"Colour Blind" America

News Flash! An American Federal Appeals Court has decided that when a Nazi group calls a Jew "vermin" there is no "racial overtone". As the Court decision states "This is just the customary term used by members of the Nazi party in referring to Jews, so there is no malicious intent that can be construed from the use of this term. This is purely 'conversational usage'."

Thank God for justice in America!

Here's a bit about a related NY Times story of US Federal Appeal Court "justice"...

But when two better jobs as shift supervisors opened up, Mr. Hithon was passed over by the plant manager, who was white, in favor of two white candidates from other Tyson plants. Mr. Hithon thought his skin color had something to do with it, and he sued for racial discrimination.

As evidence, he testified about the manager’s habit of calling black employees “boy.”

Last month, for the third time and in the face of a 2006 rebuke from the United States Supreme Court, the federal appeals court in Atlanta said there were no racial overtones when a white supervisor called an adult black man “boy.”

Last month, for the third time and in the face of a 2006 rebuke from the United States Supreme Court, the federal appeals court in Atlanta said there were no racial overtones when a white supervisor called an adult black man “boy.”

“The usages were conversational,” the majority explained, repeating what it had told the trial court after the Supreme Court ruled, and “nonracial in context.” Even if “somehow construed as racial,” the unsigned 2-to-1 decision went on, “the comments were ambiguous stray remarks” that were not proof of employment discrimination.

I suppose some of you will insist that this just can't be true. Well, go read the gory details. The article provides more than enough evidence that "justice" in the US is colour-blind as well as brain-dead.