We have no idea about the merits of this suit. But here's the press release from the representatives of the plaintiff.
Adding to the long list of woes facing banking giant BOA, Jack Mitchell, an African-American former employee of BOA, through his lawyers at Ziegler, Ziegler & Associates LLP, has brought a lawsuit accusing BOA of engaging in systematic discrimination against its African-American employees.
In the complaint, filed in New York State Supreme Court, Bronx County, Mitchell alleges that BOA operated on the belief that its high net worth individual clients, who were primarily white, would not wish to interact with its African-American employees. The suit alleges that in order to prevent interaction between its African-American employees and white clients, BOA grouped its African-American employees into business development groups consisting almost exclusively of other African-American employees, groups it then systematically assigned to work in predominantly low-income, minority communities such as the South Bronx and Harlem.
The claims have been brought by Jack Mitchell, who was hired by BOA in February 2007 as a Premier Client Manager ("PCM"). As a PCM, Mr. Mitchell worked within BOA's premier banking and investment division in order to develop business relationships with existing and potential BOA clients classified as high net worth individuals. The lawsuit alleges that BOA's African-American PCMs were set up for failure and marginalized by BOA under a system in which BOA kept its African-American PCMs, such as Mr. Mitchell, separate from its primarily white client base of high net worth individuals, a system of separation akin to institutionalized apartheid.
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Source: Business Insider
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Why complain? Churches are the most segregated buildings there are.