Between 1998 and 2008, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission noted a 45 percent increase of race-based discrimination complaints brought by whites, reported the Kansas City Star. And as of 2008, those complaints made up over 10 percent of all complaints received by the agency.
When Fulton County official Doug Carl didn’t get the promotion he thought he deserved, he sued the county for race discrimination. And this week, a federal jury agreed that Carl had been victimized because he was white and male, and it awarded him $300,000 in back wages.
Doug Carl (pictured above), Fulton County’s former deputy director of human services, applied for the job of director in April 2007, after the person holding that post — a black woman — stepped down. He believes that he was passed over, in favor of another black woman, because county officials wanted a black woman in that job, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Fulton County Manager Tom Andrews, one of the defendants, admitted during the trial that he called employees “black marbles” and “white marbles” in making personnel decisions. County Commissioner Emma Darnell also allegedly made racially charged remarks, supposedly telling a deputy county manager that she had “too many white boys’ in human services, and that the new director should be black and female.
Darnell denied making such a statement, however, and no witness testified to hearing those comments firsthand. County attorney David Ware said that the comments were admitted to court “despite their being untrue and based on rank hearsay,” reports WSB-TV in Atlanta.
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