Poetic Justice

Several municipal employees of Greenwich, Connecticut, including Affirmative Action director Kelly Houston, “herself a minority,”

will be required to attend anti-discrimination and/or diversity training classes under the terms [of a proposed settlement of a civil rights complaint] as described by R. Hamisi Ingram, the executive director of the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.

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  1. Rhymes With Right March 25, 2006 at 10:06 am | | Reply

    Look at the words of the town “Affirmative Action Oficer”, the individual charged with enforcing non-discrimination policies in the town. Tell me if a white employee would still be employed if he/she had written such an email in a private, much les official, capacity.

    Town Affirmative Action Officer Kelly Houston found no merit to discrimination claims in her investigation.

    But the women filed their own complaints against the town in December, saying that [Town Affirmative Action Officer Kelly] Houston’s findings were severely compromised by a series of e-mails that she exchanged before the conclusion of her investigation with a personal trainer the women had hired.

    “Seeing a group of Black people that they do not know is going to draw attention,” Houston, herself a minority, wrote in the June 8 e-mail, which was obtained by Greenwich Time and contained Houston’s name, title and town e-mail address.

    “I do think that you can use the facilities. However you will have to be discreet and if you are asked you are going to have to say you are just working out with friends. If you are doing a black group, you are going to need to cut your numbers down. Welcome to Greenwich!”

    Good God! This is the antithesis of the Fourteenth Amendment — but then again, aren’t most current “affirmative action” and “civil rights” programs run by government?

  2. Sandy April 14, 2006 at 10:32 am | | Reply

    Houston 1) wanted to join the goup and 2) is the wife of the Greenwich NAACP President. Of the irony.

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