Founded by a well known racist and seeking to kill minority children for decades who’d a thunk that they were racist.
Yahoo: A former Planned Parenthood employee is suing the company, alleging racial discrimination and wrongful termination in a sprawling complaint that covers multiple years and more than a dozen employees.
The employee, former multicultural brand engagement director Nicole Moore, claims she and other women of color at the national Planned Parenthood offices were routinely disparaged, dismissed and given fewer opportunities than their white colleagues. When she complained about this treatment, she says, her managers retaliated against her in a campaign so severe it landed her in the emergency room with an anxiety attack.
The complaint contains anecdotes from multiple employees and contractors, hinting at tensions with racism within the organization that have bubbled under the surface for years.
Renee Bracey Sherman, a reproductive rights activist and former Planned Parenthood consultant who is mentioned in the suit, said she read the complaint and was not surprised by it.
“I’ve experienced and been told stories similar to those outlined in the complaint. It’s hardly my first experience and I doubt it will be my last,” she told The Daily Beast. “I’m so tired of being quiet about racism in [the reproductive rights movement] for the sake of saving Roe. We lost Roe. Now we need to deal with the white supremacy and exploitation underlying our movement.”
Moore said in a statement that she hoped the lawsuit would inspire “real change at Planned Parenthood so that the organization can fully live up to its promise to ‘Stand With Black Women’—starting with those who work there.”
