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        1. California state agency files lawsuit alleging a devastating and systematic pattern of anti-Black racial discrimination and segregation at Tesla's Fremont auto factory. #Tesla #racism arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/tesla-factory-is-racially-segregated-workplace-calif-state-agency-alleges/
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        Basic structure of the plant has essentially no Blacks in supervision, leadership though they make up one gift of the workforce.
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      Allegedly, managers at all levels routinely describe Black workers with racial epithets, and a variety of forms of racist symbols are scattered through the workplace.
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    More fundamentally, the hierarchy of work and the distribution of space is highly racialized, with Black workers and the sections they work in coded as menial laborers.
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      This, the complaint lays out, means that employees, their positions and performance are spoken of in Crude racist language, naming Blacks as animals and slaves, and evoking the plantation and slave ship as metaphors.
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        A plaintiff reports hearing racial slurs 50-100 times per day.
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          Tesla and this plant are new institutions in a state that knew slavery of Indians but almost African Americans. Therefore, this is not a cultural hangover but the deliberate cultivation of dark prejudices to divide and rule a work force.
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            Given that a jury awarded a contract worker a stunning $130 million judgment on this issue, the fact pattern here has already been validated.