Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, white nurses called him and other Black employees “boy.” Management ignored two large swastikas painted on a storage room wall. And for six months, he regularly rode an elevator with the N-word carved into a wall.
Collier ultimately sued the hospital, but lower courts dismissed his case. Now, however, at a private conference Thursday, the Supreme Court will consider for the first time whether to hear his case. Focusing on the elevator graffiti, Collier is asking the justices to decide whether a single use of the N-word in the workplace can create a hostile work environment, giving an employee the ability to pursue a case under Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Already, the court’s two newest members, both appointed by President Donald Trump, are on record with seemingly different views. The case is also a test of whether the justices are willing to wade into the ongoing, complex conversations about race happening nationwide. The public could learn as soon as Monday whether the court will take Collier’s case.
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This is nutty. And you left wing idiots want to pack the courts?
If calling someone “boy” is so offensive, then I should be able to sue dozens of black people who had called me a white boy. Also, the black folks themselves commonly refer to each other as the n word; and I, being white and Jewish, had a dubious honor of being referred to as an “honorary” n word on a few occasions. So, are “boy” and the n word are indeed offensive, or is it all just a manipulation by some unscrupulous black people looking to cash in?!
Regarding the hospital’s responsibility even if those words were indeed offensive to the plaintiff: Did those nurses call everyone a boy in a southern fashion? If they did, then it was obviously not directed as a racist epithet. Did the plaintiff report those nurses to HR in a timely fashion, or did he “suddenly” remember it years later at the time of his lawsuit? Did the hospital carve the n word into the elevator wall?! How is the hospital responsible for vandalism crimes committed by someone else?! A hospital is not in the law enforcement business altogether; let the police find the vandal who damaged the hospital’s property. Besides, why do I have a strong suspicion that the swastikas and the n word were carved in by the plaintiff himself.
You sound like those who accuse us of drawing nazi graffiti so that we can scream antisemitism.
3:48, and you sound like a typical white liberal who never had anything to do with the street blacks, always living in the safety of suburbs.
The fact of the matter is that nobody in their right mind wants to start up with blacks since after 1960’s or so, because of the likely black violent response and the more recent governmental two tier system of “hate crimes” which is applied exclusively in blacks/muslim/pervert favor. I might add, that “hate crimes” against blacks are charged very aggressively, almost to a point that you’ll get charged with a hate crime if you as much as look at a black person a wrong way. Therefore, since actual racist crimes against black are very uncommon in contemporary America, you should always suspect any reports of a noose or a racist sign, as indeed there were numerous cases of black individuals who reported those and were later found to have fabricated the entire thing.
Unfortunately, it is the opposite case by the Jews. There is a street reputation that Jews will never fight back, and that the Jews are an easy target. The only time when the persecutors charge antisemites with “hate crime” is when there are much bigger charges of murder or such, so that the “hate crime” charges don’t make any difference. In light of the above, the anti-semitic crimes are indeed very common in the contemporary US, hence any reports of such crimes are not to be assumed a hoax.
Why do you assume that the boy who is suing possesses adequate spelling abilities to carve the offensive word somewhere in the elevator?