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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n24_v83/ai_13609576/?tag=content;col1

Black woman awarded $415,000 in racial discrimination case April 12 1993 Johnson Publishing Co.

Summary

A 37 years old Black woman Anita Holt got $415,000 from out of court settlement by Life Care Services Corp which is considering changing their hiring and promotion system. Three years ago, she declined to promote because her race could give bad effects to the company even if she holds master’s degree. Thus Ms. Holt sued the company during working at a retirement care consulting firm in Massachusetts by co-owner. The company responded quickly. The company distribute the letter tells about their fault and their damage to lose the ability person to their all employees. As a result, she was satisfied for the company’s respond. Bruce A. Fredrickson who is attorney of Ms. Holt added there is discrimination in the U.S and it is still perceptible, also this case will effect to employers to rethink about civil rights avoiding discrimination.

Respond

After I read this article, I felt the importance of protecting society from racial discrimination. The amount of money was so big that we can see how the government put the racial discrimination too important. Nowadays, we don’t see the news article like this much (this article was written in 1993) and it was the effort of government. The article was saying “the company also agreed to distribute a two-page letter to all its employees acknowledging “errors in judgment and practice”” it means to me that every employee will try not to have discrimination in their mind. I have never worked at the company, but I don't really understand why discrimination exists in the work place. American values have equality of opportunity and hard work. She did have equality of opportunity when she was in the company except promotion process and she did hard work getting master’s degree but as a result, she couldn’t promote only because of race and this is so bad.