We're living in the most bizarre timeline one could ever imagine.
A white New York television cartoon producer is suing the world's most famous black weatherman because his production company at a government-funded TV station isn't sufficiently woke.
Okay. The long and short of the situation is this: Al Roker runs a production company that makes government-funded cartoon productions for PBS.
PBS has a DEI policy mandating that you have to hire a certain number of racial minorities to work on a show. You know, because taxpayer-funded Marxist equity is what America is all about?
Bill Schultz is one of the producers who worked for Roker and he's mad and he's suing the weatherman. Not because of the racist DEI policies, but because Roker isn't woke enough.
The lawsuit, filed in New York federal court on Tuesday, alleges executives at Al Roker Entertainment "callously disregarded" a diversity, equity and inclusion program, commonly called DEI, mandated by PBS, which covered the bulk of the production expenses for animated series Weather Hunters, by attempting to have Black writers touch up scripts written by white scribes to give the appearance of a diverse writers' room.
They implemented a racial quota as a condition for funding. Roker met the quota by the letter of the law, but not by the spirit of the law (creating a "diverse" writers room). And now he's in court because of it.
Again, this is a rich white New York television producer suing AL ROKER for cheating on the woke exams.
The lawsuit says efforts to boost diversity were particularly vital to PBS given that Weather Hunters‘ target demographic was Black families. But Schultz claims that Al Roker Entertainment executives, who were allegedly given "totally authority" to manage the series by Roker, "treated the DEI Policy as discretionary and an obstacle to be circumvented."
Schultz was served a notice that he was in breach of his contract for failures related to staffing, among other things, shortly after an August 2023 meeting in which the show's story editor stated that he "could not meet the production schedule if BIPOC writers were used to write the stories" and that "he would need to hire experienced non-BIPOC writers," the lawsuit alleges.
They had a show to make. They couldn't meet the necessary racist -SORRY! - racial quotas AND meet the schedule. So they cut corners and fired the producer who slowed up production to please his inner-Mark Cuban.
This dude is suing a black guy because he had a job to do and didn't want to let bogus DEI demands prevent him from putting out a product.
He faults management at Al Roker Entertainment for refusing to see DEI as a requirement but rather a "box to be checked in the most expedient manner possible" and as an "impediment to business as usual."
Oh no! Al Roker saw DEI policies for what they really are!
Here's the icing on the woke cake for ya:
The complaint brings claims for violations of New York' [sic] human rights law, which bars discrimination on the basis of race, breach of contract, and negligence, among several others.
They're suing him for breaking human rights law, which bars discrimination on the basis of race because he [checks notes] put out the product WITHOUT considering race?
You cannot make this stuff up, folks!
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