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