Suing over nooses

(RT) ⸻ ExxonMobil allowed harassment of its black employees at a facility in Louisiana to continue by failing to properly investigate several incidents in which a hangman's noose was displayed there, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has alleged. The EEOC said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday that there were five such incidents at the Baton Rouge complex, which includes a refinery and a chemical plant, and that the company failed to probe some of them and did not act to stop the harassment. The characterization of the incidents as racist is based on nooses being a reference to the history of the lynching of black people in the US. Exxon denied the allegations, saying they encourage employees to report claims like this and that they thoroughly investigated. There have been a number of reported noose incidents in the US in the last several years, including one involving Nascar's only black driver, Bubba Wallace. The FBI concluded that there was no hate crime, confirming that the knotted rope was used as a door pull long before Wallace's crew arrived at the venue.