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Black ASPCA Employee Sues Company After Thirsty White Female Coworkers Grope Him And Run Around Calling Him “Sexual Chocolate”

Man Sues ASPCA Over Sexual Harrassment An African American NYC man is suing the animal rights organization he worked for until last August, alleging that he was catcalled and sexually teased by a brood of white women who thought it was fun to grope him and come up with sexual pet names to call him in the office. He believes no one took his complaints seriously because he’s a gay black man working with a team of straight white women … Via TMZ : An ASPCA employee in NYC says he was treated like a piece of meat, or rather — a giant piece of chocolate candy by female co-workers who groped him and discriminated against him. Benjamin Li’Gon is suing the animal rights group where he was the hiring manager up until August … and in the docs he says he is a gay black man, which is significant since most of his co-workers were white heterosexual women. Li’Gon describes a sorority girls gone wild atmosphere where one colleague groped him and called him “sexual chocolate” while others watched. It might have been a reference to an hysterical “Coming to America” scene, but Li’Gon wasn’t laughing. He also says another woman called him “sexy Benny boo boo bear” in an elevator. None of those people were disciplined, according to his lawsuit. Li’Gon says he thinks the head of HR of hates gay black men, since his frequent complaints to her fell on deaf ears. He was fired in August, after he says he was accused of “inappropriate horseplay” with his male assistant … which he denies. Li’Gon is suing for wrongful termination and discrimination, seeking at least $2 million. Now let this have been one of the white women complaining that this Black man was touching them inappropriately and “catcalling” them in the office…Human Resources would have reacted faster than the speed of light! SMH.

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Black ASPCA Employee Sues Company After Thirsty White Female Coworkers Grope Him And Run Around Calling Him “Sexual Chocolate”

Viola Davis Claps Back At Washed Up Soap Star’s Criticism Of Her Emmy Acceptance Speech

Viola Davis Responds To Soap Star’s Criticism Of Her Emmy Speech Last week, a random actress from “General Hospital” got a little salty about Viola Davis’ Emmy speech focusing on opportunity for Black actresses and decided to fire off a series of equally salty, semi-racist tweets dismissing her passion and emotion over her accomplishment. Ever the class act, Viola just essentially “read” old Nancy without even bothering to address the actress or her privileged-azz tweets directly. As Viola shared via the New York Times : “If there has been any backlash, it’s that all people want to feel included in a speech. I know there has been some backlash with an actress who didn’t feel she was included.” When asked if she was speaking specifically about Soap Opera Actress Nancy Grahn, Viola simply responded: “Yes, I don’t know that I want to say more about that.” Welp — too damn bad for Nancy. She’s got to realize that she didn’t have any reason to be included in Viola’s or any other Black actresses’ triumphant moment from that night. However, Viola also pointed out that the response to her speech has been overwhelmingly positive, and she’s glad she was able to inspire others with her words: I feel like I’ve gotten a really huge response that kind of surpassed the award. Just people admiring my speech makes me feel really good. I remember Meryl Streep told me once, “You know, Viola, these young girls are always listening to us — every word we say is hitting them in a way that you can’t even imagine.” And that’s what I’ve found to be very true. Nice, Viola. Keep doing what you do!

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Viola Davis Claps Back At Washed Up Soap Star’s Criticism Of Her Emmy Acceptance Speech