Federal Magistrate: White People Not Protected Against Discrimination Under Civil Rights Act
My first suit against the NYPD, for stopping & frisking me for being a white guy in a black neighborhood has a motion for summary judgment pending, filed by the city. A motion for summary judgment filed by the defense means basically “under the undisputed facts we know so far, no reasonable jury could find us liable, so please dismiss this action without a trial.” When complicated motions are filed in federal court, typically the U.S. District Judge will have a magistrate judge (basically, an assistant judge) read through it and write up a report on whether or not the motion should be granted. The parties have a chance to explain to the district judge why the magistrate is wrong, if they’d like, before the district judge makes a ruling.
The biggest sticking point in this case is that the city “can’t find” the cops who stopped & frisked me…
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I heard something years ago….there are two kinds of hate.
1) Hate is anger turned in on yourself and then protecting it onto others; in other words…some people just don’t want to deal with “their own hate, rage and anger and take it out on others.
2) Then there is anger which comes from experiencing or watching injustice happen to others due to hate, and rage.
Please think about this, okay? IF you have the opportunity to Google a man named “Gerren Lyles (or Liles)”. He is a black poet in NY that my family has known for years. He wrote a small book “The ‘Road to Damascus.” Basically, he explains the Black rage and hate? Blacks do NOT love themselves and protect their anger and rage OUT at the whites to make it all better.
We can’t. We tried through Affirmative Action. I am an ol’ gal, and have had many many experiences from that time of Affirmative Action in teaching the black population their jobs…so they could climb in their chosen professions.
I worked for the City of Dallas in the Department of Planning and Development. I was a permanent temp and floated all around the departments. The Opening came up for a Permanent person in the job I was in as an Administrative Assistant to the Director. There were 57 women in the department and only 3 of those were white.
They really didn’t want the job because it “wasn’t UNION”..but they didn’t want a white woman to have it either.
I had learned to carry a hand-held pocket recorder because I had been threatened so many times. I was pulled off in a stairwell and slammed against a brick wall. She had her elbow at my throat and a double-long form of acrylic nail jabbing me between the eyes warning NOT to apply for the job.
I had to replace all of my tires on my car twice due to them being slashed. Finally I started parking two blocks away and walked at night to get to my car (carrying a gun in my coat pocket because I had been threatened so many times.
I finally did get her…I had the audio tape and took it to human resources….she was NOT fired… she had to go to counseling for an entire “2 hours.” That was it! TWO HOURS.
We trained them. I invited each one to lunch at one time or another and each one refused “UNLESS” she needed something from me.
What kind of authority figure would say such an insane statement.
Wellll, actually, for the times, that is more than likely true.
We all have had experiences where we, as whites, were discriminated against and no one said a word. I have an entire file full of my own experiences working with black people at the City of Dallas (Dept. of Planning and Development) as well as the police dept when I worked there.