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Atlanta Appeals Court Again Rejects Racial Discrimination Claim

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John Hithon, a black man, spent 13 tough years working his way into the lower ranks of management at a Tyson Foods chicken plant in Gadsden, Ala. But when two better jobs as shift supervisors opened up, Hithon was passed over by the plant manager, who was white, in favor of two white candidates from other Tyson plants. Hithon thought his skin color had something to do with it, and he sued for racial discrimination. As evidence, he testified about the manager's habit of calling black employees "boy." Last month, for the third time and in the face of a 2006 rebuke from the United States Supreme Court, the federal appeals court in Atlanta said there were no racial overtones when a white supervisor called an adult black man "boy." Click here to read more from the New York Times.
 
 



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