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A Black man has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against a hotel in Detroit, Michigan, alleging the hotel only offered him a job interview after he changed the name on his resume, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by CNN.

Dwight Jackson filed the lawsuit against the Shinola Hotel on July 3, alleging he was denied a job when he applied as “Dwight Jackson,” but later offered an interview when he changed his name to “John Jebrowski.”

The lawsuit alleges Jackson was denied a job in “violation of Michigan Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act.”

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 66 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The kicker is that my boss was actually hispanic himself!

In the UK we call that racist taxi driver syndrome. A lot of immigrants come to the UK and because it's a good money earner, or at least because they think it's a good money earner, they tend to buy a taxi.

Anyway you get in and suddenly they start telling you about all their world views, usually it's along the lines have there been too many immigrants. Even though they are an immigrant themselves.

Very much a case of shutting the door behind themselves.

[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

Haha so true. I remember some my friend's family going on about how we should all vote leave because of all the immigrants.

Mate, you were born in Napoli. You're as Italian as spaghetti. I'm not that kind of British person and, as far as I'm concerned, you're more than welcome here but you're the "immigrant" you hate so much. Not only that, your that being that person while banging on about how bad immigration is to a group of very obviously white native British people. It was just the most bizarre thing ever.

He still has an accent.

I genuinely wanted to be like "but we like you." I don't think that would have gone down very well though.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

I’ve spent too much of my life not speaking up at all. Then, I finally achieved speaking up by summoning anger and fear to motivate me. But my presentation is harsh and unfriendly.

My challenge now is to learn to disagree, when it needs to be done, but in a friendly and respectful way.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

I genuinely wanted to be like “but we like you.” I don’t think that would have gone down very well though.

Maybe you should have, I'm almost certain somebody did it later in another conversation. Better from a friend and so on.

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