Black McDonald’s Executive Files Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

As McDonald’s vice president of global safety, security, and intelligence, Michael Peaster was responsible for overseeing the personal security of CEO Chris Kempczinski.

Yet according to a racial-discrimination lawsuit that Peaster filed this month, the CEO ignored the 35-year McDonald’s veteran for the better part of a year.

McDonald’s said it fired Peaster last month for performing his job poorly. But in the lawsuit, the Black executive said he was let go as part of a monthslong effort to oust him after he criticized Kempczinski in a 2021 town-hall meeting. The meeting was held to discuss Kempczinski’s controversial 2021 text, in which he blamed the parents of two children who were fatally shot. He was widely criticized for the text message. 

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