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Regardless, the furor shows that the wounds and the battles of the Civil Rights movement are still with us. As we continue to fight racism, let’s hope that one day the n-word will lose all of its power. Let’s hope that one day, calling someone a “nigger” will be about as pointless and silly as is calling someone a “commie” today...
...employees would not be laid off. “A committee of labor and management representatives are looking into this entire layoff process,” he said. He said although he could not comment on the employees’ charges, the University takes allegations of discrimination and racism “very seriously.” “FAS Human Resources will vigorously investigate any complaints or allegations of discrimination it receives, and will take appropriate actions,” he wrote in an e-mail. It’s possible, though, that the employees’ positions...
Thanks to an amendment to University policy passed in April, gender identity bias has joined racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination as expressly prohibited at Harvard...
...trial that declared him not guilty: the judge, a fool and incompetent whose love of publicity turned the trial into a circus; the defense lawyers, not one of whom could have doubted the man's guilt yet who cynically played on the jury's ignorance and latent racism to win a disgraceful verdict; the prosecutors, total incompetents who bungled a gimmie, then shamelessly cashed in afterwards; the media that turned the brutal deaths of two innocents into TV's first reality-show soap opera...
...Worst of all was the jury, whose perverse verdict was the most brazen and lawless act of nullification since the heyday of Strom Thurmond. Sworn to uphold law, they decided instead to hold a private referendum on racism in the L.A. Police Department...