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Federal jury rules it's illegal to use the N-word while at work even if you're black
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 9/3/13 | ap

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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To: Repeal The 17th
And these too....


21 posted on 09/03/2013 12:34:20 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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To: ColdOne

Can I still say “brown bag”?


22 posted on 09/03/2013 12:34:27 PM PDT by albie (re)
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To: ColdOne
But nigga and creepy ass cracka are not racist.

If Saint Treyvon said it, it must be ok.

23 posted on 09/03/2013 12:34:48 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: ColdOne

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.


24 posted on 09/03/2013 12:35:14 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Cram black misbehavior down their throats until they change.)
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To: fwdude

25 posted on 09/03/2013 12:35:58 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Venturer

Personally, I want to charge $47 each time someone uses the word “like” in a sentence, like, more than once.


26 posted on 09/03/2013 12:36:37 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Cram black misbehavior down their throats until they change.)
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To: ColdOne

With all these Speech Codes, we’ll have to be pretty niggardly with vocabulary usage.


27 posted on 09/03/2013 12:37:37 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Cram black misbehavior down their throats until they change.)
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To: GeronL

Yes, you are correct, but it is Nazis, with no apostrophe, not Nazi’s.


28 posted on 09/03/2013 12:38:07 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: EDINVA
"How is it costing the city? “STRIVE Harlem” sounds like an independent company he founded?"

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.

29 posted on 09/03/2013 12:39:55 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: kabumpo

ok, I will try to remember


30 posted on 09/03/2013 12:42:55 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: albie
Can I still say “brown bag”?

Are you kidding? You can't even say Black Hole without a Marxist getting their panties in a wad.

31 posted on 09/03/2013 12:43:27 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: ColdOne

Griftin da griftas.


32 posted on 09/03/2013 12:43:36 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: cuban leaf
It’s unconstitutional, plain and simple.

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

33 posted on 09/03/2013 12:47:18 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Venturer
"My vocabulary contains a hundred degrading slurs. From a-hole to Zebra a two colored horse. Will it cost me if I use any one of them?"

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.

34 posted on 09/03/2013 12:47:23 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ColdOne

Cool!

That will eliminate 99% of all rap “music’!


35 posted on 09/03/2013 12:47:25 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: fwdude

dat be raysis


36 posted on 09/03/2013 12:48:20 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: EDINVA
Where does federal discrimination law supersede the 1st amendment. If you can't say "f*ck," you can't say "f*ck the government," as that subversive Abbie Hoffman used to say.

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.

37 posted on 09/03/2013 12:52:27 PM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: ColdOne

So does the Negro get to pay damages to the Black, or do the NY taxpayers get to pay damages to the Negro?


38 posted on 09/03/2013 12:53:31 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Lera

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.


39 posted on 09/03/2013 12:54:45 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: KittenClaws
LOL! 1st amendment I am obviously having a senior moment.
40 posted on 09/03/2013 12:55:36 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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