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Edit: I'm the driver (Mr. Downs)

Dear Mr. Downs,

First of all my apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this.
This is my first day back in the mill since your email was received by
GP Corporate in Atlanta and referred to me here at the mill in Toledo,
Oregon.

Thank you for alerting us to the offensive material that you found on a
bulletin board in the driver waiting area here at the Toledo mill.
Please be assured that we will not tolerate any such material (and that we
will discipline anyone found responsible for posting such material up
to and including termination) and that the material has been removed.
We share your disgust with such material.

We have commenced an investigation to try to determine who may be
responsible; and we have re-emphasized with our Toledo Employees our zero
tolerance policy for such actions.

Again, thank you for alerting us to this; and our sincere apologies for
your having been exposed to it.

If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Tom Picciano, Communications Manager
Georgia-Pacific Toledo Pulp & Paper Operations
Toledo, Oregon
541-336-8202


-----Original Message -----

Sent: Mon Jun 5 13:42:03 EDT 2006
To: [email protected]
Subject: Georgia-Pacific Corporate Social Responsibility Contact Us
(www.gp.com)

I am a truck driver. I recently picked up a load at your
Toledo, Oregon plant. As I was being loaded I was told to wait in the
driver waiting area. On the bulletin board was stapled a mulitple-page
anti-immigrant screed that made my blood boil.

I am a native-born citizen of caucasian descent. This document was
highly offensive to me. I can imagine its effect upon the many immigrant
drivers that no doubt pick up at that plant.

This ridiculous diatribe couldn't have been written by anyone with
more than an eighth grade education, and was full of lies.
But it certainly didn't fail to hit all the hot buttons: We don't care
how you did things where you came from, learn English and stop
acting all foreign, this is a Christian nation founded by Christians,
If you don t like it you can leave, several others.

This kind of inflamatory rhetoric (of the terminally stupid) is the
default setting of cruel people who desperately need an inferior to
bully. We can pity them, we can educate them, but we cannot allow
them free reign to damage others as they damn well please.

Please have this removed. I hope you will discipline those responsible.

Thank you.