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Black workers sue, claiming White racists run a General Mills plant in Georgia

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General Mills, the manufacturer of Cheerios and other well-known cereals, is being sued by eight Black employees working at a Georgia plant who say it’s rampant with racism under the control of its White managers.

In the federal lawsuit filed June 2, the employees accuse the managers at the Covington plant with favoring White employees for promotions over Black workers, issuing more disciplinary actions against Black employees and a manager calling them “colored,” a racist term.

The lawsuit points to two White managers who “formed an organization of white employees in management and human resources called the ‘Good Ole Boys’” favoring White workers over their Black counterparts and going back as far as the 1980s.

“The ‘Good Ole Boys’ believe that history and symbols that have been co-opted or misappropriated by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist hate groups are useful to keep Black people ‘in their place’ and discourage Black people from speaking or taking action against the disparate treatment of Black employees at the Covington facility,” according to the lawsuit.

In one example, a mural was displayed in the factory from 2005 to 2021 as a memorial for Confederate leaders using General Mills mascots, like the Cocoa Puffs cuckoo bird portraying the president of the confederacy, Jefferson Davis, and the Honey Nut Cheerios bee depicting General Stonewall Jackson, the lawsuit said.

In another instance, a Black employee said he found “KKK” etched into his lunchbox and the managers forced him to give a handwriting sample to prove it wasn’t him.

The Black employees said in the lawsuit that “egregious incidents of racism have gone ignored by local and corporate HR” for more than two decades and that the HR department would tell White supervisors about the complaints and reveal their names, resulting in retaliation.
 

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GOLF CHANNEL Cringe Interview On Course YOU'RE NOT VINCE YOUNG?​



It's not every day one gets to interview a football legend like Vince Young, so when a Golf Channel reporter saw her chance, she took it ... but there was just one problem -- it wasn't him!

The cringeworthy confusion all went down on Thursday at the BMW Charity Pro-Am in South Carolina ... when Lauren Withrow thought she had grabbed VY out on the course -- but instead, nabbed an assistant football coach.

Check out the video, she confidently spoke to him as if he were the former Univ. of Texas superstar quarterback ... and asked him about his golf game.

The man she was actually talking to, though, was Citadel assistant Everette Sands ... who tried like hell to get her out of the mess -- but Withrow continued to press onward nonetheless.

To his credit, Sands -- who was decked out in Citadel gear -- handled the situation as well as one could despite the awkwardness of it all ... answering her question well.

The interview mercifully ended after a few moments ... and later, Withrow addressed the situation on her Instagram and made it clear she was hoping to learn from her mistake going forward.


Withrow took the error in stride, writing on her Instagram Story, “Learn from the mistakes,” in a post featuring her mistakes from the day.

Withrow wrote Learn from the mistakes on her Instagram.


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