I think this is pretty interesting. One of the biggest things we hear is it's OK for blacks to use it and I've never agreed with it. Still don't. I'm a firm believer in that if we are all to be equal then we can't have a different set of rules, or even nationality names, for different races. I don't think blacks should be using the N word any more than they should refer to themselves as African-American. I think it's a separatist term and does not promote unity or equality among other Americans ... who with the exception of less than 1% of the population, originated from somewhere else.
Anyway ... nice to see the discrimination aspect was equally upheld.
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Brandi Johnson sued her boss, STRIVE East Harlem founder Rob Carmona, after he targeted her in a slur-laced tirade. A Manhattan jury awarded $280,000 to Johnson, who recorded her boss using the epithet.
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BY DAREH GREGORIAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2013, 2:14 PM
UPDATED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2013, 11:41 PM
Rob Carmona’s employee says she doesn’t care if he’s black; she doesn’t want to be called the N-word.STRIVE INTERNATIONAL
Rob Carmona’s employee says she doesn’t care if he’s black; she doesn’t want to be called the N-word.
A Manhattan jury awarded $280,000 to a black woman who was repeatedly called the N-word by her boss — who’s also black, and claimed he used the vile epithet as an endearing term.
“My voice was heard today,” Brandi Johnson said Tuesday, after the eight-person federal jury awarded her $30,000 in punitive damages on top of the $250,000 it had already ordered STRIVE and its founder, Rob Carmona, to pay her in the discrimination case.
Carmona’s voice was also heard by the jury — on a damning tape recording Johnson had made of her boss chewing her out in March 2012.
In the tape, Carmona repeatedly uses the racial slur against the 38-year-old single mother of two and a co-worker.
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Brandi Johnson says she cried from humiliation after Carmona's expletive-filled rant.
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Brandi Johnson says she cried from humiliation after Carmona's expletive-filled rant.
“I’m not saying, using the term ‘n-----’ derogatory, ’cause sometimes it’s good to know when to act like a n-----. But y’all act like n-----s all the time,” Carmona said.
When Johnson told her boss she was offended by his language, he said, “You can be offended, but it’s true.”
“You and her act like n-----s. And n-----s let their feelings rule them,” he said.
Carmona didn’t dispute making the comments, but maintained that he was doling out “tough love.”
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Rob Carmona, founder of STRIVE International, was sued by an employee after dropping a string of N-words during a tirade.
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Rob Carmona, founder of STRIVE International, was sued by an employee after dropping a string of N-words during a tirade.
He testified that he was trying to tell Johnson she was “too emotional,” wrapped up in “the negative aspects of human nature.”
Carmona, who is black and of Puerto Rican descent, said the word has “multiple contexts” in the black and Latino communities, and not all of them bad.
He said the word can sometimes be used to convey love, and used the example of someone saying, “This is my n----.”
“That means my boy, I love him, or whatever,” Carmona said. Asked if he meant to indicate love when he called Johnson the word, he said, “Yes, I did.”
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Carmona leaves Manhattan court Tuesday. He testified that he was trying to tell Johnson she was 'too emotional,' wrapped up in 'the negative aspects of human nature.'
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Carmona leaves Manhattan court Tuesday. He testified that he was trying to tell Johnson she was 'too emotional,' wrapped up in 'the negative aspects of human nature.'
Johnson didn’t take it that way. She testified that she cried in the bathroom for 45 minutes after the tirade.
“I was hurt. I felt degraded. I felt disrespected,” she said. “I was embarrassed.”
She said she was later fired from her management job for having complained about Carmona’s conduct.
She had worked there for two years.
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