| Name of Complainant | |
| Date of Complaint | February 13, 2021 |
| Name(s) of companies complained against | Amazon |
| Category of complaint | Miscellaneous |
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As I’m in the Amazon fulfillment center in West Deptford on Mantua road today, I was awaiting my turn to be seated to have my badge picture taken and drug test done and security is playing music from his phone. He is picking song after song and laying his phone down to allow it to play loud enough to be heard even in the offices down the hall where the drug tests were being administered.
As I’m standing there, I’m hearing his song making references to a black man being framed for a murder. I tend to try and mind my business so I let it go.
Then I hear a verse that says “The judge made Rubin’s witnesses drunkards from the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
And though they could not produce the gun
The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
And the all-white jury agreed”
Its highly offensive as a Black Woman in the times we’re living in right now, to have even been exposed to this experience. It’s totally inexcusable for him to play any don’t with such a BLATANT “nigger” blasting in the lyrics of a song written by a white man.
The account manager stopped his interview and took me into a back room to apologize while the security guard FIRST claimed to have NOT known what the name of the song was after I asked him. As he saw me walking away with the manager, he recanted and instead claimed “the song is from ‘76. They said crazy things back then. I don’t write the songs” as if that’s justification for him not even attempting to turn it off once the lyrics played. As if he as a White man wasn’t amongst a lobby of majority Blacks. He never excused himself NOR apologized for his behavior, instead, turned to a front window and never faced my direction again.
I was told that the behavior would be handled but I find it unacceptable that he was still sitting there in the same lobby as I exited after my process, as if no one cared.
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