Opinion ID: 537698
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Heading: The Facts Reveal A Racially Hostile Environment

Text: 3 Regarding the issue of racial hostility in the work place, the trial court found that Windholtz and one of the plant supervisors frequently made racially derogatory remarks. Because they are so flagrant, revolting, and inflammatory, and reflect--better than anything we could say--the deplorable atmosphere of open, hostile, and racially motivated discrimination, we set them out below. 3 Moreover, these racially hostile remarks were made, with the obvious though unthinking purpose to demean them, in the presence of and about black employees. They were, the judge stated, so commonplace, overt and denigrating that they created an atmosphere charged with racial hostility. The Court concluded that racial harassment at the Company was sufficiently severe and pervasive that it created an abusive work environment for blacks in clear violation of Sec. 703 of Title VII. The Company's management had knowledge of these activities and this environment. The Court enjoined the Company from maintaining a work place with a racially hostile environment. 4