Back down or damage your reputation. That’s the message New York City Comptroller, Scott Stringer, issued to Comcast on Tuesday, urging the cable giant to sit with media mogul, Byron Allen, in the midst of his racial discrimination lawsuit against the company.
“Through its pursuit of this case in the Supreme Court, Comcast will have a direct and possibly deleterious impact on… one of our nation’s oldest federal civil rights laws, and thereby limit access to U.S. courts for victims of discrimination,” Stringer wrote.
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Stringer manages more than $200 billion dollars in pension money for New York City, which is a major shareholder in Comcast, and says the city’s pension has a “longstanding history” of “challenging discrimination at our portfolio companies.”
Mr. Allen, CEO of Entertainment Studios, has sued Comcast under the Civil Rights Act of 1866, Section 1981, alleging the company refused to do business with him because of his race, as it did deals with other less successful networks.
“I remain open and willing to meet with Brian Roberts to resolve this matter immediately – before millions of Americans suffer the loss of our oldest and one of our most important civil rights,” Allen said in a statement.
Source: NYC comptroller pressures Comcast to settle racial discrimination case with Byron Allen
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