Racial harassment is up to record levels in offices and factories across the country, according to a recent article in msnbc. You can read the article here (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22575581). Racist graffiti, Klu Klux Klan propaganda and even physical threats including the display of hangman’s nooses are included among the intimidation tools.

Racial harassment cases have more than doubled since the early 1990s, hitting an all-time high of 6,977 in 2007, according to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) data. (Blacks file nine out of 10 race harassment charges). From fiscal 2000 to 2007, the EEOC received 51,000 racial harassment charge filings nationwide, already over the number received during the entire 1990s. Earlier this month, Lockheed Martin Corp. agreed to settle a case and pay $2.5 million to a black electrician who claimed he was harassed on a daily basis. He was threatened with lynching and once told: "If the South had won then this would be a better country."