and even factory machinery. because the factory was racially segregated, tesla workers referred to the areas where many black and/or african americans worked as the porch monkey station and referred to the tesla factory as the slave ship or the plantation, where tesla's production leads crack the whip." one black worker heard these racial slurs as often as 50 to 100 times a day. and this, by the way, as shocking and appalling as the allegations are, this is just the latest in a series of racial complaints against tesla. just last week a black woman who worked at another plant sued the company alleging abuse "reminiscent of the jim crow era." while this past october a jury awarded a former worker at the fremont factory more than $136