Why so much hate,justus4?

Whatever the perceived 'prejudicial' nature of the court, this is a non-starter. While a local court may find for the plaintiffs, it will be appealed by the countyusing their almost unlimited deep pockets; this means it will go to a 'reconstructionist' oriented court, and be overturned. This same thing happened in Santee with voting rights; the government changed voting from districts (set up to guarantee black representation) to at-large --with the blessings of the court; the same court that prevents whites from changing ANYTHING since the sixties-- when there was a black majority in order to prevent the election of white candidates.

If anyone wants to see blatant racial discrimination just go to Fort Gordon. You will get all you want.

It is not fair for you to hate me because I'm white. I can't help it , it's not my fault I was born white. Boo-hoo!

If they were fired for that reason then they should sue. Doesn't matter if you black or white (thinks of Michael Jackson).

dichotomy- You are so correct,"You just can't convince me that no white people are applying for the front desk jobs at the post office or to be receptionists at the VA or to be car salesmen on the hill." Also, one has to pass a test to work at the post office, and African-Americans cannot be the only ones making a passing score. I once took a post office test, about twenty years ago, and back then, veterans were given extra points on the test just because they were veterans, now it looks like Affirmative Action is doing the same thing with minorities.

DStewarsr, I don't get that. There are whites out there on the gates at times. If the jobs are there and whites don't want them, so be it. That's not an easy job. I went through the gate today and the lady asked me what time it was. She was obviously tired. There is no reason to cast aspersions on the guards who are willing to do that thankless job.

Riverman1: I don't think the judgement was on the workers but rather those who do the hiring.
dichotomy: Also take a look at the DMV.
The thing is EOE is a little ironic in itself....Once used to help those discriminated against it is now nothing more than a tool used to keep qualified candis from being hired becuase they aren't 'tokens'. I'm thonking about competeing in the MISS BLACK AUGUSTA PAGEANT b/c i can't find a job with my Maters in Eco.... mainly due to my white skin tone...so maybe I can just catch a ride on a lawsuit:)

I have noticed the very thing that the majority are posting here, I work at Fort Gordon and I see the same thing all the time. The problems is that if a white person complains they are racist. I am not a racist person in any sense of the word and I believe in fairness to all but I truly think that in trying to be fair to people of color it has gotten to far out of control like so many things in this country.

Perhaps, these young black, females have more education than you. Experience is not always valued over education. Also, they may have computer skills you lack since your older. There are a lot variables other than race that could be going on here. And since when, did standing at the gates come rain or shine become a choice position?

These people will win this lawsuit... V Jones has been in lots of trouble while ceo of Dekalb cty..Wanting white managers out of top positions is just one of the many troubles he had..BTW he was heard to say he wanted the cty.to look more like the people in Dekalb, in other words black. He also was accused of sexual assault, also accused of openly bumping people in the hallways (ones he disagreed with).. His name has been in the AJC often & usually in a negative way.

I tend to believe both Jones and Stone may be not only racially-biased against whites and fair-skinned blacks, but may be also misogynists - women-haters, and perhaps despise intelligent and older black women as well. As a fair-skinned African American woman living in DeKalb County, I experienced what I believed was discrimination by the former HR manager, Vernon Jones' most recent cohorts and Joe Stone, in particular, when I applied for a position as legal assistant with the County two years ago.

Two years ago, I was at the County, applying for a job. Sitting in a room with about 20 darker-skinned 20- and 30-something females, we had gotten half-way through the middle of a very poorly-written and grammatically error-filled test for a legal assistant position in DeKalb County.

As we waited to begin, I listened to the other women's conversations. They spoke with very bad, embarrasing English, i.e., dis, dat, I done dat, etc., for the most part. The HR man came into the room and looked us over. As I smiled hello, he looked at me as if I had done something wrong, but I was determined to remain positive and unafraid. (He had violated my trust some time earlier, when I formerly worked for the county and in confidence requested help when I reported several sexually- and racially-charged meetings with a former boss.)

After about ten minutes of the 30-minute grammar test, I was almost finished (plowing through trying to figure what such simple, elementary questions so badly-written meant), when the HR fellow came and told me I had to stop and leave because I had missed more than half the answers and could not take the test again. I was stunned, for I knew better and had checked my answers as I went along. He refused to allow me to see my answers, and said I had to leave.

I was offered a subsequent position with the court system which required no testing, only experience as a legal assistant, and was scheduled to begin, when the final interview was suddenly canceled and never rescheduled with no explanation.

I have no criminal record, and received great evaluations on my jobs. I have two degrees from Georgia State University, and was on the Dean's List there. I am a published writer/editor and former public relations director for some governmental, legal, and non-profit agencies. Mama was an English teacher, and I was an all-A student in the subject. As a young senior citizen, I was urgently seeking employment with my old employer, the County.

At the age of 65, I have suffered the affronts of "my own people" all my life for not being "black enough", even when I grew out a gigantic Afro in the 60s and 70s, and participated in the civil rights movements in Atlanta with SNCC and other radical groups.
Potential friends, co-workers, church members, supervisors, nothing I did was good enough, and I was so hurt when a church member said to me, the same thing she had said to my mother 50 years ago, "You must think you're white." Mama endured the same prejudice and had her heart broken mostly by black folks, not whites in the segregated South.

Other fair-skinned blacks confide that they, too, have suffered more discrimination and negative responses from blacks than whites in all my years. I've debased myself, humbled myself, and almost resorted to licking their boots in order to be treated with some modicum of dignity by "my own people". It took a Christian psychologist two years ago to convince me that it was okay for me to be who I am just as God made me, and to stop trying so hard to be accepted by ignorant people, whatever color. I finally don't care any more...they're missing out on a good friend.

I don't know anything about Vernon Jones except what has been written here and it sounds as though he may have abused his power. His behavior seems to be unfortunate and unnecessary. With that being said, I would be remiss to let that fair-skin black comment go without remark. Dark-skin blacks have also been discriminated against within our own race, as well. Has the poster, ever heard of a paper bag test? It happens and it's inexcusable behavior that is perpetrated by stupid, insecure people.