white employer puts NOOSE around Black man's Neck

[lizaa]

Black worker says boss put noose on him
By PAGE IVEY

Black worker says boss put noose on him









COLUMBIA, S.C.

A black former hotel worker who claims his white supervisor put a noose around his neck at an event on one of the country's oldest plantations said Friday he was fired when he complained about it.

John Green, 62, said he was scared and embarrassed by his boss's actions at the Charleston Place Hotel function at Boone Hall Plantation in October.

Green and his attorney, Ed Brown, said a complaint was filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's office in Savannah, Ga. However, Mason Barrett, director of that office, said Friday he would not confirm whether his office had received a complaint.

The hotel's general manager said in a statement he had not seen a complaint from the commission and that Green was fired for violating company rules. Those rules were not specified.

Green, a former event supervisor at the hotel, said his boss laughed about the incident and "he thought it was funny."

"He was actually showing another guy from another country how to make a hangman's noose," Green said. "He sneaked up from behind me and slipped the noose over my neck and began tightening the noose."

Green said he was fired about a month later when he complained to hotel managers.

He said he recorded a meeting with hotel managers after he was fired, and when he told them about the recording, Green's boss was fired.

Pippa Isbell, vice president of corporate communications for Orient-Express Hotels, which owns Charleston Place, confirmed that the supervisor was fired "as a direct result of the incident with the noose."

Hotel general manager Paul Stracey said in a statement the company has a strong policy against discrimination.

"When any employee or former employee makes a complaint claiming unlawful discrimination, that complaint is thoroughly investigated and appropriate action is taken based upon the results of that investigation," Stracey said.

Green said he hasn't been able to find another job since being fired. He worked at the hotel about 10 years, he said. Before that, he owned a seafood market on Johns Island near Charleston.

Boone Hall Plantation offers guided tours of what life was like in the 1800s and is the site of wedding receptions and other events. It is about 10 miles from Charleston.

[Mattylock]

Now this one's got me fuming. I can't even think straight.

[lizaa]

I have an uncle that lives there and the situation between blacks whites and asians -it's ~~~~unspeakable.

They are trying to bring slavery back people

[Mattylock]

That's a shame. The Carolinas are very beautiful. What an ugly reality.

[Sumyr]

Where is our very own NAACP on this; are they even prevalent today in coming to our aid/defense anymore???

[SistahSpeak]

Originally Posted by Mattylock

Now this one's got me fuming. I can't even think straight.

I feel you completely, sis. But this is what they aim for... we have no time for emotions and confusion. unfortunately. And not to be abrupt. We must immediately transition from emotion to practicality. Confusion to clarity.

It's real. Now where do we stand and what direction do we move in?

Feel me?

Originally Posted by lizaa

They are trying to bring slavery back people

slavery, my dear sistah, has never left the afrikan captive in amerikkka. No matter how many jobs they "give" us... how many homes we can "afford" to buy, and how many tokens "make it"... Oprah, Obama, athletes, a few CEO's, etc.

We are still slaves - only this time to a ghostwriter slave master.

Originally Posted by Sumyr

Where is our very own NAACP on this; are they even prevalent today in coming to our aid/defense anymore???

The NAACP, in my opinion, is just a group of "good" negroes allowed/permitted by the powers that be to "act" as if they are speaking out for the masses of black and brown people.

All the real revolutionary Afrikans in amerikkka, who honestly and ernestly speak out on behalf of their people, are killed off or stifled because they do not work for the system.

If I can stand on a soapbox, say a few words that make the news, satisfy a few negroes, and not effectively change the euro-gentiles system, I am working for them, not us, and will be patronized by the euro-gentile. Think Sharpton, Jackson, and other negroes tap-dancing for this system, not fighting for their people.

"Truth is verifiable"

[mlr710]

Originally Posted by Sumyr

Where is our very own NAACP on this; are they even prevalent today in coming to our aid/defense anymore???

The NAACP has been shutting down so many offices and losing active members that its just a shell of what it was 30 years ago. Just like most of our organizations and institutions, we don't move with the times in terms of technology and approach.

[ardamus]

Seems to me they're getting fascinated with just showing us nooses and trying to get us to wear them. I guess they think its funny to give us reminder of what our people went through before us.

[The Dragon]

We got to choose our battles.
I'm sick of hearing silly ish like this.
Instead of reading about how someones employer put a noose around his neck, it should have read "Black man beats the crap outta of employer after employer TRIED to put a noose around his neck."
Is this brotha handicaped and helpless or something because if a mothafo tried to put a noose around my neck, yall would be reading about how I was trying to get a good lawyer to rep me in my attempted murder trial.

Good grief!

We have rogue cops still working the streets and even getting promotions after shooting down an innocent Black child like a dog and here we are fuming because some punk arse idiot lets his employer put a noose about his neck...

Lawd have mercy!! Wake up!!!!!

[SistahSpeak]

Originally Posted by mlr710

The NAACP has been shutting down so many offices and losing active members that its just a shell of what it was 30 years ago. Just like most of our organizations and institutions, we don't move with the times in terms of technology and approach.

Yea, I agree that some of our organizations don't move with the times in terms of technology and reach, however, for some reason my Spirit doesn't feel like this is the case for the NAACP.

I think the NAACP was developed and tolerated because it pacified the people. We had Afrikans in amerikkka pissed off, fighting for change, and this was a "good negro" organization approved to exist. Why the NAACP and not other organizations that wasn't so soft?? COINTELPRO busted those joints up with the quickness. The NAACP spoke up in situations and the adversary allowed certain things to be said and battles won for the sake of giving the Afrikan hope that the NAACP was for us and by us.

The reality is is that it is not.

So what's the difference now? The voluminous voice of the afrkan in amerikkka has dissipated. You have a few Afrikans as pissed as our ancestors were. So the NAACP pacifier is no longer required. Most of us are sleep, complacent, or just too distracted by the day-to-day to lend the energy like our ancestors did.

just my opinion on the naacp piece.