Merrill Waugh Aggrieved

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Mr. Merrill Waugh stated he is the Aggrieved’s first line supervisor. Mr. Waugh said that he was surprised to hear that the Aggrieved filed an EEO complaint against him and that the Aggrieved comments about him were taken out of content. Mr. Waugh stated he did say that President Obama is from Kenya because that is his homeland but he did not say that Obama swings from trees. Mr. Waugh stated he admits to have made black jokes in the past to his staff but he did not mean any harm. He stated that when he made the comment about blacks having their own country, he was simply reading an article about a U.S. Senator named Keith Ellison who suggest blacks should have their own country and that he agreed with the Senator. Mr. Waugh also said

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