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Accusations of sexual harassment are only the tip of the discriminatory
iceberg at Fox News.
A pair of women are suing the cable news network, saying they were subjected
to “top-down racial harassment” in the company’s payroll department,
according to a new lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Bronx.
Tichaona Brown, a payroll manager, and Tabrese Wright, a payroll coordinator
, are suing Judith Slater, the company’s longtime comptroller, Fox News,
and its parent company, 21st Century Fox.
The women, who are both African-American, claim Slater’s racist behavior
created a hostile work environment that resulted in “severe and pervasive
discrimination and harassment.”
The women say Slater, who was fired from Fox last week, made a laundry list
of racially charged comments, including asking Brown if her three children
were all “fathered by the same man.”
According to the suit, Slater:
Ridiculed black employees by mocking stereotyped speech and complained,
for example, that black employees mispronounce the words “mother,” “
father,” “month” and “ask,” by pronouncing the words as “muva,” “
fava,” “monf,” and “axe.”
Openly claimed that the “Black Lives Matter” movement is extremely
racist and wondered what would happen if there was a parallel “White Lives
Matter” movement.
Regularly talked about her fear that black people want to physically
harm white people.
Told employees that she does not travel north of 90th Street in
Manhattan because she is afraid she will be “jumped” or “beat up.”
Blatantly mocked the “Black Lives Matter” movement. After the August
2014 shooting of Mike Brown, and the onset of the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”
slogan, when Ms. Brown would stop by Slater’s office to say goodbye at the
end of the day, Slater responded by raising her hands up in the “Hands Up,
Don’t Shoot” movement.
Regularly called her commuter train to New Jersey the “Bombay Express,
” due to the number of people of Indian descent who live in New Jersey.
Openly talked about her belief that all Chinese men have “small penises
.”
Called day laborers “cheap Mexicans.”
Due to the number of employees of color in the payroll department,
Slater regularly called the payroll department, the “southern payroll
department” and the “urban payroll department.”
Asked Ms. Brown and Ms. Wright to teach her how to “beat box.”
Fox News Channel is currently the target of a federal probe into
allegedly concealing big-bucks payments the company made to several women to
quietly settle sexual harassment claims against former chairman Roger Ailes.
An internal investigation at Fox last summer revealed that Ailes is
believed to have sexually harassed many employees or potential employees
over many years.
Wright spoke up about her ordeal following Ailes’ departure from the
company last summer.
She was transferred out of the payroll department on Monday. |
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