuits and all claims of racial discrimination against Ms. Slater are completely false,” said Slater’s attorney, Catherine Foti. “We have yet to see the alleged additions to the original lawsuit. Given how outrageous and offensive these suits are, it's incomprehensible to imagine how anyone has joined or would join these legal actions.”
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Honey, you best not be concerned about what color the IT guy is, because in today's business world he's your brain, spine, guts, you get the picture. You aren't going to be able to work without him being closeby somewhere in a pickle.
 
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