A former Verizon Wireless employee says he endured a racially hostile environment for years at the company’s Lancaster store, where management permitted racial slurs and jokes and accommodated customers who refused to be served by a black man.
“They wouldn’t want to work with the ‘n—–’ or the ‘colored boy,’” Martin Hopkins said.
Instead of defending him, managers would ask him to go to another area of the store while a white salesperson handled the transaction, Hopkins said. He said a manager he had worked with had a Confederate flag tattooed on his chest.
