The workplace is no place for Black face, Black apes, or Black hate.
According to reports in a recent Penn Live article, a Black former employee of UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 30-year-old Caleb Ferguson, has filed a lawsuit against the facility claiming that the administration took no action after he reported that a white coworker named Eileen Keenan had made a monkey doll and named it after him.
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Don’t get it twisted either, Caleb wasn’t some slack employee who was the last to arrive and the first to leave. In fact, he was so good at his job that he was given a raise in early 2023 after being hired at the hospital in December 2022.
On that date, Ferguson’s suit said a co-worker name Eileen Keenan, described as an older white woman, was asked about a doll she was making and replied that it was a monkey. “She then held up the unfinished work and said, ‘Look, it’s Caleb,’” states the suit.
B-b-b-but wait, it gets worse!
A week later, Keenan said in front of co-workers that she had finished the doll, held it up and said, “Everyone, meet Caleb.” Ferguson was “horrified, extremely upset and shocked,” according to the lawsuit.
After “vehemently” complaining to his supervisor Joseph Ulridch, Ferguson still got no recourse and Keenan had still not be reprimanded in any way according to the suit.
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Dirty game. We hope brotha Ferguson shakes every red cent of this hospital.
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