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*************************This article is not about Fox News but about discrimination or reverse discrimination. Also, it touches on Politically Correct issues.
I would never use the "N" word, even in front of black friends I've known for years. I'll use the word "nigga" which around those friends is more street colloquial acceptable but would never use it in the work environment.
I'm ambivalent on this issue.
"A racial-discrimination suit that involves use of the N-word filed by a white, former Philadelphia news anchor may finally be heading to a federal courtroom.
Tom Burlington, an award-winning TV reporter, claims he was fired by Fox29 for using the N-word -- without malice -- during a newsroom meeting, while black employees were not punished for using the same word at the station
The case has been delayed multiple times. Days before it was supposed to go to trial in January 2011, attorneys for Fox successfully argued that the case should wait until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a similar case. The court ruled in favor of that plaintiff two months later, but Burlington’s suit continued to languish for four more years.
U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick, noting the case had been stalled long enough, wrote last month in a memorandum that “[w]e will not further delay its resolution by permitting ‘piecemeal review and its attendant delays and waste of time.’ ” - Source
Tom Burlington, an award-winning TV reporter, claims he was fired by Fox29 for using the N-word -- without malice -- during a newsroom meeting, while black employees were not punished for using the same word at the station
The case has been delayed multiple times. Days before it was supposed to go to trial in January 2011, attorneys for Fox successfully argued that the case should wait until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a similar case. The court ruled in favor of that plaintiff two months later, but Burlington’s suit continued to languish for four more years.
U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick, noting the case had been stalled long enough, wrote last month in a memorandum that “[w]e will not further delay its resolution by permitting ‘piecemeal review and its attendant delays and waste of time.’ ” - Source
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I would never use the "N" word, even in front of black friends I've known for years. I'll use the word "nigga" which around those friends is more street colloquial acceptable but would never use it in the work environment.
I'm ambivalent on this issue.
