When it rains it pours at FOX News and legal disputes. Hey, maybe there was a time when I was never in NYC (ever) and Billy O threw his Starbucks at me from a massive distance, say 800 miles.. Maybe I can slap a lawsuit on him as well. Yes folks it’s sarcasm but ya gotta wonder when will it all stop, truth or not – PB/TK
Fox News Anchor Joins Lawsuit Against Network Alleging Racial Discrimination – By
Kelly Wright, a black reporter and anchor who has worked at Fox News since 2003 has joined a racial discrimination lawsuit against the channel claiming that he was “effectively sidelined” from major shows and asked to perform “the role of a ‘Jim Crow’ – the racist caricature of a Black entertainer” for whom the American segregation laws were named.
The class-action lawsuit, filed Tuesday in State Supreme Court in the Bronx, expands on a complaint filed last month by two black women, Tichaona Brown and Tabrese Wright, a former payroll manager and current accounting employee at Fox News, respectively. In total, 11 plaintiffs—all people of color—have their names attached to the updated complaint, which accuses the network of “abhorrent, intolerable,unlawful and hostile racial discrimination.”
The complaint includes allegations against Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, who parted ways with the network on April 19 after a series of sexual harassment accusations, which he denies. According to the complaint, O’Reilly refused to air one of Kelly Wright’s segments because it presented black Americans in “too positive” a light.
Continue to newsweek.com article: http://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-sexual-harassment-racial-discrimination-lawsuit-589846
