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lunasun

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1. Wow not even trying to hide it
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 08:45 PM
Aug 2018

Gomez also alleges in his complaint that one FAIR employee, Jennifer Hickey, used the word “spic” twice to his knowledge, once when she described characters in a FAIR-produced cartoon Gomez was narrating as “a bunch of spics jumping all over each other,” and another time in reference to Gomez himself.
He appeared in a Facebook Live video alongside the research director, a white man, and Hickey called the pair, “the spic and the hick,” according to a white videographer who was present.

Both incidents occurred in the presence of leadership, Gomez said, but nothing was done. On another occasion, the complaint says, FAIR digital director Gabriela Trainor “offered to pretend to be an ‘illegal alien from Mexico’ and smear herself with mud.”

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