Comment by metabagel

> California’s Civil Rights Department, which sued Tesla in February 2022 after a three-year investigation, documented specific language in its complaint: the n-word, “porch monkey,” “monkey toes,” “boy,” “hood rats,” “go back to Africa,” plus the Spanish-language slurs “mayate” and “negrita.” One worker told investigators he heard slurs 50 to 100 times a day.

The agency also alleged the factory was effectively segregated, with an area where Black workers were concentrated known internally as the “porch monkey station.” Workers reported coworkers displaying Confederate flag tattoos to intimidate them.

The EEOC’s own federal complaint, filed in September 2023 in the Northern District of California, adds graffiti: swastikas, threats, and nooses scrawled around the facility, going back to at least 2015. Then-EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows called it “shameful racial bigotry.”

Among more than 200 worker declarations gathered in the state case, about two-thirds said they saw anti-Black graffiti. Dozens said complaining got them retaliated against, including fired.