Mr. Eric Berry

When Eric Berry received an E-mail from his white supervisor which depicted a doctored picture of Mr. Berry's company photograph with a noose around his neck, exaggerated fang teeth, a bottle of Colt 45 and a large black penis, the insults could no longer be tolerated.Berry, an African-American employed as a director of product marketing at Radianz Inc., the New York-based organization created by Reuters, took his complaint to the EEOC."I have been forced to endure racially derogatory statements, epithets, jokes and other forms of harassment in the workplace," Berry said in his statement to the EEOC.He said he broke down and cried when he received the racially offensive and insensitive E-mails, which included one of Miss South Africa with a gorilla's head imposed on the photo of her body.Last Thursday, Berry took his plight to Johnnie Cochran's downtown Manhattan office, where a press conference was held.Cochran, along with the law firm of Thompson Wigdor & Gilly, announced the commencement of a class action lawsuit against Radianz, the world's largest Internet-based network for global financial services."We are offended by this outrageously racist environment at Radianz," Cochran began, "and we will not let it go unchallenged."Berry is joined by two others in the complaint, Yolanda Washington and Peter Snowden.
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Washington, like Berry, who remains employed at the company, has been repeatedly denied promotion because of her race.
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"Despite numerous avenues within Radianz that Mr. Berry could have used to report his complaint, Radianz was only first made aware of his complaint by his attorneys on May 28, 2003."Radianz immediately initiated an investigation into Mr. Berry's complaint, without his cooperation, and determined that certain specific incidents of which he complained were in violation of Radianz company policy.As a result, several weeks ago, one employee was terminated and three others were subjected to disciplinary action." Since filing his complaint with the EEOC, Berry said he has been continuously harassed by his supervisors and other white employees."I have been repeatedly called a nigger in the workplace," he said.Meanwhile, his employer had done nothing to prevent this conduct, according to Berry.