‘Your Black A—!’: New York Honda Staff Bombarded Black Woman with Racial Slurs, Hung a Monkey at Work, and Drove Her Out of a Job, Lawsuit Claims

“Why do all Black people call each other ‘ni—er’?”

That is the jarring question Christina Cahill says she faced from a white co-worker at Rensselaer Honda in Troy, New York, two years ago. At that point she’d been in her position as a service advisor at the dealership for six months.

“Excuse me?” said Cahill, who is Black. When her co-worker, Ehren Moppert, repeated the question, she allegedly replied, “First of all, you shouldn’t say that to a Black person. It is very offensive. I do not use that language. Have you ever heard me say that word? All Black people do NOT speak that way.”

According to her federal civil rights lawsuit filed on Aug. 29 and obtained by Atlanta Black Star, the N-word was among a barrage of racist comments repeatedly uttered by her white colleagues at Honda that