Exposing Anti-White Harassment + Discrimination in US Media Companies
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Wasserman
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teamwass.com
TYPE: Global Marketing, Representation, and Sales Company
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS: Providence Equity Partners, RedBird Capital Partners, Madrone Capital Partners
OWNER: Casey Wasserman (controlling majority), Investors
SUBSIDIARIES: -
REVENUE: $676.3 million
HEADCOUNT: 3,300
55 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
+1 212 704 0488
info@teamwass.com
From the standpoint of the EEOC, federal law, and New York State's Human Rights Law (NYSHRL § 296), Wasserman's DEI initiatives, spearheaded by Black woman Senior Director of Inclusion, Equality and Diversity Lindsay LaBennett, helped by SVP Global People Development Mary Spencer, and ultimately overseen by CEO Casey Wasserman, raise concerns regarding potential discrimination and harassment against White employees. LaBennett's stated focus on addressing "inequities"* for "marginalized communities," coupled with initiatives like a recruitment partnership with the Minorities in Sports Network,** could indicate preferential treatment based on race in hiring, potentially disadvantaging White applicants in violation of anti-discrimination laws. Furthermore, educational efforts centered on issues impacting specific communities, driven by LaBennett's stated motivations linked to Black Lives Matter,*** risk fostering a hostile work environment for White employees if these programs promote concepts that implicitly or explicitly blame or stereotype them based on their race. LaBennett has been instrumental in developing DEI initiatives at Wasserman, including creating the DEI Council and being named DE&I Advocate of the Year at the Campaign US Agency Awards 2025. She emphasizes the importance of equity, stating, "Paying Black people fairly and giving them the opportunities they deserve." She views her mission as solving “systemic racism” and helping Black creators, saying, “Systemic racism cannot be solved by the advertising industry alone... there’s still a disparity in leadership roles for Black creators.” Mary Spencer is credited, along with LaBennett, in establishing the initial DEI Council. While the existence and content of mandatory bias training remain unclear, such programs, if implemented and perceived as targeting White employees with negative racial narratives, could constitute harassment under EEOC and NYSHRL standards. Similarly, Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), if exclusively or disproportionately supporting non-White racial groups without comparable resources for White employees, could be seen as discriminatory in the allocation of company resources. The explicit focus on race-conscious initiatives under LaBennett's leadership and Wasserman's oversight creates potential legal vulnerabilities for claims of reverse discrimination and racial harassment.
*DEI "equity" involves prioritizing certain racial, gender, or identity groups with targeted resources or opportunities to ensure equal outcomes at the cost of fairness and individual merit. DEI’s equity focus shares some similarities with communism and socialism in its group-based, redistributive approach, and with totalitarianism in ideological coercion.
**In 2025, non-Hispanic Whites are a minority in Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Georgia, with several other states like Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Arizona approaching majority-minority status. At an estimated 12.6% of the global population, White people are a global minority. MSQ is incorrect in viewing White people as an overarching majority.
***Black Lives Matter, based on Marxist thought, calls for the abolition of the nuclear family, police protection, prisons and capitalism, and views Whiteness as inherently oppressive and harmful. To BLM leader Melina Abdullah, Whiteness is “a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which ‘white’ people have a particular susceptibility.” While BLM sees “white supremacy” and police violence as the key obstacles for Black Americans, it says nothing about single parenthood, failing grades in school, or crime, including the stark disparity in homicide rates between races in the US (Black men are over four times more likely to be charged with murder than White men, despite being one-fifth as numerous. Said another way, Black men commit murder at 20x the rate as White men). Crime, regardless of who or what race commits it, brings heavier policing, incarceration, and poverty. Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving Blacks and Whites, Blacks commit 85% and Whites commit 15%. In short, while passionate and filled with good intentions and love for Black people, Black Lives Matter is objectively a delusional, racist organization—with a feel-good mantra—that fails to address key factors around Black policing and poverty.
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