Emmy award-winning anchor Kelly Wright lead a press conference announcing a class action lawsuit he is taking part in, that charges Fox News with racial discrimination, on Wednesday, April 26. Wright is one of 11 current and past employees of the network who joined together in filing the complaint at the Bronx Supreme Court on Tuesday, during what has proven to be a trying time for Fox, as it faces mounting allegations from women charging sexual harassment as well.
“Somewhere along the line, (Fox) lost their way and they’ve failed to include equality for all. The (network) failed to be fair and balanced for all of our employees regardless of race, gender, faith, creed or color,” Wright said, while attesting to the suit's claim that Fox has exhibited “abhorrent, intolerable, unlawful and hostile racial discrimination.” After 14 years with the station, if anyone were able to make the claim, it would be Wright, who cited the corporation as participating in a "culture of systemic and institutional racial bias. Fox has denied the allegations brought forth in the suit, and promised to "vigorously" fight the case.
Tichaona Brown and Tabrese Wright, two employees from the payroll department, were the first to launch the grievance. Wright admitted to taking so long to put his support behind measures to expose racism in the network, because he didn't feel empowered to concede his personal interests. But with the pressure to confess building on his conscience, he was brought to pray about it through tears. “I said, ‘I can no longer sit in silence, collect my paycheck, and act like I didn’t experience racial bias on my own level — an on-air personality',” Wright said.
Source: nydailynews.com
