Posted on 07/13/2004 2:38:32 PM PDT by Max Combined
Lockheed Martin Corp., the Bethesda-based defense contracting giant, permitted a racially hostile work environment for black employees "to grow in intensity" at its Meridian, Miss., plant until an employee shot 14 workers -- 12 of them black -- there last summer, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation has found.
The July 8, 2003, shootings by Lockheed worker Doug Williams left six of the victims dead, four of whom were black. Williams killed himself at the scene.
The determination was made in a private letter dated July 6 from the EEOC's Jackson, Miss., office.
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This ruling seems to be a stretch to me.
Well, the shooter's family doesn't have deep pockets, so the lawyers have to go after someone who does...
Ta da! Lockheed!
Add 1 cup of stupidity
1/2 cup of perceived injustice
A pinch of inadequacy (socially, sexually or otherwise)
Add 3 cups of dreaming up lame excuses for self-inflicted problems in life
Allow to simmer in hate for undetermined amount of time (can be from minutes to years)
Serve.
Definition of racism:
1950s: hating black people.
1960s: not doing enough to help black people.
1970s: not discriminating against white people.
1980s: not advocating leftist policies.
1990s to present: not giving money to Jesse Jackson.
I'm giving Lockheed the benefit of the doubt on this one. Even if that story about the KKK hood is true, they would have probably gotten in trouble if they had disciplined him for that. He would have claimed a "mental disability."
I dunno:
Means said workers at the plant had brought Williams's conduct to the company's attention, and Lockheed sent him to anger management classes. Among other things, Williams once wore a Ku Klux Klan hood to work, according to Means, and brought unconcealed weapons into the building the morning of the shooting.
It looks to me like the company tried to sweep it under the rug. "Anger Management" class? Puh-leez. If the guy was wearing KKK klothes to work then he should have been fired, not sent to a classroom to get in touch with his inner child.
Means is a lawyer out to make money. He would claim anything.
I'm not going to read the article, but as a former Lockheed employee I can state that the only racism I noted while working for that company was against white males.
It's funny how the responsible party is always the one with the deep pockets.
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