Posted on 09/03/2013 12:07:24 PM PDT by ColdOne
A federal jury has ruled that use of the 'N-word' is discriminatory workplace behavior, even when used among blacks.
A black New York City employment agency worker who was the target of a slur-laced rant by her black boss has been awarded $250,000 in compensatory damages by a Manhattan federal jury.
The case against Rob Carmona and the employment agency he founded, STRIVE East Harlem, gave legal airing to what some see as a double standard surrounding the word: It's a degrading slur when uttered by whites but can be used at times with impunity among blacks.
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Can I still say “brown bag”?
If Saint Treyvon said it, it must be ok.
Is “Creepy” “A$$” or “Cracka” illegal or protected speech?
It’s so hard to keep up now that the Bill Of Rights is Color-Seeing.
Personally, I want to charge $47 each time someone uses the word “like” in a sentence, like, more than once.
With all these Speech Codes, we’ll have to be pretty niggardly with vocabulary usage.
Yes, you are correct, but it is Nazis, with no apostrophe, not Nazi’s.
You're right. I scanned it and saw the words "New York City" and jumped to a bad conclusion. It is a private firm. That's better.
ok, I will try to remember
Are you kidding? You can't even say Black Hole without a Marxist getting their panties in a wad.
Griftin da griftas.
Which Supreme Court is going to say that? Not the one who recently called Obamacare a tax. Our system of checks and balances has been compromised
It might if you use it in a business setting on an employee.
"Why should the word Nigga cost someone $250.000 when jigaboo , cracker ,Honkey ,or Jitterbug costs them nothing? Who decides the cost of each word?/ This is BS."
That, I agree with. I see no justification for a $250,000 award, just for a name calling. Unless there was more to the case.
And what about only slightly degrading terms, like "whiner", or "lazy" or "not a team player" or "no initiative". Words that could easily end up in a formal job performance review.
The balance of freedom of speech vs discriminatory or abusive work relationships and workplace harassment is a precarious one.
Cool!
That will eliminate 99% of all rap “music’!
dat be raysis
And "STRIVE Harlem" sounds like an NGO, probably one of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, funded by state and/or federal government.
When these were snaked out in North Carolina people found out these kinds of little launderettes were costing the taxpayers nearly a billion every year.
When some legislators claimed they were fire departments, and such, someone finally got a list. Top of that list was a PO Box called "101 Black Men of Charlotte."
To this day, no one knows what that NGO was supposed to be.
So does the Negro get to pay damages to the Black, or do the NY taxpayers get to pay damages to the Negro?
Where does the second amendment enter into this?
Since when can a word be illegal?
This is not the same as yelling FIRE! in a crowded theater. Nothing prevents a person from simply using the word “fire” in a theater, after all.
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