-Working- at a hotel while black

A former executive for Marriott Hotels has filed a lawsuit, claiming a racially hostile work environment that the company was informed about but never fixed.

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Plaintiff Daryl Robinson says he resigned from the company because he could no longer tolerate the working conditions. His Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges racial discrimination, failure to prevent racial discrimination and retaliation. Although promised by Marriott that he would have his own cubicle after training, he was instead assigned to a cramped storage closet with no air conditioning, the suit states. Co-workers wondered aloud if he was put there because he is black, the suit states. During sales meetings, Robinson was told by his director of sales to dance when music was being played, often to the tunes of Michael Jackson songs, the suit states. Management began a team-building exercise by requiring employees to bring in photos of themselves as babies to see if their colleagues could guess who they were, the suit states. Robinson explained that his mother, who lived out of state, had the only photos of him at that age, the suit states. Robinson also said that it would be pointless for him to participate in the exercise because he was the only black person in the office, the suit states. When Robinson's sales manager heard his explanation, she balked and said she would pick a photo for him and showed him a depiction on her computer of the Buckwheat character from the "Our Gang" series, the suit states. Robinson was "shocked and in disbelief" when he saw the Buckwheat photo given that it has long been used to portray blacks in a "stereotypical racist manner," the suit states. But the sales manager used the photo during a subsequent morning meeting anyway, asking the employees, "Who do you guys think this is?," the suit states. Robinson walked out of the meeting and later told his two supervisors that he had to leave because the display of the Buckwheat photo was "devastating," according to the suit.

I have personally witnessed numbers of white people profess to know full well that the Our Gang "Buckwheat" character depiction is as racist as it gets but don't care because they think it's hilarious anyway, so I'm sad to say that portion of the executive's claim is not shocking to me in the least.

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