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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When Iw as a kid I was taught that a great thing about this country was our media. It was unbiased and not controlled by our government.
A nice tannish color: Southern Honkey White!
Pole Smoker Pink
How should we respond to OFF White
Leni
Well at least we Jews have a fish named after us.
How about “KehoeOffWhite?”
Or “IrishKehoeGreen?”
I truly don’t know if we can survive this madness.
5.56mm
Not everybody is all there, but it could be insulting to those with mental deficiencies.
He must have been a really, really lousy employee because, when they made the decision to fire him, they probably already knew that he’d sue them for it and still they went ahead and did it.
Anyway, I bet it’s a pretty common practice to hang onto loser employees just to avoid legal problems with them. And that companies do what was done here, move the employee around and don’t promote him, and hope that he gets the message that he ain’t wanted and leaves of his own volition.
Flesh was renamed ‘peach’...
Confederate Red is racist?
Everything is racists.
Tootie Frootie Yellow...and Tootie Frootie Pink....very likely
There was an interview of FOX yesterday of a little girl that solved the crime of a babysitter setting up a robbery. The babysitter had said two black men did the robbery but the little girl on FOX said they were “peach”.
I thought that was odd but now I know.
How does he know he was the ONLY Homosexual? Quite an assumption if you ask me. Sounds a bit like Profiling.
Do they wear “I’m a Homo” Badges or did the Boss Tattoo it on his Forehead?
Yes...everything is...
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