The facility in question is the subject of a recent lawsuit where the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing found evidence of the Fremont factory segregating their black workers into different, more manually intensive jobs than the rest. The places which the black workers were forced into were allegedly called the “plantation,” and “the slave ship.”
Christian Bootsma is a junior, first-year staff writer for the Statesman. When he is not at LHS, you can usually find him enjoying his favorite outdoor activities: mountain biking, snowboarding or hiking....