The C.O.W.S. Neutralizing Workplace Racism 08/26/22

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Friday, August 26th 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly summit on Neutralizing Workplace Racism. One week after NPR reported that California will be the first state to enact legislation to track “Black employee data by lineage,” the Los Angeles Times reported the largest “Racial Bias Cases,” where “latino” workers are accused of terrorizing black workers. The details and scope of the investigation are staggering. Anna Park, regional attorney for the EEOC’s Los Angeles district office, reported that, “There’s a more blatant display of hatred with the N-word, with imagery, with nooses. All the violence you’re seeing in the news, it is manifesting in the employment context.” Black employees of Cardinal Health and AppleOne charged that in 2016: “Black workers were subjected to the N-word by co-workers and managers ‘many times per day…including ‘n— bitch’, ‘lazy ass n— ain’t did no work all day,’ and ‘Look at those n—looking like monkeys, working like slaves like they should be.’’ The first worker to file a complaint described being called anti-Black slurs in English and Spanish, facing prejudice from a Latina supervisor and being deliberately run over with a cart by a Latino co-worker. A men’s restroom was defaced with ‘n—killer.'” #BlackGetBack All forms of mistreatment should be stopped, and no one should be terrorized in the workplace. However, Gus suspects Whites are using this incident of workplace abuse to spread confusion. The term “latino” is not a Racial classification. The workplace terrorists in this instance could be Spanish-speaking Whites. Also, just this month, Gus read about workplace abuse in Florida where black people were called “blue gum monkeys.” Whites did not include quotes of the sadistic slurs used by Whites in the workplace in the same manner as with California’s “latinas” and “latinos.”