Posted on 08/07/2023 1:54:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Black man is taking legal action after claiming that he was harassed and racially discriminated against by his supervisor while working at a California university, leading to him experiencing “panic attacks,” heightened fear, anxiety and other health issues, court documents allege.
Court documents show Vaughn is seeking damages due to the institution’s failure to protect him from a hostile work environment.
“Ms. Rubin’s repeated race-based harassment of Mr. Vaughn and other non-white SFSU employees would be indefensible anywhere, but especially at an educational institution where diversity, inclusivity, and respect… should be upheld,” Rubin’s attorney Arash Sadat told the San Franciso Standard.
Per the lawsuit, Vaughn started working at the SFSU in 2001 and was promoted during his tenure. In 2016, he became an academic adviser at the school’s Advising Resource Center. Three years later, Rubin, identified as a white woman, became the center’s director in August 2019.
That same month one of Vaughn’s employees informed him that Rubin “referred to him as a runaway slave” due to being absent from work, according to his claim.
Vaughn reported Rubin’s remarks to a professor at the school who alleged that Rubin had a portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee displayed in her office, per the lawsuit. In the months afterward, Vaughn continued to address Rubin’s actions and racist comments directed at her employees, the suit says, but she brushed it off.
The lawsuit also alleges that Rubin began telling Vaughn to check in with her upon arrival to work, but his colleagues were not given that requirement. Vaughan repeatedly tried to report his and his colleagues’ experiences and the “runaway slave” comment, but no action was taken, the complaint claims.
The lawsuit says that Rubin is also accused of touting Confederacy images as “leadership” and declined a request to acknowledge the murder of George Floyd —killed by a Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer during an arrest — in the center’s newsletter. Instead, the lawsuit states, “she preferred that the newsletter focuses on ‘puppies and other happy things,’ yet she was able to make space for a ‘fun fact’ and iced tea preferences in relation to the Mason-Dixon line.”
Yeah, riiiiiiiight.
Smells like lies.
Hoax
Probably of total bullDorkbama stuff: 99.999999999%
Not possible AT ANY DATE in history up to and through today. A black man in California could never be a runaway slave or claimed to be. This person did not do that, and THIS is another Jussie Smolett make believe victim actor.
That’s right.
Paging Jussie Smollett, please pick up the courtesy telephone at the front desk.
A B lack man is taking legal action
Three years later, Rubin, identified as a w hite woman,
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Nothing like a bit of racism to put the pop back in some lame story.
The original article page.
https://atlantablackstar.com/author/tardreyddm1/
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Laz?
It is so easy to blame someone else for your problems.
Haven’t seen him...
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The shiftless SOB.
At San Francisco State University? No way!
Hmmmm...why is it I automatically disbelieve stories like this?
Sounds like a disgruntled employee who played by his own rules until Rubin came along. He was probably always late and had numerous absences, and his complaining about her racism towards employees is a bogus claim. Those employees need to come forth with dates and the facts of this so called racist treatment. And, her having a loyalty to anything confederate is not against the law - he needs to visit the south sometime.
IDENTIFIED as a white woman? WTF?
"identified as a white woman"
I’m calling “shenanigans”!!
Ummm ... something is terribly wrong in that paragraph.
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