Rebecca Allen, a banker at Goldman Sachs, is suing the company for denying her promotions and restricting her access to lucrative accounts because she is black.

Allen, according to Reuters, filed the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday which alleges that the firm steered large accounts (and the bonuses that come along with them) to white colleagues, and that she has been passed up for promotion in favor of these same white co-workers.

Allen has worked within the firm's personal wealth management unit since 2012.

"Simply put, Goldman Sachs does virtually nothing to hire, promote or develop black talent, instead focusing its efforts on retaining and promoting white employees to positions of leadership," Allen stated in the complaint.

Although Allen worked for years without complaint, she said the final straw came for her when a Goldman Sachs partner, Christina Minnis, removed her from an account that she'd worked for three years.

When Allen informed her direct supervisor of Minnis' decision, the supervisor went and talked to Minnis, who proceeded to allegedly make racist and anti-Semitic remarks about Allen.

Allen happens to be Jewish as well as black.

In the lawsuit, Minnis is included in the list of defendants.

Allen's legal team believes that she may not be the only non-white Goldman Sachs employee that has been mistreated due to race, and hope that others will join her lawsuit.

"We can expose what is really happening behind the closed doors with regard to the denial of opportunity for entrance and advancement for qualified black individuals," Allen's lawyers said.

Other employees have a suit with the bank in motion already, although it is based on gender, not racial, discrimination.

Goldman Sachs has released statements denying both suits' accusations:

"Our success depends on our ability to maintain a diverse employee base and we are focused on recruiting, retaining and promoting diverse professionals at all levels."

Allen, like the female employees suing Goldman, says that she too has been discriminated against for being a woman, but wants her suit to focus on race and religion.

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