Lightfoot said she was limiting anniversary interviews to journalists of color to highlight ongoing racial disparity in newsrooms, particularly in City Hall coverage.
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What happened to diversity and inclusion? Isn't "white" a color? This is just wrong on so many levels. During a time of attacks on Jews and Asians, do we really need a mayor of one of the largest cities in America taking this kind of stance against people of a certain color?
Your thread title was intentionally incomplete and therefore intentionally and factually misleading. I fixed it for you.
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Apparently not a color..
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Atkinson Cotton Warehouse, a cotton gin in Memphis, Tennessee, subjected Black employees to extraordinary racial discrimination, refusing to allow them to drink out of a “whites only” water fountain, calling them racial slurs, and threatening them with hanging — not decades ago, but in 2014.
Employee Untonio Harris used his cell phone to record his white supervisor making threats against African American workers if they attempted to drink from a water fountain designated only for white people.
“Hey!” says the supervisor in the recording.
“What?” asked Harris.
“I need to put a sign here that says ‘white people only’.”
Harris also recorded his attempt to use the microwave.
“I am going to use the microwave,” said Harris in the recording.
“Hell no!” said the supervisor.
“Why can’t I use the microwave, man?”
“Because you are not white.”
“For real?”
“As a white man, we don’t even let Larry use it.” Larry is an African American man who has worked at the cotton warehouse for at least a decade.
In the recording, the supervisor goes on to talk about the days of racial segregation. “Back then, nobody thought anything about it. Now everybody is made to where to think it’s bad,” says the supervisor in the recording.
Thirty seconds later in the same recording:
“Put your sign on the wall then, because I am fixing to drink it,” said Mr. Harris. “What would they do when they catch me drinking your water?”
“That’s when we hang you,” said the supervisor.