A Black man who worked as a truck driver for Estes Express Lines in Kansas is suing the cargo service for racial and sexual discrimination, claiming a white supervisor harassed him with racist and vulgar comments, then fired him after he complained.

According to his lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas on May 23, Justin Williams of Topeka was hired by Richmond, Virginia-based Estes in June of 2023, and began training at their Shawnee County facility with his supervisor Mike Rumbley to be certified as a driver of double and triple load trailer trucks.

Rumbley is white, and within a few months, he allegedly began to make racially offensive and sexual comments that Williams says humiliated and threatened him.

Rumbley told Williams several times that he “owned” him and that he was

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