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Modern Cotton Gin Lawsuit Eerily Echoes Racist Past [AUDIO]

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"A cotton gin in Memphis, Tennessee is facing a federal discrimination complaint after one of its supervisors was caught on a cell phone recording making racist remarks to black employees.

African-American workers at the Atkinson Cotton Warehouse this week described to WREG treatment that evoked cotton's historic connections to racism and slavery.

According to Antonio Harris and Marrio Mangrum, their boss at the cotton gin longed for the days of Jim Crow, when white men could "hang" black men for drinking from the wrong water fountain."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from David Edwards / Raw Story:

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