White man wins $150,000 in reverse discrimination suit against black former boss who
White man wins $150,000 in reverse discrimination suit against black former boss who called him "stupid white boy, cracker and polack" Mark Pasternak said he lost his state job helping troubled youths because he couldn’t stand working under a black boss who called him racist names like “cracker,” “polack” and “stupid white boy.”
Pasternak was dismissed from his position as a youth worker with the state Office of Children and Family Services in 1999. But today, he feels some relief and vindication.
After a rare reverse racial discrimination trial in Buffalo’s federal court, a jury Tuesday awarded Pasternak $150,000. Jurors found that his former boss, Tommy E. Baines, discriminated against him racially and created a hostile working environment.
Federal court officials said they could not recall any reverse discrimination case in Buffalo resulting in a larger monetary verdict. Most such cases wind up being settled or dismissed before they ever go to trial.
“I’m elated and overwhelmed,” the 48-year-old South Buffalo man said in an interview Wednesday. “I feel like I’ve been to hell and back. . . . After all these years, the best feeling is, the jury heard his story and mine, and they believed me.”
A seven-member all-white jury delivered the verdict after a two-week trial and almost 10 hours of deliberations. U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott presided.
Pasternak was subjected to three years of cruel abuse from Baines, a veteran supervisor with the agency formerly known as the state Division for Youth, according to Pasternak’s attorney, David J. Seeger.
The abuse came in the form of race-based slurs, job sabotage and crude insults that Baines made about Pasternak in front of co-workers, according to court papers and testimony.
“You’re a white boy, and I don’t like white boys,” Pasternak quoted Baines as telling him. “Handle it.”
“He said that to me more than once, and he said many other things like that over the years I worked for him,” Pasternak told The Buffalo News. “He called me cracker, polack, Paster-rat and stupid white boy. . . . I was sick to my stomach.”
Pasternak said his boss also harassed him by removing documents from his desk and changing the locks on doors and filing cabinets that Pasternak needed access to.
The state conducted an internal investigation into Pasternak’s allegations in 1998, court records show, and the investigation resulted in a $2,000 fine against Baines. But he was allowed to continue working as a supervisor.
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but it wasn't reverse discrimination it was just discrimination.
Yes, it was reverse discrimination. The point of "reverse discrimination" is that non-whites are always stereotyped as the "victims," and whites are always unfairly stereotyped as racist.
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Yes, it was reverse discrimination. The point of "reverse discrimination" is that non-whites are always stereotyped as the "victims," and whites are always unfairly stereotyped as racist.
No. Reverse discrimination is discriminating against a group in the form of doing something good for a minority, but not the majority.
eg. Blacks get into certain schools easier than whites and asians.
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Reverse discrimination is a term used to describe discriminatory policies or acts that benefit a historically sociopolitically nondominant group (typically minorities), rather than the historically sociopolitically dominant group.
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[B]A seven-member all-white jury delivered the verdict after a two-week trial and almost 10 hours of deliberations. U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott presided.
anyone else think they didnt have to say the jury was all white? wtf does that have to do with this.
funny...
but it wasn't reverse discrimination it was just discrimination.
exactly. reverse discrimination is discriminating against your own kind.
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