While I can understand why many businesses choose to settle rather than go through long, drawn-out court sessions, I would rather see them fight than give in to these Jesse Jackson type tactics.
These people had no proof as to who was responsible -- and it could easily have been any of the black plaintiffs with grand hopes for a fat check!! Blacks haven't supported Jesse Jackson all these years without learning something of his strong-arm tactics!!
Why is it that blacks don't realize that their constant, unsubstantiated claims of racism only further divide our country?
Not to mention reparations ... well, enough of a rant already, so I'll address that farce another day.
I was one of those plaintiffs in this lawsuit. Just so you know, i didn't sue because of words. My life was threaten. White employees, proclaiming to be members of the KKK threatened to kill black employees, when no on was around. Do you actually believe it's okay to work under those conditions? The "graffiti" were not just in general - they were "warnings" directed at specific black employees at what would be done to them, be KKK members at the company when they were caught alone. And, through all of these threats of violence, the management did nothing about it, by continually saying it wasn't a problem.
Your comments about this case represent the problem. People, black and white, are so quick to form an opinion without the facts, or someone is so amped on getting people to agree with them, that they fabricate a story for support. Oh, by the way. What the president of the compnay fails to express in his response is, the racial "issues" were going on as far back as 1990 - long before ANY lawsuit was filed, or any of the plaintiffs started working there. Additionally, these incidents continued months after the plaintiffs had left the job - so, how could it have been the plaintiffs? In conclusion, the issues continued until the FBI was involved and cameras were installed.
White or black, racism sucks. I'm a black male, and most of me friends are white. I love white people just like I love black people and it's people like you - people who look at ONLY ONE SIDE of an issue that CREATE problems like this.