Bijur - after hearing the tapes - expressed "shock and anger."īy seizing on the racial slurs and suspending two executives, Bijur personified white America's easy outrage at overt racism, which was highlighted by a dip in Texaco's stock. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that Texaco had discriminated against African American employees "as a class throughout its facilities because of race," according to court documents.īut it was only last week that the chairman of Texaco, Peter I. In June, after a 14-month investigation, the U.S.
"Nigger," of course, refers to all of the above.Īnd yet as reprehensible as those words are, they amount to rhetorical fungi in a petrified national forest of racial discrimination. ("Porch monkey" is not to be confused with "tough monkey," which refers only to certain black basketball players.) "Porch monkey" is a subhuman step up and refers to a black employee who sits out front as window dressing to make a company appear to have more high-ranking blacks than it really does. That makes it easier, no doubt, to discount them. refer to African Americans, according to conversations that were secretly taped in 1994 and released last week.įor those who don't get it, the reference to "black jelly beans" is how white male executives mocked employee diversity while reducing blacks to inanimate objects. So that's how some top executives at Texaco Inc.
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