A White Cop Was Bullied by Racist Coworkers After His DNA Test Revealed He’s Part Black

[phands]

I'm sure that someone here will educate us as to why this is not racist...

Last year Cleon Brown, a 19 year veteran of the Hastings, MI, police department, sued the city for $500,000, claiming that although he’s white, he was harassed by his colleagues after his Ancestry.com DNA results showed he was 18 percent African. The city didn’t go for that amount, but he is receiving $65,000.
The trouble began in 2016 after Brown received the results from the DNA test. He claimed that the other officers would whisper “Black Lives Matter” and pump their fists when Brown walked by. Brown says even the police chief got in on it, calling him “Kunta” in reference to a character from Roots), CNN reports.
The city statement said,

During this most recent holiday season, a good friend of Brown found a tan color ceramic Santa head sitting in his own stocking with “18%” written on it. Not knowing where it came from and knowing his friendship with Brown, the officer placed it in Brown’s stocking. The officer who placed the Santa in Brown’s stocking then went to Brown to apologize for doing so, since he heard that Brown was upset about the incident.
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Speaking to CNN affiliate WDIV, Brown said “I call it straight up racism.”

 

[laughing dog]

Browm must not have received the memo that there is no racism any more, just overly sensitive folk who mistake SESism for racism.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Hard to tell if it is just hazing or bigoted behavior. There would be angles to take to respond to certain things... like "Kunte"... "I go by Toby sir" or "As you were" after the fist salute to diffuse it. If it continued, then it could be viewed as bigoted.

 

[bilby]

Hard to tell if it is just hazing or bigoted behavior. There would be angles to take to respond to certain things... like "Kunte"... "I go by Toby sir" or "As you were" after the fist salute to diffuse it. If it continued, then it could be viewed as bigoted.

'Just hazing' is also known as 'bullying', and is unacceptable behaviour in any workplace.

Sadly, many people never grow out of being the school bully. And of course, police departments attract people who get their kicks by having power over others.

It may be difficult, or even impossible, to eradicate workplace bullying; But describing this vile misbehaviour as 'just hazing' makes you part of the problem, when you ought to at the very least remain neutral, if you cannot be part of the solution.

If bullying is not racist, that doesn't make it OK.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Hard to tell if it is just hazing or bigoted behavior. There would be angles to take to respond to certain things... like "Kunte"... "I go by Toby sir" or "As you were" after the fist salute to diffuse it. If it continued, then it could be viewed as bigoted.

'Just hazing' is also known as 'bullying', and is unacceptable behaviour in any workplace.

Sadly, many people never grow out of being the school bully. And of course, police departments attract people who get their kicks by having power over others.

It may be difficult, or even impossible, to eradicate workplace bullying; But describing this vile misbehaviour as 'just hazing' makes you part of the problem, when you ought to at the very least remain neutral, if you cannot be part of the solution.

If bullying is not racist, that doesn't make it OK.

No shit. Thanks for clearing that up. Had no idea.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

This must be another example of so-called black privilege.