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Demovictory9

(32,453 posts)
Sat Aug 7, 2021, 03:33 AM Aug 2021

Texas Financial advisor Eileen Cure fired for 'refusing to interview black applicants'

Financial advisor fired for 'refusing to interview black applicants'



A Texas financial advisor has been fired after a TikTok star shamed her in a video for allegedly not wanting to interview black job applicants and is accused of saying it's a 'complete waste of my time.'


A purported leaked internal communication where Eileen Cure allegedly said, 'I specifically said no blacks' - meaning no black applicants - was given to TikToker Denise Bradly, whose 'aunkkaren0' account has over one million followers.

'I'm not a prejudice person, but our clients are 90 percent white, and I need to cater to them so that interview was a complete waste of my time,' Cure, president of the Texas-based Cure and Associates, is accused of saying.

Cure was an affiliated advisor for LPL Financial, which is the largest independent broker-dealer in the US. She was fired after the video surfaced.

The company said in a statement that it investigated the claims before making the decision to cut the strings.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/financial-advisor-fired-for-refusing-to-interview-black-applicants/ar-AAN1ku5?ocid=msedgntp


The terminated financial advisor swung back in a statement to Investment News, saying the video was 'false and defamatory' and that she is exploring her legal options.

'The entirety of this situation is based upon a TikTok video published by an unrelated individual without press credentials or affiliations using an unauthenticated photo of an alleged internal office chat without validation or context of any content,' Cure told Investment News.

'This published photo and along with subsequent related false and defamatory materials and statements, which have incited false commentary and threats of violence and bodily harm toward me and my staff and acts which are being investigated as criminal in nature, are being publicized on a social media platform by a third party who is not related or in any way affiliated with me or my office.'


Cure's husband joined the PR war and reportedly threatened to kill the TikToker.

'Tell that Tiktoker to come down here to Texas, and I'll put her in a grave,' Cure's husband allegedly said, according to a Thursday tweet by 'auntkaren0.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9869177/Financial-advisor-fired-allegedly-saying-didnt-want-interview-black-applicants.html

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Response to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Skittles

(153,156 posts)
3. she assumes all white people are as racist as she is
Sat Aug 7, 2021, 03:43 AM
Aug 2021

that's an issue with a lot of conservative assholes

sir pball

(4,741 posts)
7. Gonna disagree; she may well have been correct about her clientele
Sat Aug 7, 2021, 08:21 AM
Aug 2021

I just visited my wife's family in central Louisiana, partly to meet the extended clan for the first time*, and I can say with absolute certitude that an agency of any sort that only employed Whites would be a smashing success in Catahoula Parish. It is literally right next to Jena ('member?), after all. Of course it goes without saying it's absolutely wrong and she's getting everything she deserves, but I don't fault her logic.

* - the main reason was to visit my MIL who just had to be moved into a care facility, and help my FIL with the whole situation...if it hadn't been a crisis we wouldn't have been anywhere near that Petri dish of a state.

Celerity

(43,333 posts)
5. Cure's husband joined the PR war and reportedly threatened to kill the TikToker.
Sat Aug 7, 2021, 05:06 AM
Aug 2021

That will do wonders for their already dodgy AF lawsuit threats, especially as the TikToker is black.





Generic Brad

(14,274 posts)
8. I guess expanding her market is not desirable?
Sat Aug 7, 2021, 08:38 AM
Aug 2021

Excluding investors based on skin color or race is a shitty business plan. Minorities are collectively the majority.

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