"I just got laid off from my job at CBS, and every producer on my team who got laid off is a person of color, Sherman said. Every person who gets to stay and will be relocated within the company is a White person."
"Today we begin the difficult process of informing impacted team members across the company, he wrote. These decisions are never made lightly, especially given their effect on our colleagues who have made meaningful contributions to the company."
"I don't care if you decided to keep people who have purple color hair, Sherman said. You decided to keep people who you had worked with before with don't even know if that's true if the outcome of that decision is racist, the action was racist. That sh*t is f*cked."
CBS implemented a first round of roughly 1,000 job cuts after a merger approval involving Skydance and parent company Paramount. Trey Sherman, an associate producer for CBS Evening News+ and the CBS Race & Culture Unit, lost both roles and said every producer laid off from his team was a person of color while those kept and relocated were White. Sherman said an executive told him a new role would be found and he later confronted that executive after checking colleagues. CEO David Ellison announced the layoffs as difficult decisions. Another 1,000 jobs may be cut later and CBS has not commented on discrimination claims.
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