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Stephen Bright's Commentary on Race

By Steve Hall

"Term 'boy' is proof of racial animus," is the title of his OpEd in today's Fulton County Daily Report.  Bright is president of the Southern Center for Human Rights and teaches at Yale Law.The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals? third ruling that a white supervisor calling black men "boy"?as in "Boy, you better get going" and "hey, boy"?is not evidence of racial animus was issued last week by Judges Edward E. Carnes and William H. Pryor Jr. in an unsigned, unpublished opinion. Carnes and Pryor are white men and alumni of the Alabama attorney general's office.The third judge on the panel, a visiting senior district judge from Ohio appointed by President Ronald Reagan, dissented. He would have upheld a jury verdict finding that Tyson Foods discriminated against a black man, John Hithon, in not promoting him to position as a shift manager at Tyson?s chicken processing plant in Gadsden, Ala...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 25, 2010 (boomark / email).