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‘Shut Up, Ape, Before I Put You In a Cage!’: Black Chick-fil-A Worker In Idaho Filed 30 Complaints But Was Forced to Endure the Racist Abuse Because Harassers ‘Couldn’t Be Fired,’ Lawsuit Claims 2025/05/26 00:00

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• Posted: 2025/05/26 (date: 2025/05/26)
• Topics: racism Chick-fil-A US/ID nepotism
• Summary: «A Black man who worked as a cook at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Idaho filed a federal employment discrimination lawsuit claiming his co-workers subjected him to relentless racial harassment, including calling him an “ape” and “ni—er” and comparing him to a slave. [..] According to his complaint obtained by Atlanta Black Star, shortly after Thomas Wade started working as a cook at the Chick-Fil-A franchise in Ammon, a suburb of Idaho Falls, in December 2022, he applied for the company’s leadership development program but was passed over for a white male employee.» ... «In March of 2023, Wade says he “intervened” when Isaiah Ibarra, Eric’s son, and another employee were antagonizing a third co-worker. [..] “Shut up, ape, before I put you in a cage,” Isaiah Ibarra allegedly said to Wade. [..] When Wade said he would report the conduct to management, Isaiah allegedly called him a “monkey-looking ass” and warned him that “my parents own this store.”»

• source: Atlanta Black Star