Rascism has a price (this time, it's $185, 000)

Earle Nevins, a  Blackfeet tribal member, was getting racist harrassment from coworkers.  All too often, this sort of thing is written off as horseplay and swept under the rug.  Not this time, though!  Justice tastes better then even oreo klondike bars.  Though that $185, 000 tastes damn good too, I bet.

I hope the rascist former coworkers enjoy the senstvity training.  

from the Daily InterLake:

Les
Schwab Tire Center will pay a Columbia Falls man $185,000 and put
corrective measures in place to settle a racial harassment lawsuit
involving the tire company’s Evergreen store.

The U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission took the unusual step two years ago
of suing Les Schwab for allowing racial harassment against Earle
Nevins, an American Indian who was employed at Les Schwab’s Evergreen
tire center.

The commission charged that Les Schwab refused to
stop Nevins’ co-workers from calling him derogatory names and making
insulting jokes about American Indians.

 

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