About Scott Pruden

Looking for a Righteous Cause

DeWitt Lambert grew up in Alabama against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement, so he knows what overt racism can look like. Even so, he says he never heard the N-word directed at him in the workplace until he began working at the Fremont assembly plant for Tesla in 2015. There, Lambert says he faced a constant onslaught of racist treatment. He alleged that coworkers flashed gang signs, called him the N-word, and, in mind-boggling acts of self-incrimination, recorded racist videos on his …