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   A “Mean Girls” meme is roiling a state workers union.   
      
   On July 14, members of Service Employees International Union 503 who   
   work for the state government received an email about bargaining   
   sessions, which included a call for members to wear purple on   
   Wednesdays. It included a meme from the 2004 “Mean Girls” movie with a   
   picture of head mean girl Regina George and a purple-versioned echo of   
   the movie’s popular quote, “On Wednesdays, we wear pink.”   
      
   The problem? Someone had photoshopped the white actress’s face and hair   
   onto the body of Black union leader Ibrahim Coulibaly – a move the   
   union’s African American Caucus and Accountability and Equity Coalition   
   decried as “deeply racist and harmful.” They said the email turned   
   Coulibaly’s image “into a dehumanizing punchline.”   
      
   The union issued an apology headlined “We will do better” the next day   
   and posted a second statement in August to its website. But fallout   
   continued as the union’s equity coalition and African American caucus   
   called for a “larger reckoning” in an online petition and demanded a   
   public town hall and a union-wide equity audit.   
      
   The caucus also called on the union to fire the worker who sent the   
   photo.   
      
   “There’s a systemic problem within our union that led to this traumatic   
   experience,” Nannette Carter-Jafri, president of the African American   
   Caucus, told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “This cannot be swept under the   
   rug and just dismissed as a mistake.”   
      
   https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/08/state-workers-union-under-fir   
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