‘Uncomfortable’: Black Woman Fired by Louisiana Dental Clinic After Complaining About White Doctor Who Proposed Attending Protests In Blackface Can Proceed, Federal Judge Rules

A racial discrimination case filed by the EEOC on behalf of a Black woman who was fired after complaining about racist comments allegedly made by her supervisor at a dental clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana, can proceed, a federal judge has ruled. Destiny Johnson was working at CASSE Community Health Institute as a dental assistant in June 2020 when she heard the clinic’s director, Dr. Edward Chumley, who is white, propose to join ongoing racial justice protests in blackface and to go rioting and looting, according to her legal complaint. Woman at front desk of dental office. (Stock/Getty) Johnson also claimed she witnessed Chumley tell a co-worker “he was okay with her so long as she was not part of an Antifa group or Black Lives Matter,” and that Chumley “singled out Ms. Johnson — the only Black employee in a room of white employees” — and asked her whether she had attended recent racial justice protests in Shreveport. Johnson told co-workers and another supervisor that Chumley’s comments and actions made her feel uncomfortable, a complaint that was relayed to the clinic’s CEO, Mary Elizabeth Chumley, the wife of Edward Chumley. Within one hour of learning of Johnson’s complaints from billing...