Reuters
General Mills has been sued by eight Black employees who accused the food company of tolerating decades of racism at a suburban Atlanta plant led by white managers known as the Good Ole Boys. A complaint filed on Sunday said managers at the Covington plant, which makes cereal and trail mix, favor whites for promotions over more qualified Blacks, subject Blacks to tougher performance standards, and manufacture false evidence to justify demoting Blacks. One plaintiff, Keith McClinton, said that after "KKK" was scrawled on his lunchbox in 2006, he was forced to give a handwriting sample to show he did not do it himself.