Racist Anti-Obama Emails Draw Weak Response From Universities

[Hissyspit]

From blogger Legal Schnauzer:

http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2009/02/anti-obama-e-mail-draws-reprimand-in.html

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Anti-Obama E-Mail Draws a Reprimand in Pennsylvania

Apparently it is perfectly fine to use a work computer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) for transmitting a racist e-mail that mocks President Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats.

But officials in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, take a dim view of such activity.

Jeri Minnick-Dukes, an administrative secretary in the police department in Mifflin County, received a written reprimand for sending the e-mail "Night Befo Crizzmus" to a co-worker.

The reprimand is expected to be the only punishment in the Pennsylvania case. But not everyone is happy about that. Bernard Chapman, an African-American who used to work as a police trooper in Pennsylvania, said Minnick-Dukes should lose her job.

“To only place a letter of reprimand in her file is not sufficient. To demean the President-elect of the United States solely because he is African-American is an egregious violation of protocol here,” Chapman said.

In the UAB case, financial associate Ashla Jana' Campbell used state-owned equipment to send the same poem. UAB president Carol Garrison has failed to respond to interview requests, and it remains unclear if Campbell has received any discipline at all.

A source told Legal Schnauzer that UAB officials have known that Campbell sent the racist e-mail since early January.

I have to give the folks in Pennsylvania credit. They have been upfront about the issue, while UAB leaders have gone into hiding.

Interesting that a small community in Pennsylvania can react to a problem with honesty and openness while leaders at major public university stick their heads in a hole.

Of course, UAB officials don't want to touch this subject because they know they fired an employee, me, simply for expressing progressive views--on my own time. Meanwhile, they have employees actually violating university policy by sending racist and homophobic messages on state-owned equipment, and nothing much happens to them.

No wonder UAB officials go into hiding when such issues surface.

[T Wolf]

1. Also a difference between blue PA and dark-dark red Alabama, Are you surprised?

[Skittles]

4. careful with that

I work in Texas and I'd be fired if I emailed racist shit like that

[BlooInBloo]

2. Um, it's *Alabama*. They kill little black girls in churches there.

[alexandria]

3. Do you have a link about the killing of black girls?nt

[mix]

5. here you go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing

[alexandria]

7. That was 63...Do you have anything modern?

Or will you keep digging up the past?

[BlooInBloo]

8. hahahaha!

[mix]

9. how could this possibly be the past?

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past." ~~ William Faulkner

[BlooInBloo]

11. It's just their way of saying they don't give a fuck.

[firedupdem]

10. wow...nice way to dismiss it. like swatting a fly? Jeez

[BlooInBloo]

12. It's all good. Now, he's only using Loud Noises to try to hide his idiocy...

which he himself exposed.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Wow. I knew we were a stupid fucking country, but apparently I grossly underestimated it.

EDIT: My apologies for the RADICAL underestimate. I won't make that mistake again.

[FLyellowdog]

13. Check your history...horrendous!!!