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I just got laid off from my job at CBS and every producer on my team who got laid off is a person

of color. Every person who gets to stay and will be relocated within the company is a white person.

Now, in my meeting with the executive who told me I was getting laid off, I specifically asked him

if it was a consideration for us to be relocated somewhere else within the company and he said

that we advocated to keep the show. We advocated to try to get you relocated somewhere and we

couldn't. Because I asked him, why are you the person who is making this decision or delivering

the news that we're being laid off? And he said, oh it could have been anyone. Only to later find

out because it wasn't until I went downstairs thinking that me and all of my colleagues had

been laid off that I found out that it was only the people of color. So I went one by one to my

white colleagues, are you getting laid off? No. Are you getting laid off? No. Are you getting laid off? No.

Are you getting laid off? No. So I went back up to his office and I told him, I think you lied to my face.

And come to find out,

it was not his decision to eliminate the show that I worked for. But he did get to decide

who got to stay. I told him, you said that you couldn't get us relocated only to find out that

you were able to get some people relocated and they all happen to be white. Am I supposed to

believe that that's a coincidence? And he said, yes. I'm supposed to believe that's coincidence. I

said, do you believe that's coincidence? He said, I do because I chose to keep the people who I had

worked with before. So mind you, not only is it not based on merit, it is

in its result, racist. I don't care if you decided to keep people who had purple colored hair.

You deciding to keep people who you had worked with before, which I don't even know if that's

true. If the outcome of that decision is racist, the action was racist, that shit is fucked.