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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Fudge Tucker. yeah that’s it.
“lamp black” is a twofer.
LOL, if I ever open up a paint company I want you as my marketing manager.
LOL
I don't think so, but I watched his younger brother, Danny 'Little Red' Lopez punch the snot out of Yoshinobu Goto at the Olympic Auditorium in '72.
Reads like a Phil Hendrie episode.
How did he know he was the only black homosexual? I know I never went around at work asking sexual preferences. Anyway is you have 10 blacks and one of them is gay that means 10% of the blacks employed are gay. That is above the national average. Did he imagine the company was providing a dating pool?
Yes, 7-10 times the national average.
“the company was providing a dating pool”
Isn’t that in the bill of rights?
Obviously looking for some “go away” money from the man.
Maybe. I never can remember the 9th.
“Clinton” is another color entirely — creamy white over a blue undertone.
WE actually have a constitutional right to offend others with words. And there is no right to not be offended.
I don't think a company should be able to force their employees to become homosexual just to meet political correctness quotas.
When I was a kid I was taught that a great thing about this country was that you had the freedom to think and say what you wanted, unlike the communist and other countries.
No more, sadly.
I’m partial to flat black myself.
Next he plans to sue Crayola over the erroneously named “flesh” crayon. WHO’S skin is that color anyhow?
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