Kanye West Fired Black Employee For Having Dreadlocks, New Lawsuit Claims -- And Treated Whites Better!
27.04.2024 - 03:11
/ perezhilton.com
Kanye West is facing yet ANOTHER lawsuit over his alleged conduct within the now (temporarily?) shuttered Donda Academy.
On Friday, a man named Benjamin Deshon Provo filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles claiming the rapper “frequently” screamed at him during his employment as a security guard at the school. Provo, a Black man sporting dreadlocks, says Ye berated him over the color of his skin — and even told him he had to cut off his dreads in order to keep his job. WTF!!
Like we mentioned, this is not the first Donda Academy lawsuit coming down the pike. In a prior one, another former employee named Trevor Phillips accused Ye of once threatening to shave Donda students’ heads and lock them in cages. Phillips’ previous suit also alleged that Ye fired a security guard over not cutting off his dreads — but included no other details regarding that claim. Well, now we know all about it, because Provo’s new suit is now part of the record.
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In this new filing, Provo claims he was hired to work as a security guard at Donda Academy beginning in August 2021. However, things turned pear-shaped right away. Provo alleges Ye was incredibly harsh on Black employees while consistently treating white staff members with respect. Per Page Six, which obtained a copy of the lawsuit, Provo claims:
Specifically, Provo claims the 46-year-old fashion designer “ridiculed” him for wearing his hair in dreads — despite the fact that the former security guard says his hairstyle was chosen specifically as part of his Muslim faith. In the suit, he noted:
In the end, the guard says he was indeed fired after refusing to cut his hair. He stood on his principles — at the cost