
Fox News is facing a lawsuit from a former technician who alleges that while at the network, he faced "daily abuse, fear and humiliation" from other employees because of his race, and when he eventually complained, he was fired.
One instance occurred during the 2008 presidential campaign. According to the complaint filed by Harmeen Jones, 32, who is African-American, two of his coworkers said in front of him that they wouldn't feel comfortable having a black president. Jones alleges that one of the men looked at him, saw he was uncomfortable and said, "[A]m I offending your blackness?"
Another example came during the health care debate, when he and his co-workers were working in the "intake room" with screens showing footage from a tea party rally. "[T]his is what happens when you mess with white people's health care," one of the men allegedly told Jones.
Jones filed the complaint in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, naming Fox News and seven of his former colleagues as defendants. He is seeking $5 million in damages.
The complaint alleges that several of the defendants "continually made racist, sexist, and extremely offensive comments throughout the course of every working day. These comments concerned African-Americans, Arabs, Muslims, Hispanics, women, and Jews." Jones also claims he was often told "you look like a gangster" or "like you're ready to shoot someone."
Jones finally did speak to the head of Human Resources, who set up a meeting with him and several of the defendants on Sept. 24, 2009. On Oct. 2, Jones was fired.
Mark Taylor, the attorney handling Jones's case, told The Huffington Post, "Eventually he did complain to management because things were getting out of hand, and what particularly makes it a very strong legal case is that they fired him almost immediately thereafter." The complaint charges that the firing was retaliation for complaining about the discrimination.
Source: Huffington Post

Source: Huffington Post

Kevin Eason is a freelance editorial cartoonist and Illustrator from New Jersey. His brand of satire covers news events in politics, entertainment, sports and much more. Follow him on Facebook.


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By: edujustice2005 on 10/22/2010 10:14PM
edujustice2005 aka Benton: Mr. Jones should went is with a baseball bat and start hitting heads until he got to the head individual in-charge and kicked his @$$ and then beat his head! Foxnews is a racist news and I don't and never will listen to them! They are racist ppl and all they want is to talk about Blacks. The head individual is the leader of it all, for if he wasn't he would not allow in. That's the reason they fired Mr. Jones, b/c they could not talk about Blacks like they wanted to. I take my hat off to Mr. Jones, b/c it all will come out at trial. STAND YOUR GROUND MR> JONES!
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By: Judy on 10/23/2010 7:04AM
Sounds like someone is trying to play the race card to cover their own tracks. Again.
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By: levelsone on 10/23/2010 11:22AM
Is it called a race card when whites are subjected to racism at work? No it isn't. So don't go there. Racism is a form of mental illness and the workplace is no place for it to play out. It is a bad use of workplace resources, morale and wallet. Racism is also a form of workplace violence.
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By: James Ward on 10/24/2010 10:45PM
BV runs a "racist" cartoon of Jaun Williams..why am I NOT surprised? I wonder why I haven't seen racist cartoons of everyone's favorite Reverends (Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton), the NAACP or of black Democratic congressmen on Black Voices? And if they did print any, who bets me that the article would CONDEMN the cartoonist and the organizations that gave the person a platform???
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By: Ignorance is Bliss on 10/23/2010 5:58PM
BillW and Judy:
You two should be quite familiar with 'playing the race card' for ignoramuses like you have been doing it with impunity since you learned you were a privileged group, and you have the nerve to wear smiles on your faces while perpetuating it. Smiles that I liken to a rattlesnake before it bites. People like you have no shame or decency. There are many layers of hell, you won't be smiling once you're in one. And Judy, are you suggesting that this man was justifiably fired for incompetence--isn't that what most white folks like you hide behind when you terminate someone of color or a white person that does not behave like you want them to? Isn't it? Ignorance is Truly Bliss with some of you people.
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By: s walker on 10/23/2010 6:37PM
I observe these uncle's ither working for fox news or participating in the evening discussions on a regular basis.Ranting on and on about President Obama or other so called unproductive or free loading blacks. The highlight of the debate is to observe the faces of these bigoted racist such as Glen Beck, Bill O' reilly etc, by the expression on their face. They find it hard to believe a black person, Knowing the history of racism and blacks ,Would stoop to such a level .This could only make them hate these people evem more...
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By: Black and Proud on 10/23/2010 8:36PM
Fox Noose it in Biggggggg trubbbbbbbbo......Sue their azzes off. Enough is Enough,. We are taking the country we built back.........Time to wave your WHITE flag.....
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By: peni4yothot on 10/23/2010 10:40PM
I could do nothing except laugh at your comment.No point in asking if you are serious.
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By: Watcher Watchmen on 10/23/2010 10:58PM
** PSYCHOTICALLY RACIST XENOPHOBES **
What’s the grand stupidity of all this? Let’s see!
The work environment isn’t located in the back room of a vacant apartment in the worst housing projects, nor located in the Deep South off-road inside a dilapidated trailer at the back end of a trailer park.
NO!
The work environment is located in a professional facility that houses state of the arts equipments, being operated by ‘educated professionals’ that were prescreened by personal for applicable qualifications before hire.
Any black person interviewed and then acquire employment, was by far not stereotypical, else they would not have gotten past personnel.
While out on the work floor of this presumed “Professional, Educated and Intellectually Mature” environment, that said Academically Fortunate Black Professional Employees are yet still being subjected to racist remarks, innuendoes and/or puns, jokes and more, from whites with the intent to use said Black Professional Employees as ‘PORTALS’ to get at (or vent at) those select less Advantaged Blacks, is where PSYCHOTICALLY RACIST STUPIDITY begins to surface.
Through Psychotically Racist Stupidity, those whites failed to realize that if the black co-workers (they’ve targeted) were really liken to the blacks they’re being racially stereotyped as, then they would have never personally known of them, because they would have not have been employed.
It’s these and other similar facts alone, that testifies the unwitted stupidity demonstrated from the those white co-workers who resorts to their racist white paradigm of blacks, in the face of blacks, whose mere presence, in and of itself, is clear self evidence of themselves being the complete opposite of such racist stereotypes they’re being subjected to, within an environment that they’ve otherwise measured to be Higher-UP on the food chain.
Such experiences is quite a reality shock for those blacks who’ve fought through years of their various academics to rise above and/or get ahead in life, (as apposed to the so-called stereotypical blacks who are lazy, on drugs, crimes, welfare and more that these whites rant about.), but for those Academically Advantaged Blacks who finally achieved success for their hard work, are then subjected to forms of racisms that was assumed nonexistent at that they believed was the next tier UP in society.
Ironically, these blacks are often bewildered of such psychotically racist nonsense to come from the very group of whites they otherwise thought were more upper classed and/or more socially advanced. For many blacks, the experience is very disappointing and somewhat of a letdown to what they’ve otherwise expected to experience at the end of their academic journey.
Many Blacks may then fall back to regroup on what form of “Survival Mode” or “Niche for acceptance” they must now fall on, to adjust to their fundamentally white racist surroundings;
>1 sell-OUT to sell-IN.
>2 hunker into a privet shell.
>3 become everyone’s “GO-FOR”
>4 laugh at all jokes told, no matter how corny or worn out.
>5 Be their silent corner punching bag for everything THEY want to throw (get off THEIR chests) at ALL Blacks “Through You!”
And the list goes on….
What’s even more amazing is that those groups of whites haven’t the slightest clue to the social damages caused by their own actions.
Pathetic!
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