Posted on 06/29/2014 9:13:20 AM PDT by Rusty0604
A black man in New Jersey has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, Benjamin Moore Paints, which he says named one of its paint colors after him and then fired him when he complained.
Clinton Tucker, who managed online sales for Benjamin Moore, which is owned by the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, said that he was bothered by the names of several of the company’s paint colors, “Clinton Brown,” “Tucker Chocolate,” and “Confederate Red.”
“Being a black man named Clinton Tucker, the plaintiff found this to be extremely racially offensive,” reads the complaint, filed in Essex County Court.
Tucker made other allegations, including that the company has a “toxic” work environment that is hostile to minorities.
Tucker, who identifies himself in the suit as homosexual, claims that since he started at the company in 2011, “it was clear…that he was not part of the traditional culture of the company.”
Approximately 10 of Benjamin Moore’s New Jersey headquarters’ employees were black and only one was homosexual, the suit claims.
On its website, Benjamin Moore describes “Tucker Chocolate” as “capturing the 1798 color requested by St. George Tucker for his home facing Courthouse Green, this deep brown is classic and understated.”
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I’d be honored to have the color of paint with my name.
Hydrazine White!
Jack Peach!
just throw out All Imagination and just number everything ,insane
Since Clinton Tucker is both black and a homosexual, he has two big chances at a big settlement.
Twilight Zone theme song.
How many vaginas were employed there? We need to know for equality's sake. Screw qualifications.
Cracker white albaby
And he’s not offended by the name - Clinton.
ONLY ONE WAS HOMOSEXUAL!?!??!
Call the FBI!!!!
Approximately 10 of Benjamin Moore’s New Jersey headquarters’ employees were black and only one was homosexual, the suit claims.
EXCUSE ME...where does the homosexual COMPLAINT fit in here???
maybe it was Clinton Tucker..??
I remember “Flesh Tone” from my coloring book days.
Was the paint named before the sensitive Mr. Tucker had his unfortunate bout with employment?
Back when I was a kid working at the school during the summer we used Congo Brown for a lot of things.
http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/clintonbrown
A childhood favorite treat matures into adult style chic in this perfectly balanced chocolate candy bar brown. Delicious with no added fat or calorie
So does the plaintiff have no added fat or calorie and is he delicious?
EXCUSE ME...where does the homosexual COMPLAINT fit in here???
Maybe there are Fruit Colors
Sounds like this guy was the creator of a toxic environment.
Obam grey, half black half white, all muslim.
Remember, checkerboard is half black half white
and it’s the favorite of the “Illuminati”!!!
Or so I learned from “Shelly’s deviled eggs”.
Flesh tone crayons must be bigoted nowadays. After all, it hurts the self esteem of those who have a different skin tone.
There are so many things we are supposed to be politically correct about nowadays, even paint or crayon colors. Sheesh. This society is going to collapse from within, with our paying so much unwarranted attention to such trivia.
Exactly.
I do too.
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