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A Former Security Company Manager Files a Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

A former manager at a North Carolina-based security company says in a lawsuit that she was fired because of her race and for raising concerns about what she said was a culture of racism.

The 18-page lawsuit was filed last week in Superior Court in Mecklenburg County, and names CPI Security Systems and CEO Kenneth Gill as defendants, The Charlotte Observer reported. It details what former call center director Kelley Phelps said is a “deep-seated culture of racism” at the company that eventually led to her retaliatory firing in August 2020 after 20 years with the company.

Phelps was told not to hire people with dreadlocks, and that Gill told a tanned employee “if you get any darker, we’ll have to seat you at the back of the bus,” the lawsuit said.

Read the source article at Associated Press News

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