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Article: Clerk at Los Gatos clinic alleges racial code words: SAYS SHE WAS FIRED AFTER COMPLAINING.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2006
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Byline: Barbara Feder Ostrov
Aug. 10--It wasn't about what the supervisor said. It was about what she said backward. In one of the first cases of its kind, the federal government has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against a Los Gatos medical clinic, alleging that a white supervisor used racial code words to intimidate an African-American file clerk. One of the code words, according to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint filed Wednesday in San Francisco federal court, was "reggin," the infamous racial slur spelled backward. The clerk, 29-year-old Tomeika L. Broussard, was fired in early 2004 after she complained to her ...