Racist Actions Cost Tesla $137m

A jury in California ordered Tesla to pay a Black former employee $137 million in damages for turning a blind eye to racism the man encountered at the firm’s auto plant in Fremont, US media reported.<br />Diaz says African-American employees at the factory, where his son also worked, were regularly subjected to racist epithets and derogatory imagery.<br />The suit filed by Diaz, his son Demetric and a third former employee says the plaintiffs encountered a scene straight from the Jim Crow era.<br />The court filing says Tesla’s progressive image was a facade papering over its regressive, demeaning treatment of African-American employees.