Discrimination by Race (not a complete list)  ..........
 

African Americans


 American Indians

 
 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
 
 Hispanics/Latino Americans

 Caucasians

Published Articles:


                                         List of Cases

    Case  1:  A mother (Filipina) who lost custody of her son and                             support due to lack of correct legal counsel.
    Case  2:  Healers in Trouble
    Case 3:    Retaliation and Harassment of Asian Male Faculty in
                        Academia
    Case 4:  Discrimination and Retaliation of Filipino-Hispanic
                     Faculty in Academia
    Case 5:  Retaliation, Racial and Age Discrimination of an            
                     Outstanding Asian American School Teacher
    Case 6:  Scientist in a 10-years Case of Discrimination and Patent
                     Dispute.


    Case 1: A mother (Filipina) who lost custody of her son and support due to lack of correct legal counsel.

    I came to this country in early 1990 as an immigrant and certified teacher from one of the US State's Dept. of Educ. I was married to an American engineer for 14 yrs. which ended in a painful divorce. The settlement was not fair, my lawyer made me sign against my will the agreement my husband wrote before the divorce. I lost custody of my son whom my ex-husband took away to live with him in another state outside GA. I was tore apart after my son left me that I could not function for 7 mos. I had no job and no alimony. In addition to these, my house was hit by hurricane Ivan which caused a lot of money to repair the damage. I became broke so I filed bankruptcy. It was a tough decision to make.

    When I moved on, I applied for a position in a county public schools. I have not heard from them. I was a scholar from the University of the Philippines, I am a BSEED graduate with master courses in teaching, awarded outstanding teacher of the year, best classroom, best teaching demonstrator, excellent service, a model teacher, hard-worker, great with children, bi-lingual,etc. My transcripts were evaluated by the national creditors as equivalent to a US bachelor and master's degree.

    When my son was abused by his stepmother, I called the Child Protected Services for help but to no avail. The case worker said, there were no bruises and blood in my son's body which are signs of abuse so there is nothing they can do about it. I was horrified with what she said. In Christmas 2005, my son refused to go back to my ex-husband and his step-mother. My son begged to stay with me. I asked for legal advice and was told that I could be charge of kidnapping if I don't send him back to his dad. My heart broke to let him go. When summer vacation came, I filed change of custody, but the judge dismissed the case without a hearing. He was the same judge who executed our divorce in the same county. Late September,2007, I was terminated for the cause I did not do intentionally. Prior to my termination, I received a great teacher award for a job well done.

    Recently, I applied for unemployment benefits while looking for a job but I was denied. I was given food stamps for 2 mos.and was cut off because I was told to work 27 hrs./mo. in DFACS office to pay for it. I lost trust with the system after what I've been through. I believe that God's law is above all laws. He's my great defender who is very powerful and just. He would bring justice to those who trust in him. One day I'd get back what were taken from me. Praise His holy name forever!

    Case 2:   10 Filipino Nurses, Healers in Trouble
                        By JOSEPH BERGER
                        Published:      The New York Times,  January 27, 2008

    "The 10 nurses are under indictment in Suffolk County on charges of endangering the welfare of five chronically ill children and one terminally ill man. They are accused of walking off their jobs at the Avalon Gardens Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Smithtown in April 2006 without providing sufficient notice for the nursing home to replace them on coming shifts.

    Although their resignations were prompted by a seemingly commonplace dispute with their employers over what the nurses say were broken promises and shabby working conditions involving a total of 26 Filipino nurses and a physical therapist, the 10 defendants could each be sentenced to a year in jail and lose their nursing licenses. Their trial was scheduled to start Monday, but it appears that it will be put off until March.

    The district attorney’s office conceded that the patients suffered no harm, and acknowledged that it could not recall a similar prosecution against nurses in the state. ............"


    Case 3:  Retaliation and Harassment of Asian Male Faculty in Academia.

    I came into this country in twenty years ago as a graduate student and now I am a Professor. I live a good part of my life in the north and never felt discriminated. While I was in the north I used to hear horror stories about how in the south people discriminates. However, in my heart I thought that as long as you are excel in your career, discrimination can have no effect on you. Just keep on working hard and hard work has its reward and it will defeat discrimination by itself. I saw this belief and trust maintained when I was a Ph.D and postdoctoral researcher. With this trust and believe I started my academic career as a tenure-track faculty position in the South. My aforementioned belief was only shattered after I became an Assistant Professor.

