Nursing home settles with Black employee forced to treat racist resident [View all]

Jameisha Cox got hired as a full-time personal care assistant at central Minnesota's Edgewood Sartell assisted living back in 2017. Her coworkers knew her as a hard worker and a “genuine” person.

But when she walked into one resident in particular’s room, she was allegedly greeted with a demand the staff “not let [her] in there.” Except the resident didn’t say “her," instead using a vile slur for Black people we will not repeat here.

The same resident also tried to rip off Cox's headscarf, and her family would "similarly harass [Cox]," according to an investigation by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. The harassment got so bad that Cox didn’t want to enter the resident’s room alone. After particularly nasty encounters, she’d sometimes start crying. Cox talked to her supervisor, according to her complaint, and was told the resident was – to use the outdated and offensive term found in the record – “not used to being around colored people.”

“She pays to live here,” the supervisor reportedly said. “There isn’t anything we can do.”

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