Crime Racist Texas Town Hangs Noose, Confederate Flag in Workplace

[The Helper]

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."

Whole story here.

 

[XXXconanXXX]

This makes me sick.

I love my state but backwards ass racist rednecks like that are making us look bad and polluting our gene pool with century-old retarded ideals that they just won't freaking let go of.

 

[Mac Dre]

This makes me sick.

I love my state but backwards ass racist rednecks like that are making us look bad and polluting our gene pool with century-old retarded ideals that they just won't freaking let go of.

Amen

 

[DrakonStar]

This makes me sick.

I love my state but backwards ass racist rednecks like that are making us look bad and polluting our gene pool with century-old retarded ideals that they just won't freaking let go of.

Ah, inbreeding. The scourge of so many eugenicists.

Seriously, racism will take a long time to die, by which a newer prejudice might take over.

 

[Samael88]

Seriously, racism will take a long time to die, by which a newer prejudice might take over.

You are forgetting one thing there.
Racism comes from fear of what you don't know much about, or something like that.
And I am sorry to say, you can't kill fear

 

[Azlier]

>Racism comes from fear of what you don't know much about, or something like that.

I'm fairly sure that those Southern racists are not afraid of those they prejudice. What you say would be correct if we were talking of medieval peasants and their battle against witchery.

"We found a witch, may we burn her?"

 

[Effane]

Nice thing about fear is it leads to isolationism. I say let them be racist, just build a fence around them. They will thikn they are being done a favor, the rest of us get to live in a slightly happier world.