County: 'Too many white faces' (Court rules library demoted staffers over color of skin)

WorldNetDaily ^ | June 11, 2003

[Michael2001]

After publicly complaining about a "white dominated administration," a board member with the public library system for Atlanta and Fulton County in Georgia demoted seven white librarians "because of the color of their skin," and then tried to call it a "reorganization."

That's the conclusion reached by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which upheld a lower court's ruling against the library. The three-judge panel made the unanimous decision that library officials intentionally discriminated "on the basis of race and used trickery and deceit to cover it up."

Library officials failed to produce evidence of a systematic reorganization for the plaintiffs' attorney, except documents dated six weeks after the librarians were transferred.

The move amounts to a $17 million mistake, according to the paper.

The opinion, written by Judge Susan H. Black, revealed that library board member Mary Jamerson Ward complained publicly about "too many white faces." Ward is no longer on the board.

The appellate decision, according to the Journal-Constitution, holds three members of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System board and the system's director financially liable. Fulton County attorney O.V. Brantley said the county would cover their cost, if it comes to that.

Brantley plans to recommend the Fulton County commissioners request a rehearing before the full panel of the 11th Circuit. The county also could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

[MEG33]

This was too blatant to ignore.

[goldstategop]

Indeed. If seven black librarians were fired cause the library board thought the librarian makeup happened to be "too black" everyone from Jesse Jackson to Al Sharpton along with the NAACLP would be up in arms. But white racism is apparently PC. No one cares if whites get fired from their jobs to make room for less qualified minorities.

[goldstategop]

I mean anti-white racism.

[Drammach]

Indeed, and as it was racially based, Mz. Ward, et al, are also probably guilty of a "race crime", and violating the effected librarian's Civil Rights.

If the victims were black, Mz. Ward and said board members involved should be convicted and sentenced to a minimum of 7 years in prison.

I would expect the same penalty to be meted out in the case of reverse-discrimination.

[goldstategop]

In your dreams.

[Moonman62]

The irony here is that the demoted seven are most likely flaming liberals, if they are like other public library systems.

[Lancey Howard]

I hope these plaintiffs sue somebody dead.

[goldstategop]

Probably white liberals. Exactly the kind who would gladly give up their jobs for the sake of "diversity." If that's the case, they'll find no sympathy from me.

[tupac]

Western Culture meets the End. Have the Sasquatches also noted that there are too many white faces in Opera? Ballet? Classical Music? The Best Sellers List? Those Who can do Math?