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Wo, 28 Januarie 2004 04:43  |
Annette
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Jislaaik - en ek dog dit is 'n grap toe ek lees van die sewe dwergies -
skuus mans- en sneeuwitjie:)))
Annette
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"bolander" skryf in boodskap news:4016C8B7.7000107@miami.net...
> KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A Southwest Airlines flight attendant's variation on
> a rhyme with a racist history did not discriminate against two black
> passengers, a federal jury decided.
>
> The U.S. District Court jury of seven white men and one white woman
> deliberated less than an hour Wednesday before reaching its verdict.
>
> Grace Fuller, 49, and her sister Louise Sawyer, 46, both of suburban
> Kansas City, filed the suit over comments flight attendant Jennifer
> Cundiff made after they boarded a Southwest flight to return from a Las
> Vegas vacation three years ago next month.
>
> As the two were trying to find seats on the crowded plane, Cundiff said
> over the intercom, "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe; pick a seat, we gotta go."
>
> Sawyer and Fuller said the rhyme immediately struck them as a reference
> to an older, racist version in which the first line is followed by the
> words "catch a n----r by the toe." They testified at the two-day trial
> that they were embarrassed, humiliated and frustrated. Fuller said she
> suffered a small seizure on the flight home, which said was triggered by
> the remark.
> Later at home, she said she had a grand mal seizure and was bedridden
> for three days.
>
> Cundiff, 25, of Argyle, Texas, testified that she had never heard the
> racist version and that she was only trying to inject humor to make the
> flight more enjoyable and memorable. She wanted passengers to take their
> seats so the plane could leave.
>
> Cundiff, who had been a flight attendant for eight months at the time,
> said she had used the rhyme before on other flights. She said that it
> was not until she showed her mother the letters complaining about what
> she said that she learned about the racist version of the rhyme.
>
> Fuller said after the verdict that there was enough evidence for jurors
> to have found she had her sister had been discriminated against.
>
> "If we had jurors of our peers then we would have won the case today,
> and we should have won the case today, with all the evidence shown," she
> said.
>
> "It's a shame that the jury pool we had to draw from did not have one
> black and not one minority," she said. "Something has to be done to make
> sure there is justice in America for blacks."
>
> Fuller and her sister testified that they first wrote to Southwest
> complaining that they felt the rhyme was racially offensive, asking that
> flight attendants stop using it. They said they decided to sue because
> they felt the airline did not take their complaints seriously.
>
> The lawsuit accused Southwest of violating a 1981 civil rights law that
> prevents businesses from discriminating against minority customers by
> treating them differently from white customers for the same service.
>
> Scott A. Wissel, appointed to represent the women after they filed a
> handwritten complaint, declined comment about the verdict. In his
> closing argument he said Cundiff's use of the rhyme was tantamount to a
> racial slur.
>
> John W. Cowden, who represented Southwest Airlines, said he and his
> client were pleased with the verdict.
>
> "All along, Southwest Airlines has contended that it did not
> intentionally discriminate against the two ladies," he said. "We are
> pleased the jury agreed and vindicated Southwest and its flight
> attendant, Jennifer Cundiff."
>
> In his closing argument, Cowden characterized Cundiff's remarks as an
> innocent attempt at humor.
>
> "At best, this is an argument that something is not politically
> correct," Cowden told jurors. "At worst, it is nothing. Certainly, this
> does not support a violation of a federal statute, because these words
> were spoken."
>
> Cundiff said she was relieved and thought the verdict was fair and just.
> She maintained that the rhyme had been directed at several passengers,
> not just Sawyer and Fuller.
>
> "When I first heard they complained about what I said, I didn't know
> what they were talking about," she said.
>
> While Cundiff said she probably would never use the rhyme again, "I will
> not tell anyone not to say it."
>
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| Re: Vanuit Amerika [boodskap #89657 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #89650] |
Wo, 28 Januarie 2004 10:53  |
Threeships Mcduck
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:23:19 +0200, bolander
served the following to the group:
> KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A Southwest Airlines flight attendant's variation on
> a rhyme with a racist history did not discriminate against two black
> passengers, a federal jury decided.
>
dis `n joke. sulke goed behoort nie eens in die hof nie. die suster
het tien teen een die seizure gekry omdat sy `n dikgat is.
Threeships Mcduck
lato di gomma giù, lato lucido in su
www.mothership.co.za
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