First read this post and its links to see what kind of racist games the Boston Citibank branches are playing, refusing to honor checks and threatening arrest for a holder in due course and his friends!Then read this story:
"White vice presidents and lower-level employes of Citibank sent racist jokes throughout the megabank's interoffice E-mail, according to a lawsuit filed by enraged black workers.
The E-mail [contains] a series of spoofs on the black speech patterns known as Ebonics started at the bank's Wall Street offices and wound up at offices around New York and as far south as Florida.
Citibank acknowledged that the E-mail incident occurred last month and that three employes and one former employee have been investigated. One of the three current workers is expected to be fired, said Citicorp spokesman Jack Morris."
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Ebonics this you racist pigs: We be 'bout to sue y'all motha'fuckin' Al Jolson asses.
At least Al Jolson actually fought racism.
White vice presidents and lower-level employes of Citibank sent racist jokes throughout the megabank's interoffice E-mail, according to a lawsuit filed by enraged black workers.
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Citibank acknowledged that the E-mail incident occurred last month and that three employes and one former employe have been investigated. One of the three current workers is expected to be fired, said Citicorp spokesman Jack Morris.
"We want an absolutely respectful and open work place," Morris said.
The E-mail is the same as that distributed at the financial house Morgan Stanley in October 1995. Black workers there have a civil rights claim pending against the 60-year-old Wall Street institution.
The jokes revolve around an 18-year-old ninth-grader named Leroy attempting to complete a homework assignment in racially stereotypical language. They were distributed in late January, shortly after the Morgan Stanley suit made national headlines and a few months after debate erupted over an Ebonics curriculum in Oakland, Calif.
In all, eight vice presidents, three assistant vice presidents and 10 lower-level workers sent or received the E-mail. Attorney Stephen Mitchell filed the suit Friday on behalf of Citibank employes Brenda Curtis, an administrative assistant, and Alvin Williamson, an assistant vice president, who work at the bank's 111 Wall St. office and were sent the E-mail by a white co-worker.
Two bank employes named by Curtis and Williamson, Vice President Susan Ravkin and Assistant Vice President Noel Murphy, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
PS: They won Williamson v. Citibank N.A., 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23047 but that's an employment case, very different than this.
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