A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled unanimously that banana peels can be evidence of racial harassment supporting an employment discrimination claim by an African-American man.
As noted by Monday’s opinion, several federal appeals courts, including the Eleventh Circuit, had acknowledged the term “monkey” can be the basis for a racial harassment claim by an African American. But this week’s decision went a step further in accepting that an African-American man’s complaints that banana peels and pieces had been left on his truck at his company’s service center could support a case, too.
