What the hell is in the water in Texas? First Paulnut Debra Medina loses the Glenn Beck endorsement by supporting trutherism, now she has a Democrat counter part who doubles down on that and adds in some race baiting for good measure.
From WFAA:
Race became an issue in the Democratic primary for governor today.
Farouk Shami, the millionaire hair care products maker who’s running, said he doesn’t find many white people willing to work, so he says he hires Hispanics and blacks instead.
He made the comments responding to a question about whether the state should crack down on employers hiring illegal immigrants.
He also said he, too, would not disavow the conspiracy theory that the U.S. government was involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
[…]
Asked to explain what he meant about not hiring many whites, he said they want special treatment. “A majority of the people are going to be Hispanic and African-American. You don’t find white people who are willing to work in factories. And our history proves, you know, lots of time when they, you know, the white people come to work in a factory they either want to be supervisors or they want to be, you know, paid more than the average person. And unfortunately they exit.â€
And then just a day after Medina, didn’t reject the notion that the government was involved in the 9/11 attacks, Shami didn’t either.
“I’m not sure. I am not going to really judge or answer about something I’m not really sure about. But the rumors are there that there was a conspiracy. True or not? It’s hard to believe, you know, what happened. It’s really hard to comprehend what happened. Maybe. I’m not sure.â€
I assume he’s also not sure he wants to be Governor of Texas.
Debra Medina also claims to now “not” support the 9/11 “Truth” Movement, even though Alex Jones’ own YouTube channel promoted her own PR for her campaign on his own channel!
Imagine that?
No white people don’t like to work for $7 an hour.
Plenty of “White” people (which would included Mexicans of European extraction) do in fact work for minimum wage (which is higher than $7/hr) and no one likes it.
If you’re making $7/hr you’re clearly getting ripped of, and probably working illegally.
Unfortunately, due to their economic circumstances, only the Hispanic women are willing to tolerate the long-lasting conditions at Farouk’s manufacturig facilities.
Farouk Shami’s business has landed in court often
http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/farouk-shami-s-business-has-landed-in-court-207251.html…
Austin American-Statesman Feb 1, 2010
The company had hired Coral Olsen as human resources manager, according to court records. Olsen, a 15-year human resources professional, declined to be interviewed for this story but said in court documents that she was the company’s first human resources director. At the time, the company had more than 300 workers and 1,500 part-time stylists. (Educators teaching classes)
Olsen said in court documents that she discovered several sexual harassment complaints and then met resistance — from Shami and company President Shauky Gulamani — when she tried to implement the company’s first written policy on the issue.
“Farouk Systems’ arrogance, degradation, treating female employees as inferior and generally talking down to females is simply a matter of course and an established and accepted pattern at Farouk Systems,” Olsen said in court documents. “This behavior was persistently defended as the way of their normally accepted Middle Eastern culture.”
Court documents show Olsen was fired three weeks after being hired. Farouk Systems denied the claims, and the case was dismissed in 2005. Shami said Doufikar was simply after money.
Of Olsen, Shami said: “I do not know who this person is, but this is far away from the truth. … We protect women and women’s rights. We don’t have sexual harassment.”
Shami said he has an open-door policy to discuss such concerns. He added that sexual harassment is highly unlikely because most of his workers are women and most of the few men are gay.
“Hairdressers don’t sexually harass women,” Shami said. “Especially when you have 80, 90 percent women. I mean, how could that happen?”
For one – Farouk’s sons are not haidressers.
Sexual harassment runs rampant at that company with out a doubt . Starts at the very top of management , if you complain your job will be eliminated immediately. News Media needs to do better job researching this candiate the skeltons are there.
To: Sofia Santos
I agree that the working conditions at Farouk’s plants will continue until there is enough publicity in the media, which however will require many of the past employees (without relatives as current employees, so that they won’t loose their jobs) to stand up and be counted for.
This (unfortunately) will also require an aggressive civil rights attorney who is willing to do the “Right Thing”, not just get the money. The sexual harrasment circumstances are not easy to approve in the court of law.
