It just occurred to me that I should note BlackAmericaWeb.com requires a free registration, though anyone who's interested knows that by now.
from BlackAmericaWeb.com
A few folks can make it bad for everyone2003/06/30 10:12 PM EDT
By David Person
Just when it seemed safe to take a bite, we learn the Big Apple has another worm in it.
This worm�s name is John Sprizzo. He�s the federal judge in Manhattan who ruled on June 24 that three other worms, former firefighters Jonathan Walters and Robert Steiner and former cop Joseph Locurto, shouldn�t have been fired for wearing blackface and Afro wigs and mocking the brutal lynching of James Byrd during a 1999 Labor Day parade.
Sprizzo believes that the right to free speech allows public servants to be racial bigots. And this means that the three may get their jobs back as well as a hefty amount of back pay.
This would be a horrible miscarriage of justice. Those who are paid by tax dollars have a higher level of responsibility than average citizens, and must be held to a higher level of accountability in both their public and private lives.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 7/1/2003 10:33:01 AM |
Posted by P6 at July 1, 2003 10:33 AM
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