There has been many instances all over the United States where people of color are treated as lesser because of the color of their skin. Children are being bullied and pushed to their breaking point, teens are getting threatened and excluded and now adults are being harassed. This is not OK.

A General Motors plant in Ohio was struck by racism earlier this week. In a CNN article titled, “Inside the GM plant where nooses and “whites-only” signs hung.” A GM employee named Marcus Boyd who said that it took 14 months for this kind of harassment to emerge.

He said the whole time he worked there, he was getting called racist names such as “monkey” or was told to “go back to Africa.”

The article states that in this workplace, “black employees were warned a white colleague’s ‘daddy’ was in the Ku Klux Klan. White workers wore shirts with Nazi symbols underneath their coveralls.”

Boyd said he repeatedly heard the N-word being said, and it was harder and harder to ignore this kind of treatment each day. The article also states that, “Even more violent situations were brushed away. Boyd said he feared for his life when a member of his team, irate about a vacation request, yelled and raised a heavy, metal clutch assembly as if he was going, hit him.”

Racism is unacceptable.

Now, being a white woman in the Midwest means that my judgment is not that of someone who has to endure these kind of names and slights their whole life. I am just another person who is here to state that this kind of treatment — directed toward anyone — is intolerable and should have remained a thing of the past.