[MyHouse!]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission yesterday announced its largest-ever settlement for an individual racial discrimination case -- $2.5 million -- against Lockheed Martin of Bethesda.

Lockheed agreed to pay Charles Daniels, a black aviation electrician who said he was subjected to racial epithets and threatened with bodily harm by white employees while repairing military aircraft.

Daniels, 45, "was the target of persistent verbal abuse by coworkers and a supervisor whose racial slurs and offensive language included calling him the N-word, and saying, 'We should do to blacks what Hitler did to the Jews,' and if the South had won then this would be a better country," the EEOC said in a statement. "Daniels was also subjected to multiple physical threats, such as lynching and other death threats after he reported the harassment."

The alleged harassment took place while Daniels worked at Lockheed plants in Florida, Washington state and Hawaii.

The EEOC said Lockheed "failed to discipline the harassers and instead allowed the discrimination against Daniels to continue unabated during his two-year tenure even though the company was aware of the unlawful conduct."


EEOC attorneys said that a Lockheed human resources director said that she investigated Daniels's complaints and confirmed that racial comments were made. But the director dismissed them, saying, "Boys will be boys."

Daniels saw it differently.

"It was humiliating to be called names," said Daniels, who left the company in 2001 and filed suit that same year. "It makes you frustrated because you know what the laws are."

Daniels said his problems at Lockheed started in 1999 during a stint in Jacksonville, Fla. Daniels, the only African American in a small unit of workers, said he was among the highest skilled and best paid electricians on the job.

One day, he said, a white co-worker from South Carolina said he was disgruntled because protesters forced the state to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol. He said the country would have been better off had the South won the Civil War. A second co-worker responded that African Americans should have been exterminated, the way Adolf Hitler dealt with Jews.

When he and his co-workers moved to another job site at Whidbey Island, Wash., the co-workers threatened Daniels after learning that he complained about their behavior, he said. "They told me knew some people in the Aryan Brotherhood and they could make me disappear," he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...pid=sec-nation

[Auriaprottu]

Originally Posted by MyHouse!

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission yesterday announced its largest-ever settlement for an individual racial discrimination case -- $2.5 million -- against Lockheed Martin of Bethesda.

Lockheed agreed to pay Charles Daniels, a black aviation electrician who said he was subjected to racial epithets and threatened with bodily harm by white employees while repairing military aircraft.

Daniels, 45, "was the target of persistent verbal abuse by coworkers and a supervisor whose racial slurs and offensive language included calling him the N-word, and saying, 'We should do to blacks what Hitler did to the Jews,' and if the South had won then this would be a better country," the EEOC said in a statement. "Daniels was also subjected to multiple physical threats, such as lynching and other death threats after he reported the harassment."

The alleged harassment took place while Daniels worked at Lockheed plants in Florida, Washington state and Hawaii.

I find it interesting that this guy was harassed in three states, none of which are in close proximity to one another. This may be...

The EEOC said Lockheed "failed to discipline the harassers and instead allowed the discrimination against Daniels to continue unabated during his two-year tenure even though the company was aware of the unlawful conduct."

EEOC attorneys said that a Lockheed human resources director said that she investigated Daniels's complaints and confirmed that racial comments were made. But the director dismissed them, saying, "Boys will be boys."

...a much a Lockheed problem as a societal one. Maybe more.

"Boys will be boys"...

If she ever gets shitfaced at a bar and ends up on a pool table surrounded by the same kind of scum that tormented Daniels, I guaran-God damn-tee you she won't be saying "Boys will be boys".

Losing her job won't be enough in a decent universe. If there's a God and a Satan, may they arrange to have this subhuman trick dragged to Hell's gates behind a truck.

Well, that's one resolution down the drain right there. Last week, I said to myself "Self, I'll mend my ugly-posting ways"

Daniels said his problems at Lockheed started in 1999 during a stint in Jacksonville, Fla. Daniels, the only African American in a small unit of workers, said he was among the highest skilled and best paid electricians on the job.

That's probably why it all began. Dude was working with and above people who had every opportunity to just cruise through their formal education and use their color as a fast track (comparatively) to anything they wanted on this Earth, but they fucked up somewhere along the line, so now they're bitter. I just don't understand the racist mindset.

[CanuckFan]

Ooops, wrong thread. Thought you were talking about our fine Cdn soccer star:

[MyHouse!]

Why, is her name Clubber Lang?

[Escudo Mexicano]

Originally Posted by MyHouse!

Why, is her name Clubber Lang?

baptizm by fire

[Native Aztexan]

Originally Posted by MyHouse!

Why, is her name Clubber Lang?

Perhaps Kara Lang is the Canadian version of Clubber Lang.

k.d. lang on the other hand.......

[minorthreat]

Man, it's been a long time since I was last on here. The holidays and grad school applications (with any luck I will be minorthreat, MA in a year and a half or so) kept me plenty busy.

Two things:

One, House, with regard to the article on match-fixing you wrote, an interesting side note is that China is arguably the most underperforming team in Asia because EVERY match in the Chinese Jia A is fixed, be it by the Triads or the Party. Since the competition is completely fake, the quality of play goes down the tubes across the board.

Second, this thread's title man advertising the thing that stole me away from BigSoccer: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/downloads/movies.html

[stanleyt]

While this is the Clubber Lang thread, I think we should take a moment to heed this message from the actor who portrayed this storied character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwQoV407vJY

Happy Sunday.

[Ian Lozada]

So I'm moving my stuff into the loading docks for the Lexington Bridal Show yesterday, when this guy is going around handing out these flyers. I've got a carpet on one shoulder and a chair in the other hand when he comes over to my car and mutters something about this letter he's written about America or something. I tell him just to drop it in the trunk, I've got my hands full.

Sure enough, when I get back to my car, I find it's a paean to David Duke and talking about some White Supremacist book. Did I mention that yesterday's event at the convention center was the gun show?

[Auriaprottu]

Originally Posted by Ian Lozada

So I'm moving my stuff into the loading docks for the Lexington Bridal Show yesterday, when this guy is going around handing out these flyers. I've got a carpet on one shoulder and a chair in the other hand when he comes over to my car and mutters something about this letter he's written about America or something. I tell him just to drop it in the trunk, I've got my hands full.

Sure enough, when I get back to my car, I find it's a paean to David Duke and talking about some White Supremacist book.

You mentioned having Filipino ancestry a while back (at least I think it was you). Do you look White enough that he wouldn't have thought twice about speaking to you about the letter? I ask because if they are now successfully appealing to people who aren't White (but aren't Black or brown, either) it indicates that some people of color have the exact same disconnect the Lockheed HR Director displayed when she dismissed Charl(ie ) Daniels' complaints as trivial.

Duke, like a lot of extreme-right leaders, will play nice in public with just about anyone so long as it gets him an audience, but most of their rank and file aren't that wily.

Did I mention that yesterday's event at the convention center was the gun show?

Meh... guns get a bad rep because of the hillbillies who own them for "defense" against their own shadow. That they have guns makes it damn near a necessity for me to own them.