Ex-NASCAR worker alleges racial discrimination in lawsuit

alen1 · Jun 10, 2008

As an aspiring racing official, Mauricia Grant had grown used to working in a man's world.

When she finally made it into NASCAR, Grant was appalled at the way she was treated beginning from her first day on the job until her firing last October.

Now she's suing NASCAR for $225 million, alleging racial and sexual discrimination, sexual harassment and wrongful termination.

"I loved it. It was a great, exciting, adrenaline-filled job where I worked with fast cars and the best drivers in the world," Grant told The Associated Press. "But there was an ongoing daily pattern [of harassment]. It was the nature of the people I worked with, the people who ran it, it trickled down from the top.

"It's just the way things are in the garage," she said.

The 32-year-old Grant, who is black, worked as a technical inspector responsible for certifying cars in NASCAR's second-tier Nationwide Series from January 2005 until her termination. In the lawsuit, she alleged she was referred to as "Nappy Headed Mo" and "Queen Sheba" by co-workers, was often told she worked on "colored people time" and was frightened by one official who routinely made references to the Ku Klux Klan.
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The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, lists 23 specific incidents of alleged sexual harassment and 34 specific incidents of alleged racial and gender discrimination beginning when she was hired in January 2005 through her October 2007 firing.
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Sad to see that after ALL these years, we still have racism in this country.

brandon27 · Jun 11, 2008

225 million??? hmmm... ok.

but yeah it is pretty sad to see that it still exists. Some things will never change though i guess...

MelbournePhin · Jun 13, 2008

damn racist hillbillies

BigDogsHunt · Jun 13, 2008

"Nappy Headed Mo"

Took me a while to connect Mo to Maurice....I kept thinking based her garage work, or the whole "grease-monkey" thing (oops that may be another type of insult here ) that they were making fun of Pep-Boys stuff:

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