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.
It's okay to note that violent crimes are committed by a race out of proportion to their numbers. It's okay to point out racist organizations by name.
I don't have a problem with that. When you discuss the problems within this country, it's okay to also sort the numbers according to race because race still matters to the members of that race. Some problems are there simply because race matters to those people. We can't ignore that.
But that doesn't excuse in the least the actual overt acts of racisim simply because one spots or has to deal with another of a different race.