Racism returns with a vengeance -- "It made me feel small".

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Central Parking manager's racial discrimination suit says taunts preceded his firing
By Felisa Cardona
The Denver Post
Posted: 11/12/2010 01:00:00 AM MST


For 27 years, Marcellus Roberts worked as a Central Parking manager, regularly reminding his employees that if they worked hard and lived honestly, they would one day reap the benefits.

But in 2006, Roberts, 58, says his faith in a strong work ethic was shaken when other Central Parking managers began to refer to him as "boy" and directed racial epithets at him. In October 2008, the longtime manager with a spotless record and a personnel file full of positive letters from customers and former bosses was accused of stealing $30 from a parking lot money box. He was fired without appeal.

In a federal racial discrimination lawsuit working toward trial, Roberts says fellow managers excluded him from training, lunches and golf tournaments because he is black. When he complained to human resources about the incidents, he says, he was ignored.

"It made me feel small," he said through tears in a recent interview. "But I loved my job, and I had a family and I had to work."

The rest of the article is worth the read.
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_16591395

Folks, all oppression is related and all links to other oppression. We MUST stand up to this stuff... it is increasing!

[fascisthunter]

1. Thanks to the Right wing neo-Nazi media

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3. "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing ." Edmund Burke

[somone]

2. Cruelty to minorities and the poor is in vogue

thanks to the GOP/Tea Party and their enablers

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6. Agreed, but please see my post #3. When we set boundaries, we always have to remember

to go back and keep maintaining them.

Yes, Civil Rights has had a positive effect. But unless we keep insisting it be constantly updated, it will slip like this, and you can be sure there are those who will keep up the slippage.

It is up to US to keep the country from going backwards.

[MadMaddie]

16. You are correct!

Americans have a habit of becoming complacent and forget of the horrors. I also point to poor Leadership in his work place, they enabled this environment to occur.

The Right has been attacking EEOC since Reagan and this is the result.

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17. Good is two steps forward and one step back... almost always.

I was talking with a younger man today, and he said in high school they often used the slur words for gay. Then they were told that those words were slurs and were offensive, so they stopped using them. Now he noticed they are back in vogue, and said, "What's up with that? Why are kids using those words again?"

Sadly, it seems like each generation has to learn and relearn.

However, as I said to him... something has really changed. There is now a significant portion of the population, especially the younger ones, who DELIGHT in hurting others. If they find out a term is offensive, they will use it with glee.

Sociopathic society.

We must do all we can to make it NOT OK to injure people with words!

[MadMaddie]

18. That's just it

"We have to make it Not Ok to injure people physically or with words"!

Faux has moved this country towards the path of acceptance of cruelty. Civility is a dirty word to them.

I believe that we that believe in civility and doing the right thing outnumber the Faux terrorist.

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20. You're right. I also believe that we outnumber the stone-hearted ones.

Its just that we don't always stand up to the socipathology.

I think we need to do two things simultaneously.... give each other lots of warm fuzzies, and speak out against the cruelty.

How many people witnessed what was being done to that poor man at his job and said NOTHING?

We must also develop strong spines!

[readmoreoften]

4. K&R

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7. Thanks!

I wish it was more important to DUers. :(

[blondeatlast]

5. Appalling. There is no respect for human dignity anymore. May Mr. Roberts prevail. nt

[Starry Messenger]

8. k & r

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12. Thanks! I hope this gets loud public outcry!

:hi:

[laughingliberal]

9. K & R

:cry:

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11. Yes, indeed. That photo of him..... so very upsetting.

What his whole family must be going through.

This whole thing deserves a demonstration of support...very public!

[laughingliberal]

15. Yes. It is very upsetting.

It is very reminiscent of the kind of inhumanity I saw on display in Memphis in the 1960's. How in the hell can we have failed, as a society, to evolve any further than this after 50 years?

What kind of people can impose this type of indignity on a fellow human?

[HughBeaumont]

10. k & R. The comments on the newspaper's site are horrendous.

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13. I avoid the comments section. They are usually really creepy.

Thanks for the K&R! :hi:

[WingDinger]

14. I have been forced to threaten lawsuit to protect others several times, any of which is blackball.

[marmar]

19. Repetez en anglais, s'il vous plait?

:shrug:

[WillyT]

21. K & R !!!

:mad::nuke::mad:

:banghead:

Thank you for posting this.

:hi:

:nuke:

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23. I really don't like aggravating people, but sometimes we really need to know what is building up.

Only in that way can we prepare ourselves for taking action, and when stuff like this happens locally, we need to be ready to take action.

I see from your emoticons that it was frustrating and aggravating to you, and I'm sorry for that. My hope is that we will take that aggravation and let it be the engine to motivate us!

[Blue_Tires]

22. hope he gets a good attorney and sues them for everything...

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24. I hope he has the support to get a good outcome. Let it be a warning to other businesses of what

not to even think about doing to employees!