“OH, YOU BLACK PEOPLE”
No, that is not a quote from President Trump’s latest anti-fed employee executive order, but we can’t vouch for the drafts. The words were uttered by a Postal Service supervisor. According to the EEOC, his exact words to an employee, Harrison, were, “You Black people think you can do what you want to do; not while I’m here….you and Sammy [another Black driver] are just the same.” The day after he said them, he effectively suspended the employee indefinitely. Harrison filed an EEO complaint charging racial discrimination, which the Commission upheld because another supervisor testified that he overheard Harrison’s supervisor say at another time, ““Black people are a lot slower. They don’t have the intelligence to do the job unless you tell them to do it.” (Someone please check to see if that came from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 25 report.) The Administrative Judge ordered the agency to award… Continue reading