Black worker awarded $25 million in racial lawsuit

Being subjected to juvenile name calling can be big business.

A black steelworker has been awarded $25 million in damages after a federal jury ruled his former company didn’t do enough to stop years of racial slurs and taunting by his co-workers.

According to the Buffalo News, Elijah Turley testified during the trial that colleagues at the Buffalo-area plant called him “boy” and left a stuffed monkey with a noose around its neck on his car’s driver’s side mirror. He also recalled seeing “KKK” and “King Kong” scrawled on the factory’s walls.

“It’s absolutely shocking that a case like this is in court in 2012,” Ryan J. Mills, Turley’s lawyer, said in closing arguments. “It should be viewed as atrocious and intolerable in a civilized society.”

Lawyers for ArcelorMittal countered that company officials suspended Turley’s co-workers and took other steps to stop the harassment. The newspaper reported they also suggested that a lot of what Turley endured was “trash-talking” that’s common on factory floors.

But the jury unanimously decided that the company and some of its executives were liable.

“This case is about the breakdown of a man,” Mills told the jury. “He wanted to be treated equally, treated equally in a culture that hadn’t changed since the ’50s.”

This guy has GOT to be laughing all the way to the bank.

We are living in the era of race hoaxes, plenty of which have been documented by our radio show, so one should take these “facts” with a grain of salt.

However, let’s suppose that the facts are correct and this Black worker really was called “boy.”

He gets $25 million for that?

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not condoning annoying antics and perhaps those involved should have been punished. But $25 million? Really?

The lawyer for the plaintiff said that the pranks, “Should be viewed as atrocious and intolerable in a civilized society.”

If this is an example of “atrocious” and “intolerable” actions, what does that make racially motivated Black-on-White murders like we saw in the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom case?

Sounds like someone needs to get their pecking order straightened out.

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