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To: Dan3 who wrote (158971)	1/26/2003 8:43:39 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1580020

Nice, balanced, article. I didn't find the article unbalanced. It just really didn't say much either way. The York articles discussed the subject in depth, and presented the most honest view of the situation I've seen to date. It wasn't really "unbalanced", but the Barney article had the following two quotes: "In Foxworth, et al. v. Merchants Co., a case involving two Blacks who jointly owned a grocery store, and sought damages under the civil rights laws against a supplier who stopped extending credit, Pickering wrote: "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." and "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." These two quotes, while put forth as evidence of the central argument against Pickering, in fact present nothingness. Pickering says when you fire a black employee it isn't automatically discrimination. Who could argue with THAT? Employees get fired for all kinds of reasons. Pickering also says, in effect, that people often allege civil rights violations merely because they are black. This is an absolute, indisuptable truth. So, if these are all the Left has, I'd say Pickering ought to be shoe-in.