Diversity Chat: Diversity Chat for the Week of September 25th, 2006

(This may take a few moments, but as always, it's worth the wait!)

Welcome to Diversity Chat for the week of September 25th, 2006! This week, Tony Wade and I discuss reasons and solutions for the continued racial violence that plagues America, why Latvia's new anti-labor discrimination law will make sexual orientation a protected class, next steps now that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found a sexual harassment complaint against former NBA all-star Isiah Thomas has reasonable merit, and other issue, too.

First though, here's this round up of some of the week’s top stories in human relations, equal opportunity and diversity:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to CBS’s Katie Couric Sunday about the influence growing up in racially segregated, and often racially violent, Birmingham, Alabama, during Jim Crow had on her. Rice credits her parents and a tight-knit community for her extraordinary success in the face of a childhood spent enduring institutional discrimination.

A handful of African American students staged a sit-in at the administrative building of Ohio Dominican University over a series of incidents involving racial graffiti. The most recent incident involved racial slurs carved into the wall of an elevator in student housing.

Bonnie Bleskachek, the first female fire chief of Minneapolis, is herself under fire after being accused of sexual harassment by three firefighters, each of whom is female. One of the firefighters, Kristina Lemon, claims Bleskachek denied her training and advancement opportunities after Lemon turned down Bleskacheck’s request for a sexual relationship.

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan got off to a violent start in Melbourne, Florida, when a mosque there was hit by gunfire as members celebrated inside. No one was injured and there are no suspects in the attack. But that wasn’t the only violent incident marking the start of Ramadan in America.

Persons unknown left a bullet-riddled Quran was left outside a mosque in Chattanooga, Tennessee, vandalized a mosque in Indiana and there were other incidents at mosques in Maine, Arizona and Maryland.

Meanwhile, Rosh Hashanah began at sundown Friday, marking the start of a new year on the Jewish calendar. Saturday began the year 5767 for those of the Jewish faith.

More than 100 doctors, school leaders and ministers participating Saturday in the North County Racial Harmony and Justice Day say more education and understanding would help heal divisions in their St. Louis-area community. Housing, health care, law enforcement and religion were all reportedly on the agenda at the event held at St. Louis Community College.

Mediator Vince Ready ruled this week that both harassment and sexual harassment did occur at the Richmond, Virginia Fire-Rescue, and that the City of Richmond failed dismally in its efforts to deal with the allegations. Ready had been brought in to mediate a union grievance filed in May of 2005 by the International Association of Fire Fighters against the City of Richmond.

Ready also made three key recommendations, including changing the physical workspace for women firefighters, increasing awareness training and providing a dispute resolution forum. Both the City of Richmond and the Union have signed on to Ready’s recommendations.

A class action discrimination lawsuit filed in 1999 by American Indian farmers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture may finally be coming to trial next year. Plaintiffs in the case say USDA discriminated against American Indians by failing to give them loans and other benefits. The case mirrors one filed by African American farmers in 1997 and settled for hundreds of millions of dollars just two years later.

The passage of California Proposition 209 in 1996, a ballot initiative that eliminated affirmative action in state university admissions, has sharply reduced the number of African American students at UCLA since it took effect. That’s according to Thomas Lifka, UCLA’s Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Services.

But UCLA officials say they may start taking a more holistic approach to admissions this fall to make UCLA’s admissions process more like that of UC Berkeley, which enrolls more minority students than UCLA.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the charges made by Anucha Browne Sanders of sexual harassment against former NBA great Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden have reasonable merit. That emerged in recent court hearings in a civil case filed by Browne Sanders, a former senior vice president of marketing for the New York Knicks organization. Browne Sanders claims she was fired for reporting sexual harassment at the hands of Thomas. Thomas and Madison Square Garden continue to deny the charges.

Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga is set to sign that country’s new anti-discrimination labor law after lawmakers added sexual orientation to a list including race, gender, age, disability, religious and political beliefs. Vike-Freiberga vetoed the bill in June after the Latvian parliament passed a measure that didn’t include sexual orientation as a protected class, which would have put Latvia at odds with the European Union.

And finally...

Henry Dillon, a former New Orleans deputy city attorney, will be spending the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced last week for using his position to rape two women in his office. U.S District Judge Lance Africk sentenced Dillon more than four months after a jury found him guilty of depriving the women of their civil rights under color of law by aggravated sexual abuse. Dillon raped the women after telling them they needed to come to his office to complete some court business.

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