By Jeannie Blaylock
First Coast News

BRUNSWICK, GA -- First Coast News has been investigating allegations that a major local company is guilty of racial discrimination.

Lisa Woods contacted us almost a year ago. She worked at Georgia-Pacific near Brunswick at the scaling house where truckers come to weigh their logs.

She says for months the restroom had a sign saying, "OUT OF ORDER." She alleges her co-worker, Anthony Lee, believed the races shouldn't mix. Lee had no comment.

An independent trucker, Donald Jones, says when he went to the scaling house he saw the same "OUT OF ORDER" sign.

Jones says, "I had to go off in the woods and do what I had to do."

But Lisa Wagner, a former security guard at the scaling house, says if a white truck driver came through, "No problem, no problem at all." Whites were invited to use the toilet, Wagner says.

Was the toilet really broken? First Coast News Jeannie Blaylock went to the scale house with a photographer to find out. She flushed the toilet and it seemed to be working just fine.

Several hours after our news crew stopped at the job site, Georgia-Pacific fired Woods.

Woods is suing Georgia-Pacific for racial and sexual discrimination.

She also alleges Lee put up a cartoon at the job site showing a pregnant monkey. Woods was pregnant at the time but later miscarried.

That miscarriage, verified by medical records from Southeast Georgia Health Systems, is also part of Woods' complaints. She says the company would not let her off from work, even though medical experts recommended she "rest at home for the next several days."

Wagner says, "She worked all day. I seen truckers in and out..in and out...and her by herself working when she had a miscarriage the night before."

Woods alleges she sent numerous communications to the area human resource manager for Georgia-Pacific, but nothing changed.

Attorneys for Geogia-Pacific did not return our calls. But a company spokesperson sent us an email saying, "Georgia-Pacific had a legitimate basis for Ms. Wood's termination and we dispute all of her allegations. We will vigorously defend our position."


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Don't know what we can do here but I hope they have to pay out of their noses.

this stuff still persists from time to time in the USA but one thing for sure is its not tolerated for long

As a White American with a Black Bahamian family,I am very sensitive of this issue.I am not surprised to hear of discrimination in Georgia or the Carolinas,hell my wife was denied a drink in Norfolk Va,the bartender at a Marina demanding ID and she is 43 years old!The sneer we got when we walked in told the whole story and after I read off the bartender we left.Thank the lord we see none of this where we live in CT.:realmad:

By Jeannie Blayloc
First Coast News
BRUNSWICK, GA -- First Coast News has been investigating allegations that a major local company is guilty of racial discrimination.
Lisa Woods contacted us almost a year ago. She worked at Georgia-Pacific near Brunswick at the scaling house where truckers come to weigh their logs.
She says for months the restroom had a sign saying, "OUT OF ORDER." She alleges her co-worker, Anthony Lee, believed the races shouldn't mix. Lee had no comment.
An independent trucker, Donald Jones, says when he went to the scaling house he saw the same "OUT OF ORDER" sign.
Jones says, "I had to go off in the woods and do what I had to do."
But Lisa Wagner, a former security guard at the scaling house, says if a white truck driver came through, "No problem, no problem at all." Whites were invited to use the toilet, Wagner says.
Was the toilet really broken? First Coast News Jeannie Blaylock went to the scale house with a photographer to find out. She flushed the toilet and it seemed to be working just fine.
Several hours after our news crew stopped at the job site, Georgia-Pacific fired Woods.
Woods is suing Georgia-Pacific for racial and sexual discrimination.
She also alleges Lee put up a cartoon at the job site showing a pregnant monkey. Woods was pregnant at the time but later miscarried.
That miscarriage, verified by medical records from Southeast Georgia Health Systems, is also part of Woods' complaints. She says the company would not let her off from work, even though medical experts recommended she "rest at home for the next several days."
Wagner says, "She worked all day. I seen truckers in and out..in and out...and her by herself working when she had a miscarriage the night before."
Woods alleges she sent numerous communications to the area human resource manager for Georgia-Pacific, but nothing changed.
Attorneys for Geogia-Pacific did not return our calls. But a company spokesperson sent us an email saying, "Georgia-Pacific had a legitimate basis for Ms. Wood's termination and we dispute all of her allegations. We will vigorously defend our position."
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/spotlight/news-article.aspx?storyid=95136
The issues of race is still alive even in the Bahamas as well, I work for a company on the beach front a while back & i was so supprise to see how they treat their employes. This man talk to his employes as if they were filt. They told me that no one who they hire for my position ever stays, they always need people to work. These people do not like black people, they only tolorate us because they can't do no better.

For real, white boy this and white boy that, i gettin tired of it, they get biatch slapped quick now .. :sailing:

In the Southern US "Florida included" black folks are looked down upon,period!Along the Southern East Coast,it is much more tolerant,only because so many Northerners have retired there and their attitudes are catching on. In the Bahamas we have always lived together and understand one another much better than in the States,where you don't have to associate if u don't want to.

For real, white boy this and white boy that, i gettin tired of it, they get biatch slapped quick now .. :sailing:


rory u is get that too eh, these racial name-calling needs to stop, on both sides it pretty much hateful

Whats that got to do with me and my post? :dgi:

I guess it has to do with you because we are not as racially polarised here as in the States and although there may be a couple of peeps who scrutinise your opinion,it een most of us........thought you read between the lines.:taped2:

Yep, least I lost a little weight now so they dont call me bald fatty white boy no more :D


bald and fatty...what you use to do to deserve all of dat :shaky:

i guess it was being somewhat bald (2 nails to the head left a couple scars), and fat :D


awww my

Rory, I would like to ask your professional opinion on a computer related problem, BUT I can't seem to send you a PM???? Help!

As long as people continue raising racist children it wil go on. Is a chain.

As long as people continue raising racist children it wil go on. Is a chain.


I consider it a disease in the mind which needs to be eliminated

without going into too much detail, I dated an afro-american from Calihan, Georgia, just across the border from Florida in 1986. I still remember the "Whites Only" restrooms in many businesses/restaurants. Then a restroom marked with a big sign "Blacks".