Bedevils? Poor choice of words. Apparently the town and the company involved are merely annoyed rather than outraged. :angryfire2:
I know racism is everywhere including northern states. Yet the most disturbing crimes often happen in Texas. Is this because Texas is the 2nd largest state and therefore just more likely to have more crime in general? Does Texas just breed racist people or do the criminally racist flock to Texas because they know they will fit in?
Racism bedevils Texas town
I know racism is everywhere including northern states. Yet the most disturbing crimes often happen in Texas. Is this because Texas is the 2nd largest state and therefore just more likely to have more crime in general? Does Texas just breed racist people or do the criminally racist flock to Texas because they know they will fit in?
Racism bedevils Texas town
Allegations of discrimination in plant are latest flare-up in Paris
By Howard Witt
HOUSTON Only a few weeks ago, race relations had reached such a low point in the troubled east Texas town of Paris that federal Justice Department mediators were called in to try to bring together black and white citizens, but the public meeting quickly dissolved into rancor. Now fresh racial tensions are erupting inside one of the town's biggest employers, the Turner Industries pipe fabrication plant, where black employees charge that hangman's nooses, Confederate flags and racist graffiti have been appearing throughout the workplace for months. One worker, Karl Mitchell, took pictures of the offensive symbols in early February and filed a formal complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week. Other African-American employees assert that they've repeatedly complained about the racist symbols to their bosses, only to be ignored or told to keep quiet. "Somebody had to step forward," said Mitchell, who also alleges a pattern of wage and promotion discrimination at the plant stretching back nearly two years. "They are so wide-open with [the racist displays] and so certain that African-Americans aren't going to say anything about it."
*SNIP*Officials at Turner Industries' headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., say they only learned of the discrimination allegations last week, when photographs of the racist symbols began circulating on the Internet. They say a noose and other inflammatory depictions and graffiti have been removed and a company investigation has been launched."All of us in management find all of that offensive," said John Fenner, the company's corporate general counsel. "We do not condone any displays of this type. I can promise you that in the event we uncover that any of our people participated in the display of any of those matters, they may very well lose their jobs." *SNIP*