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iStock/CatEyePerspective(NEW YORK) Owen Diaz, the former Tesla employee who sued the electric car company over allegations of racism, is opening up about his experience. "[Tesla] decided not to follow through, they decided to kill investigations," Diaz said on "Good Morning America" Wednesday. "Tesla, as a company, as a whole, needs to wake up. You know you can't keep treating workers like this." Diaz was hired as a contract elevator operator at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California. He worked there from June 2015 to July 2016. Diaz claimed fellow workers called him the "n-word," was told to "go back to Africa" and saw racist and derogatory images in the factory's bathroom stalls. Diaz said he complained to Tesla about his treatment but his supervisors failed to stop the abuse. He left the company four years ago, filing a lawsuit in October 2017 that claimed "Tesla's progressive image was a facade papering ov

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