Facebook screen shot collage of Christine Mcmullen Lindgren’s profile and status update.
After an Atlanta Bank of America employee posted a racist tirade on Facebook, the woman has been terminated. Christine Mcmullen Lindgren worked as a personal banker at the company according to her page on the social media site. In her rant, she repeatedly used the N-word to refer to African-Americans and commanded that they “go back to Africa.”
“I hate Facebook for this reason you f——- n—— and yes if [you] can call each other that well I can too,” Lindgren wrote earlier this week. “F—— n—— go back to Africa get over your pity party.”
“You created this hatred and your own kind that brought your great great grandparents over here and sold them,” she continues. “Do something with your lives and your children’s lives I’m sure you don’t work collect welfare and teach hatred your poor children all 5 of them you can’t afford because I pay for them.”
Though it is unclear what led Lindgren to write the post, it was met with anger once it went viral. Many users called for Bank of America to terminate Lindgren from her position.
“Is this the type of person that you choose to represent your business?” Liz Owens wrote on the bank’s Facebook page June 2. “A vile, disgusting person full of hate and bigotry? Once again you people have shown your true colors. Unbelievable how you would let such a mean spirited, miserable individual such as herself represent your brand. Shame on you.”
Streeter B. Turner III threatened to close his account with the bank if they did not remove Lindgren by June 10.
“One of your employees is happily telling folks she’s your employee while liberally interspersed hate and racism permeate her every expression,” Turner wrote. “As a member of your bank, I find this behavior both reprehensible and unacceptable.”
But Turner did not have to wait long for the former banker to be given the pink slip.
Bank of America tweeted an update on Lindgren’s employment status yesterday.
We are aware of an unacceptable post on Facebook. The comments are reprehensible. We have terminated the employment of the individual.
— Bank of America News (@BofA_News) June 2, 2016
They shared a similar message on Facebook minutes later.
Andy Aldridge, one of the bank’s senior vice president and communications managers, confirmed the news to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He would not reveal exactly what location Lindgren worked at and only said it was in the metro Atlanta area.
After stating her comments were “reprehensible and unacceptable” he told told the newspaper “we have investigated the matter and terminated her. She no longer works for Bank of America.”
Lindgren has since deleted her Facebook page.
This is not the first time Bank of America has been caught in the middle of a racism scandal.
In 2013, The Huffington Post reported the U.S. Department of Labor ordered the company to pay $2.2 million to 1,147 African-Americans who alleged BofA had racially discriminated against them in the hiring process.
lady suffered from depression anxiety and panic attacks, before this…. guess she'll be on suicide watch now.
Unfortunately, mental illness isn't cured yet and even when all the elderly pass, more younger crazies will step up to take their place.
She is so so right though,nothing slanderish about that post. until society recognises what she says is absolutely true and wakes up from its
stupid idococy of all equal the coubntry will descend to a cess pit. Segregation is the way forward. Look at South Africa ,a basket case,cannot provide just utter useless whatevers trying to govern …right
John Bentham Don't worry. Because you can bet you won't be anywhere near the pearly gates with that kind of spirit. More likely you'll be keeping company with the Satan and his angels outside the city of God.
Only one thing greater than God ,Allah or even Buddha,the holy of holy,the greatest gift ,the greatest offering bestowed on man and especially black man,that is Food Stamp,the greatest offerings the world bestows on apes
Sorry old man, this isn't the 40's anymore. That kind of trash talk isn't looked upon well by most people.
John Bentham " our filthy bodies? " k let me take a look back on history at how many diseases you inbred europeans brought over the atlantic ocean
"The diseases brought to this continent by the Europeans included bubonic plague, chicken pox, pneumonic plague, cholera, diphtheria, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough."
im sorry maybe you should take your kind and go bac kto europe and start another war that kills off another 50 mil of your own people over " race / religion " Oh and since you like calling people " apes " you should know That alot of monkeys have pale skin thin lips straight hair and bugs crawling through their hair, just like whites have Hair Lice.
Oh btw the food stamp was created for Whites during the great depression in 1932.
Im sure you don't know your own history as alot of you inbed white racist dont, but dont worry, i'll be here to REMIND YOU OF IT ALL.
Arvind Gopalaswamy Should have known..Indian…nothing to say,nothing to add of any substance…go have a bad day,of which Im sure there are many
"young crazies" are the way forward,whites ones that is,will dominate,more enforced than the "oldies,thank God
Well now lady is fired!
Double standard much?
How in the world is this a double standard to hold someone accountable for their words and actions
Not for nothing but she does make a couple valid points yet could have been more PC I guess being thats what this new world is all about not offending one another.. SMH