A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit by a group of African-American postal workers who were forced to work inside a metal cage over a period of four days while co-workers threw peanuts and bananas at them, shouted racial epithets, and displayed racist signs. In Allen v. Potter, No. 04-31179 (5th Cir., Oct. 26, 2005), the court ruled that the plaintiffs could not prove that management knew or should have known of the harassment and failed promptly to stop it, despite the allegation that at least two supervisors had walked past and laughed.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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