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Fired Black Employee Sues Paint Company Over Racist Paint Names
Daily Caller ^ | 06/28/2014 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 06/29/2014 9:13:20 AM PDT by Rusty0604

A black man in New Jersey has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, Benjamin Moore Paints, which he says named one of its paint colors after him and then fired him when he complained.

Clinton Tucker, who managed online sales for Benjamin Moore, which is owned by the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, said that he was bothered by the names of several of the company’s paint colors, “Clinton Brown,” “Tucker Chocolate,” and “Confederate Red.”

“Being a black man named Clinton Tucker, the plaintiff found this to be extremely racially offensive,” reads the complaint, filed in Essex County Court.

Tucker made other allegations, including that the company has a “toxic” work environment that is hostile to minorities.

Tucker, who identifies himself in the suit as homosexual, claims that since he started at the company in 2011, “it was clear…that he was not part of the traditional culture of the company.”

Approximately 10 of Benjamin Moore’s New Jersey headquarters’ employees were black and only one was homosexual, the suit claims.

On its website, Benjamin Moore describes “Tucker Chocolate” as “capturing the 1798 color requested by St. George Tucker for his home facing Courthouse Green, this deep brown is classic and understated.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: racism; racist; shakedown
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To: Oliviaforever

Fudge Tucker. yeah that’s it.


41 posted on 06/29/2014 9:47:56 AM PDT by glyptol
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To: Rusty0604

“lamp black” is a twofer.


42 posted on 06/29/2014 9:49:18 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: twister881

LOL, if I ever open up a paint company I want you as my marketing manager.


43 posted on 06/29/2014 9:49:27 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: glyptol

LOL


44 posted on 06/29/2014 9:50:05 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604
They didn’t have on called “Indian Red” did they?

I don't think so, but I watched his younger brother, Danny 'Little Red' Lopez punch the snot out of Yoshinobu Goto at the Olympic Auditorium in '72.

45 posted on 06/29/2014 9:51:32 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: Rusty0604

Reads like a Phil Hendrie episode.


46 posted on 06/29/2014 9:51:52 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Rusty0604

How did he know he was the only black homosexual? I know I never went around at work asking sexual preferences. Anyway is you have 10 blacks and one of them is gay that means 10% of the blacks employed are gay. That is above the national average. Did he imagine the company was providing a dating pool?


47 posted on 06/29/2014 9:53:38 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Starstruck

Yes, 7-10 times the national average.


48 posted on 06/29/2014 9:55:20 AM PDT by twister881
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To: Starstruck

“the company was providing a dating pool”

Isn’t that in the bill of rights?


49 posted on 06/29/2014 9:55:42 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Obviously looking for some “go away” money from the man.


50 posted on 06/29/2014 9:57:06 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Rusty0604
Isn’t that in the bill of rights?

Maybe. I never can remember the 9th.

51 posted on 06/29/2014 10:00:45 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: reg45

“Clinton” is another color entirely — creamy white over a blue undertone.


52 posted on 06/29/2014 10:01:19 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Crayon colors...great, now you'll get them all riled up again...


53 posted on 06/29/2014 10:02:41 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Rusty0604

WE actually have a constitutional right to offend others with words. And there is no right to not be offended.


54 posted on 06/29/2014 10:02:54 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Rusty0604
Approximately 10 of Benjamin Moore’s New Jersey headquarters’ employees were black and only one was homosexual, the suit claims.

I don't think a company should be able to force their employees to become homosexual just to meet political correctness quotas.

55 posted on 06/29/2014 10:15:53 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
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To: cuban leaf

When I was a kid I was taught that a great thing about this country was that you had the freedom to think and say what you wanted, unlike the communist and other countries.

No more, sadly.


56 posted on 06/29/2014 10:16:18 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: headstamp 2

I’m partial to flat black myself.


57 posted on 06/29/2014 10:20:19 AM PDT by eldoradude (How many democrats does it take to change a light bulb?)
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To: Rusty0604; GeronL

Next he plans to sue Crayola over the erroneously named “flesh” crayon. WHO’S skin is that color anyhow?


58 posted on 06/29/2014 10:25:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Rusty0604
I just painted my house “Creepy A$$ Cracker Pink”.But it was made by Behr.
59 posted on 06/29/2014 10:29:57 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: Rusty0604

60 posted on 06/29/2014 10:58:10 AM PDT by silent_jonny ("I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" -- Phillipians 4:13)
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