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TexasTowelie

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Fri Jan 12, 2018, 08:20 AM Jan 2018

Chicago Water Management workers insist racist culture outlined in emails hasn't changed

A black woman who was told she wouldn’t get a promotion because she “wouldn’t go under the desk.”

African-American men who were denied promotions and overtime and denounced on a daily basis as the N-word with profanity attached.

Blacks of both sexes who dared to complain about discrimination, only to be punished with trumped-up charges based on hearsay.

Water Management Commissioner Randy Conner, who is African-American, has claimed to have “changed the culture” of the department at the center of a racist, sexist and homophobic email scandal, but his employees told a different story at a City Council hearing Wednesday.

Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/water-management-workers-claim-racist-culture-outlined-in-emails-hasnt-changed/

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