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Corkscrew logic palooza

Oh, I just can’t wait to read the opinions when this one gets decided!


Trial set for firing over use of ‘n’ word

No, no, don’t jump to conclusions just based on a headline. Read on!

A federal jury will be asked to decide whether it is acceptable for an African American person, but not a white person, to use the “n” word in a workplace.

U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick has ruled that former Fox29 reporter-anchor Tom Burlington’s lawsuit against the station, claiming a double standard and alleging that he was the victim of racial discrimination, may go to trial. However, Surrick denied Burlington’s claim of a hostile work environment.

Burlington, who is white, was fired after using the “n” word during a June 2007 staff meeting at which reporters and producers were discussing reporter Robin Taylor’s story about the symbolic burial of the word by the Philadelphia Youth Council of the NAACP.

Burlington, who began work at the station in 2004 and is now working as a real estate agent, was suspended within days and fired after an account of the incident was published in the Philadelphia Daily News. He alleges that he “was discriminated against because of his race,” according to court documents. He claims in his lawsuit that at least two African American employees at Fox29 had used the word in the workplace and were not disciplined.

The dispute began after Taylor, who is white, used the phrase the “n” word during the 2007 staff meeting. She said participants at the burial had said the full word “at least a hundred times or more,” according to court records.

“Does this mean we can finally say the word n-?” Burlington asked colleagues, according to depositions.

Nicole Wolfe, a producer and one of the three African American employees among the nine people at the meeting, exclaimed: “I can’t believe you just said that!”

Burlington told Taylor that although he did not necessarily expect her to use the word in her story, he thought that doing so gave the story more credence.

Burlington says he used the word only once and approached several attendees after the meeting to explain himself. The Daily News account said he had used the word more than a dozen times.

Surrick, in denying Fox’s request to have the suit dismissed, said that federal courts had not determined whether a double standard, if true in this case, would violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which deals with equal opportunity in employment.

So “the n-word” popped up in conversation both as ‘ “the n-word” ‘ and as ‘“n-"’, the, um, long form, of the term ... at a press meeting about covering a story where that word was symbolically buried, yet, buried or not, managed to be heard more than 100 times at that very symbolic event itself. And the debate in the press meeting was over whether the, um, long form, should be used in the coverage of the story itself to lend, um, journalistic credence ... or possibly enhance the irony that said term didn’t stay buried for even a millisecond. And when the white guy actually says, um, the long form, um - which the paper is too PC or too timid to even print - the guy gets fired?

I have got to take some time off to go to the court room down there in Philly. To see if they can get a conviction, or whatever this suit is trying for, without actually saying “the n-word” in it’s, um, long form, during a trial about using the word itself ... and whether Free Speech and Equal Rights can be trumped by Equal Employment in theory, but Political Correctness in actuality, and watch a judge find that part of the language itself is illegal (or at least career ending punishable) for members of the vast majority to use, but sacrosanct in any and all contexts, hateful or otherwise, for one small section of society.

Sounds to me like there will be a n-word in the woodpile over this one!

Idiots.


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