Rachel Brothers / Facebook
I guess Ms. Brothers was not Brutha....................
Posted on 08/12/2014 12:00:45 PM PDT by Red Badger
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – A biracial woman has won her case against her former employer – the Black Educators Association – after human rights officials deemed she had been bullied by co-workers for being “not really black enough” to do her job.
Rachel Brothers was hired by the Black Educators Association in 2006 and almost immediately came under fire from subordinate Catherine Collier who, according to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, made it clear she thought Brothers was too young and too light-skinned to represent the race-based organization to the community,
The Chronicle Herald reports.
Other employees joined in on the bullying, with one telling Brothers she should “go work for whitey,” MailOnline.com reports.
But Collier was the instigator of much of the abuse directed at Brothers. It’s worth noting Collier had interviewed for the job that ended up going to Brothers.
Donald Murray, chairman of the Board of Inquiry at the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, determined that staff members who didn’t join in Collier’s bullying made excuses for the behavior or simply shrugged it off.
Leaders of the Black Educators Association fired Brothers less than a year on the job for financial irregularities; the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission found no evidence of any wrongdoing on Brothers’ part and concluded she had been let go because of her too-light skin color, MailOnline.com reports.
“It is clear to me that Ms. Brothers was undermined in part because she was younger than, and not as black as, Ms. Collier thought Ms. Brothers should be,” Murray wrote in his decision.
He added, “In Ms. Collier’s eyes, Ms. Brothers was not really black enough.”
From The Chronicle Herald:
Murray said the evidence led him to conclude that in 2006, the Black Educators Association “accepted colorist thinking.” He defined that as someone who believes the closer a person’s skin tone comes to pure white, the better the chances of getting jobs, accommodations and other opportunities available to “actual ‘white’ people.”
Colorists also think the more visibly black, East Indian, American Indian or Asian a person is, “the greater the potential there will be for discriminatory distinctions to be made based on ‘color,’” Murray wrote.
Murray also faulted Black Educators Association’s former leader Jacqueline Smith-Herriott for being aware of the “colorist and ageist comments being made” against Brothers but failing to take corrective action.
Murray’s commission awarded Brothers nearly $11,000 in damages for injury to her “dignity and self-worth.”
MailOnline.com reports that “the Black Educators Association was founded in 1969 to help Africa Nova Scotian communities.”
Rachel Brothers / Facebook
I guess Ms. Brothers was not Brutha....................
Probably too pretty - MEOW!
They are either Brothers or they are not.
Really? Not black enough?
I wonder if that can work on a certain poser residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave?
Obozo is half white, too.
I don’t know about that, but these cases are becoming more common in the race industry. If they continue, they could just alienate enough of the community to kill off their value as a voting bloc.
But, but, but blacks can’t be racist, right? I love it when these hypocrites eat themselves.
Whitey would have treated her better.
I have to agree, she does not look black in the picture.
But, come on, her name is “Brothers” that should count for something!
And what do you want to bet, if it had been whitey who abused her in this manner she would have gotten a lot more than $11,000-!
So... White people need not apply?
On what planet is that not racist and discriminative?
Why do we need a "Black Educators Association"? How long do you think a "White Educator's Association" would be allowed to stand....either here...or in Canada?
Having an association named thus is inherently racist! Period!
Good for her...... and good riddance to them.
.........mumbling as I leave.....not black enough....b.s.
........rolling my eyes..........
So leftists DO want hiring to be determined by skin color?
FWIW:
“According to Geneticist if the child has a white mother and black father, the child’s race would be considered white; race passes from the mother. This is a very strong social issue with political implecations currently but the long standing view of those who study Genetics disagree with the current assumption involving Obama and other americans with White mothers and fathers of other races—the official science has always considered children are “white” if the mother is white and not of mixed race; conversely this is why white men have black children by black women —the children will be considered “black”.
This is Barrack Obama’s delemma— he is actually “white” by demographic standards— his mother was Caucasian and his father is African American.”
Many American blacks still subscribe to the “one drop” rule
Planet Lefty...................
Obama’s father was African, not African-American.
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