Clinton Brown and Tucker Chocolate are two of the Benjamin Moore paint names that a former employee found to be offensive, enough so to file suit against the paint company. As detailed in this article, Clinton Tucker began his employment with Benjamin Moore in 2011.
Tucker was hired in the digital marketing department and according to his suit the discrimination began almost immediately. While working on Benjamin Moore’s campaign for its Williamsburg color collection, Tucker became aware of a new color Tucker Chocolate, which according to the suit is “extremely racially offensive.” Tucker Orange and Tucker Gray are also offered as part of the paint company’s Williamsburg Collection.
The suit reads in part, “Despite (Tucker’s) repeated complaints and protestations to BM management about these appallingly racial color names, no action was ever taken by Benjamin Moore to change the names of these colors.” Other claims made in the suit are that Tucker was demoted at the time his white coworkers were promoted and his request to take Martin Luther King , Jr. Day off was denied. Benjamin Moore terminated Tucker’s employment in March of this year.
Tucker is seeking damages for discrimination, retaliation and a hostile work environment.
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