Stop Travelers Discrimination of Minority Companies
- by: People Who Care
- recipient: Mr. Christopher J. Lang, Pitzer Snodgrass, P.C., Mr. Jay Fishman, Travelers CEO
African Americans ruled by fear? In Southwest Missouri, home of Joplin, MO this is the case. Unbeknownst to the rest of the country, a small business African American contractor completed the town’s three largest schools demolition projects after the devastating May 2011 tornado. Just in time for the President of the United States to arrive May 2012, graduation time. But by then, the contractor was gone, swept out of town.
Why? A black owned and operated small business contractor was less than desirable in the close-knit community of Joplin. The employees were harassed, belittled, and verbally abused, referred to as the “N” word, “N” lover, "wetbacks", and “boy” everyday. Daily, locals shouted “go home, get out of our town”. Threats of white supremacy groups greeting them on the jobsite. Vehicle windows shot out. Equipment fuel lines cut. And the worst, an attempted $10,000 contract killing.
Why didn’t they speak up? The local police were called, a restraining order filed, and local FBI involvement. The Joplin School District didn’t stop the hatred, they joined in & joined forces with the local community to edge the African American contractor out. Not just with racial discrimination but also with financial intimidation, firing the contractor after all the work was done.
Travelers Insurance gave the Joplin School District $89 million dollars in disaster damages. Joplin School District paid everyone but the small business African American contractor who did all the work. MO-PERM Insurance has ignored the racial bias & refused to allow a complaint to be filed in their office. Whereas Travelers Insurance "lost" all complaints filed.
Travelers & MO-PERM support fraud, mismanagement and racial bias by their insured. Don’t support insurance companies who fuel fiscal mismanagement and discrimination. Don't support companies who give money away to insurance abusers!
Dear Mr. Fishman,
Travelers Insurance, Missouri Public Entity Risk Management Fund (MO-PERM) and its affiliates have actively allowed its insured Joplin School District to mismanage insurance funds received from the May 2011 tornado disaster by refusing to pay its African American contractors, and agreeing only to pay White contractors for worked completed on the natural disaster relief efforts
Travelers Insurance and MO-PERM representatives are aware of the racially discriminatory actions taken against the African American contractor while working in Joplin, MO, to include death threats, police reports, restraining orders, FBI involvement, racially verbal abuse, and racial intimidation.
The demands for justice and equal rights for African American contractors have been ignored by Travelers and MO-PERM offices. The insurance companies need to be accountable for the mismanagement, fraud, and racial discrimination which was allowed to incur.
This death threats, discrimination, racial animus experienced by the contractor are irreparable. Travelers need to properly acknowledge the racism and fiscal intimidation exhibited. African Americans voted in record numbers during the 2012 presidential election; not for gifts, welfare, nor for entitlement programs but for our civil liberties to be protected.
We are asking people sign the petition to demand that Travelers Insurance and its affiliates stop giving to funds to public agency insurance abusers and support insurance fraud.
Sincerely,
People Who Care
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