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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (158943)1/25/2003 9:14:47 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1579988
 
"When an adverse action is taken affecting one covered by [civil rights] laws, there is a tendency on the part of the person affected to spontaneously react that discrimination caused the action. All of us have difficulty accepting the fact that we sometimes create our own problems."

Never was a truer statement uttered. Look at Rodney King.

In Seeley v. City of Hattiesburg, a case involving a Black firefighter who was terminated, and also sought damages under the protection of civil rights laws, Pickering wrote: "The fact that a Black employee is terminated does not automatically indicate discrimination...This case has all the hallmarks of a case that is filed simply because an adverse employment decision was made in regard to a protected minority."

What, on earth, is wrong with this statement? Hell, who in their right mind could disagree with it? It doesn't help the cause of black people when firing one automatically results in the employer losing in a discrimination suit.

You ought to be embarrassed to raise such a weak argument in support of naming this man a "racist". You, who talk about needing to know "what happened in the case", would take a couple of out of context quotes (that appear, in both instances, to be inarguably factual) and assert they comprise some kind of support for the idea of calling this man a racist.

He has been borked. Bush is trying to right the wrong that was done by the Democrats. I hope like hell the facts of the Pickering nomination are brought before the American public who will readily understand the disgusting actions of the Democrats in this matter. Sickening, political behavior -- the politics of personal destruction. The ONLY thing a damned Democrat knows how to do.
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