Lawsuit: Dude ranch owner asked chef for 'black people food'

[TexasTowelie]

RENO, Nev. -- Madeleine Pickens wanted the African-American chef she recruited from the country club she owns in Southern California to cook "black people food" - not "white people food" - at her rural Nevada dude ranch and wild horse sanctuary, according to a federal lawsuit accusing her of racial discrimination.

Armand Appling says the wealthy philanthropist and ex-wife of Oklahoma energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens told him fried chicken, BBQ ribs and corn bread would be perfect for the tourists who pay nearly $2,000 a night to stay in plush cottages, ride horses and take Wild West "safaris" on ATVs at her Mustang Monument Wild Horse Eco-Resort.

Appling alleges he was fired 2014 in retaliation for complaining about a hostile work environment. He says Pickens' stereotypical references were commonplace at the Elko County ranch stretching across 900 square miles on the edge of the Ruby Mountains about 50 miles west of the Utah line.

Among other things, he says Pickens, who is white, instructed him to terminate two other black kitchen staffers - one she referred to as her "bull" or "ox" and another who had "too much personality." He says she told him they didn't "look like people we have working at the country club" and didn't "fit the image" of the staff she wanted at the ranch.

Read more: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170102/news/301029984/

Cross-posted in the Nevada Group.

[MrScorpio]

1. Don't get me started.

FDT.

[heaven05]

2. how a people can stay so goddamn ignorant

for generations is beyond me, rich, poor and in between ...all the same...geez

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Allowing our weatlh, our resources to be

handed down generation to generation to greedy, ignorant assholes is the problem.

Proper inheritance tax law like 95% for everything over, oh I dont know, let's say $10 million, solves this problem.

Soon families like this will have all of the natural resources and wealth, very soon, if we dont do something about it and of course Trump will do the opposite.

I dont see a good outcome in this country for 40 years or more given the Supreme Court and other courts situation.

[heaven05]

4. I agree

wholeheartedly. I see NEVER recovering in that 40 year equation....never...this 'democracy' is finished. I experience, even as the sun goes down everyday, a sinking heart and feeling in my gut that is very uncomfortable as we move toward Jan 20. I will qualify my post and say PoC in this society/culture, in some areas especially, have had that feeling for generations. 'Strange Fruit' as sung by Billie Holiday on another post in this forum will become more prevalent in surrounding trees and fields of ameriKKKa, again. This is a total joy ride for the rich, powerful, hateful and racist people who will be able to stay above the fray they have created. Along with their ignorant and stupid minions who will be doing their bidding and who will continue believe the lies and to cheer the Supreme Court, aynryan, mcconnell, sessions, steve bannon when their draconian and repressive measures are put into place. This is not my country anymore.

[sheshe2]

5. Say what?!

Pickens' lawyers argue that even if all the allegations are true, none of her comments were racially motivated. At worst, Pickens' remarks "reflect a non-racial personality conflict and amount to discourtesy, rudeness or lack of sensitivity," they wrote in recent court filings.

JHC! What bullshit! Non-racial my ass.

[sheshe2]

6. That picture of her...

Oozes white privilege.