Rob Taylor,
Looks like we have another left wing bigot on our hands. I hope this guy looses big time.
This SOB owns the CHI hair care product line. He charges $500.00 for a frecking hair dyer! So, I think he can afford to pay a decent wage. Americans would work at his factory if it wasn’t just another sweat shop. But, it really wouldn’t matter because he along with all the other progressives displace American workers daily in order to further line their pockets at the expense of the American worker.
ANY American that buys ANY of his products should have their head examined.
CHI=slave labor, overpriced junk
Farouk=low life Anti-White American Worker
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Well this is capitalism and this is America. Let’s be honest. African slaves provided nearly 3 centuries of slave labor. White people have seldom worked jobs that didn’t pay them high wages with lots of benefits. A few white people did and still do but NOT to the extent nonwhites have.
And whites always believe they should be the supervisors while the nonwhites do all of the low wage but high stress work. All you have to do is study the slave trade and the history of labor in this country to see that Mr. Shami’s statements are largely true.
That’s nonsense. All of what you said is Marxist bullshit. There were many free Blacks in the colonies (remember Crispus Attucks) and until the 1800s when the precursor to the modern Democratic party began to gain cultural influence slavery was on the wane.
Also, Arabs and most Latinos are Caucasians, basic familiarity with genetics and history would tell you that. It was also tell you that many Black slaves were sold by Arab Muslims and that Black Africans continue to be traded by Arabs. There have been many successful Blacks (in the 1800s at least 30 southern congressman were Black Republicans) in America, there are no successful Blacks in Islamic countries deu to the inherent Arab supremacist views of the faith. Mr. Shami’s views on Blacks are driven by his belief that they are naturally subservient to Arabs.
And capitalism is what allows you to sit up at night commenting on blogs. Sans capitalism everything you have now wouldn not exist, including the supply lines that keep big cities in the middle of nowhere (like Dallas) from starving.
Move to Cuba if you hate capitalism, then tell me how Black folk are treated there.
There are FEW successful blacks in the States too the majority of black wealth having been lost in the first half of the 20th century due to KKK burnings of successful black communities.
Arabs and Latinos are largely “white by definition”. This manipulation of race inflates the percentage of Caucasians in the American population. Also Arabs enslaved whites as well as blacks.
If Mr. Shami had made a statement that he doesn’t hire blacks because they are lazy and would prefer to sit at home and smoke crack he would have gotten a lot of amens and would have been elected governor.
Black folks are treated no worse in Cuba than they are anywhere else. I would like to invite white Americans to move to Europe and see how well they fare there without all of the white skin privileges they receive in both North and South America.
Mr. Shami is simply a good oldfashioned capitalist who will seek out those who will work for nothing like America did with her free slave labor for nearly three centuries. What he said is true. White people are not going to work for the low wages historically meted out to nonwhites. I see this all the time in California. If not for overqualified blacks and Asians, government jobs in California would lack qualified applicants because many white AMericans will not work for the low pay when they could always go to Silicon Valley and make seven figure incomes.
But then who blames them? Why work for low pay and high stress when you can get a better deal? Unfortunately for most people of color high paying jobs are not the norm due to that old demon of racism. Mr. Shami knows this and every other capitalist looking for cheap laborers knows this.
Are you retarded? 75% of African Americans are middle class. Arabs are GENETICALLY Caucasian in that they are descendants of the Indo-European peoples (and in fact speak an Indo-European language) and “Latino” culture is based largely on the imported culture of Europeans from Spain.
Blacks in Cuba are second class citizens, and in fact several have been imprisoned recently for simply speaking about Martin Luther King jr. Cuba’s hero Che had this to say about Blacks:
“”The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portugese…. the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead.”
Statues of this racist stare down at Black Cubans every day. How dare you claim Black folk aren’t treated poorly in Cuba.
Capitalism has nothing to do with the ingrained racism of Islam, nor his history of allowing sexual abuse of his workers. You’re a disgusting bigot defending racism of the most obvious time with leftist pablum. Typical of a White liberal pretending to be Black. Go back to DailyKos boomer.