MAGA-Hat-Wearing Worker Accuses USPS of Reverse, Religious Bias

July 31, 2020, 6:30 PM UTC

The U.S. Postal Service let a Black female employee in Kentucky abuse him with profanity and accusations of racism—including for wearing a MAGA hat to work—and flout office dress requirements with impunity, driving him from his job, a White Christian man alleges in a federal lawsuit.

James Halbauer says Mashalina Spicer called him a racist repeatedly after he arrived at work in his MAGA hat Aug. 22, 2019, and hadn’t yet taken it off before clocking in for the day. When a union steward told Spicer to stop yelling, she cursed him out, Halbauer says in a suit filed Thursday ...

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