    Within a year of my appointment in a University in the South, I begin to realize no matter how hard I work there was no one to encourage and acknowledge my hard work ethics.  Then, I started hearing stories from outsiders how bad I am in teaching and research. It was a terrible shock for me because I was an outstanding graduate student during the course of my Ph.D and also did outstanding researcher as a postdoctoral student. Then I thought may be I can work on it. So I started working on my teaching skills. While I was in the second year of my tenure-track position I felt very threatened that if I don't bring in big federal grants I will be kicked out within couple of years. This made me work even harder. My belief of Asian discrimination started at the time when I started observing caucasian faculty was always rewarded and treated with respect and dignity by the department administration and senior faculty. In contrast, Asian faculties were not given the same treatment. I began to realize that being an Asian I am expected to work at least 10-times harder than caucasian faculty in my department. Then I started working on research projects myself, working in the laboratory for long hours. I brought a sleeping bag in my office and refuse to date or socialize with anyone. I had tremendous pressure that if I don't bring in NIH grants within the first three years I will be kicked out.

    At the end of my third-year, I was very happy with the grant and my teaching evaluation by the students and felt now the University might help me get some Ph.D students to work in my laboratory. I went to talk to the chair (after getting $1 million dollar) and was able to convince him to admit graduate students to work in my laboratory. I was successful in getting few Ph.D students. While I was mentoring my students I immediately begin to notice that my caucasian student was treated differently than my Asian students. For example, always my caucasian student was praised heavily by the administration. The caucasian student's stipend was higher and was given special awards and bonuses compared to my Asian students. There were times when the department administration would support my caucasian students so much that I was often threatened and humiliated in front of my students. It was becoming more and more depressing and frustrating for me, but I endured everything because I was not tenured. I knew the moment I will speak up they will deny me tenure. So I keep on working hard myself. My research performance was so outstanding that I was rated very heavily by external reviewer. Some reviewers, even went on mentioning that I should be promoted directly to full professor. As I mentioned earlier, my performance was outstanding and had this been a caucasian person he/she would have been rated very highly by the University administrators. I knew this will never happen because I am Asian. Fortunately, again my prayers were answered and I was granted tenure but after so much stress and difficulty. I was happy to be promoted but promise myself to stand-up for any one who suffers similar injustice.

    At this point in my life I am still trying to get my message across the University that please do not treat people on their looks and skin color but try to think that we are living in 20th century. I wonder if the people who discriminates ever think " People are people, no matter how they look, they are all the creatures of the same God."

    At this point I only hope our University will stand-up against racism and will do the right thing for justice to prevail. I know that there is very little chance that they will change but there is a hope. I also feel that this is a battle that we will have to fight together. While I am writing this, I will once again pray today to the ALMIGHTY to make our beloved country free of racial discrimination. I know my prayers will be answered because everytime I prayed it was answered!

    Case 4:  Discrimination and Retaliation of Filipino-Hispanic Faculty in Academia

    When I started teaching here at a university for five years ago, I was told that I would earn tenure if I simply fulfilled the School's requirement for one major research/creative project, maintained a satisfactory record of teaching, and served the School, the University, and the Profession. The University's regulations state that tenure is earned by the junior faculty member who shows evidence of "a successfully developing career."

    Unfortunately, in the time since I began here I have experienced prejudice and oppression above the level I've experienced in all but a few other workplaces in my wearying 25 years as a minority professional seeking success in journalism.
    I am one of only about 40 Asian-American or Hispanic journalism professors in the country. My father is a Filipino of Spanish descent who immigrated to the US from the Philippines. My name is the 944th most common Spanish surname out of approximately 1600. Because I'm not like them nor anyone they've ever worked with, many of my colleagues here allowed their ignorance and fears—and in some cases hatred—to lead them to apply negative racial stereotypes to me and to question my abilities, my intellect, my character, and my motivations. From the beginning, it was obvious to me that I would neither be judged for who I really am, accepted as an equal, nor allowed the fullest opportunity to succeed. Throughout my five years here, I have labored under that assumption, knowing that my record would need to be exemplary for me to succeed. I have worked to build a record that would be embarrassing to reject.

    Admittedly, minority status alone does not automatically result in complete rejection. Those minority people and women who remain docile and servile are tolerated as long as they affect acculturation. But any minority people and women who succeed in this kind of workplace do so only after convincing the mainstream that they will be loyal soldiers--regardless of the consequences for their stigmatized peers. "Troublemaking," "uppity" minorities and women simply are not tolerated.

    So, where I went wrong was that I have had what many of my colleagues see as fatal audacity because I actually publicly complained that I've been being treated unfairly. Then, after a particularly nasty and unnecessarily tumultuous confrontation with the former dean resulted in his resignation, many of my colleagues blamed me for his self-destruction. In the years since, I have been subject to an astonishing level of discourtesy, disregard, and disrespect. After vainly seeking help from the University and the State, I filed suit in federal court, charging race-based discrimination and retaliation.

    From early on, I served with and supported diversity activist groups. I served as chair of the University's Human Relations Committee and am a founding member of the University’s Sexism & Racism Victims Coalition. As the person responsible for telling the world this story through the Coalition's website, it is no wonder that the Administration sees me as particularly "troublesome" and "uppity."

    What's most hurtful about the decision of my colleagues is that each and every one of them knows why I'm here and why I've worked so hard to succeed here. They all know that I'm in Lawrence—the hometown of my ex-wife—to participate in the rearing of my son, who lives in my home four nights each week. Everything I've done here I've done to insure that he wouldn't be separated from either his mother or his father. In that light, the enmity and lack of common decency in their personal and political decision become all the more heinous.
    Reference:  http://www.seekpeace.com/tenure/
    Affidavit:  http://www.seekpeace.com/KUSRVC/CuencaSummaryAffidavit.html


    Case 5:  Retaliation, Race and Age Discrimination of an 
                     Outstanding Asian American School Teacher

    I have taught in a Southern State county schools for twenty-one years, and I have received 18 consecutive years of "Satisfactory" ratings from all the previous principals in these schools on my annual evaluations along with 15+ years of perfect attendance records. On the contrary, our new principal (Principal X) has her position for only two and half years.

    I worked under several principals successfully except Principal X is the only principal who is unsatisfied with my performance as a teacher. (She is the only principal who had issued me with Records for Duties and Responsibilities (D & R), Professional Development Plan (PDP), Need Improvement (NI), and finally the "Unsatisfactory" on the annual evaluation.) She had violated the State and County evaluation policies and procedures; In addition, she changed my annual evaluation from a "Satisfactory", to an "Unsatisfactory", in one week time period without observing my teaching. The County Schools overturned her decision after I complained to her Superintendent, and County School Board. I firmly believe that I have done nothing to deserve neither any of the negative criticism nor the issue of nonrenewable employment contract. I was  totally dismayed that no one checked into the accusations made about my  teaching abilities along with other charges, since I had a history of excellent service to the County.

    I have taught the same curriculum to the same grade level of students, for two consecutive years. I applied the administration's direction; In addition, implemented the same curriculum to the same grade level of students two years in a row. Ironically, that I did earn an "S" rating last school year and was given incredible numbers of "NI" and a "U" on the annual evaluation this year by the same administrator.

    I also feel very uncomfortable that my thoughts were to be misjudged by their own interpretations. I was not given any opportunity to clarify and to explain my good intention. My teaching programs have been ignored or disgraced by the administration. For instance, I had requested permission to teach the students the concept of patterns by creating a pattern with them, but I was told that I was not permitted to have students make anything, the same time I was told that "you should demonstrate concepts with concrete examples for the students, but should not have students make anything.

    They made several accusations for the wrongful reasons without any investigations done by the administration. I was not given any opportunity to me make explanations or statements. For instance, I was painted with "inappropriate behavior" of getting into others' property numerous times by Principal X without any evidence and was given Duties & Responsibilities Records as results of them. I felt my Principal disgraced my character and painted me with a distorted picture.

    I always believe that the hard worker/staff at school should be complimented rather than be reprimanded for the time and devotion that the faculty/staff do for the school and the students. I feel that I have been always singled out for harmful non-sense accusation or unknown reasons given by the administration beyond my knowledge at this professional setting. I was always given a different result from the other teachers if the raising issues were the same. For example, no faculty/staff is required to sign-in the morning or sign-out to leave in the afternoon this school year. I was the ONLY one in the entire school that required signing out each day before I left school. This unfair treatment needs to be stopped. It is very dangerous to assume the fact by the false information in a professional setting.

    Case 6:  Scientist in a 10-years Case of Discrimination and Patent
                     Dispute.

    The Philadelphia Inquirer -  Monday, November 12, 2007
    Source:  http://www.philly.com/inquirer/gallery/11227517.html

    "A  Rohm & Haas supervisor asks company scientist Mandy Lin in a performance review "If a monkey makes a catalyst work should the monkey get a promotion?"

    Posted::  Nov. 13, 2007
    Source:  http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/homepage/20071113_New_twist_in_Rohm___Haas_case.html

    "A long and bitter case
    This unusually long and bitter legal case began in June 2000 when Rohm & Haas sued Lin for disclosing four trade secrets on her research on a paint additive that is the company's biggest product. By then, Lin, who is Chinese, had resigned from Rohm & Haas after filing a discrimination claim and receiving a $100,000 payment. One of her supervisors acknowledged referring to her as a "monkey" and regretted it.

    Three years into the trade secrets case, Rohm & Haas widened the scope of the legal dispute by saying that new research Lin developed for EverNu could contain information she stole from her former employer."


    Understanding Discrimination Against Hispanic/Latino Americans     United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261, U.S. 204,1923     Understanding Discrimination Against Indigenous People and Native Americans