Most states are at-will, but if she has a contract, those provisions kick in. Doesn’t mean she still can’t be fired, it just means she’s entitled to certain things depending on the circumstances of the termination.

Got down on his hands and knees to pick up the scraps that had fallen to the floor. And he did all this with a rhythm like a dancer with a satisfied smile on his face. And I couldn’t take my eyes off him. He’s going to Make it… “I wonder how long it has been since someone told him he was special.”

Two things:

Cluelessly racist, rather than racist with malice aforethought. She apparently put the “institutional” into institutionalized racism, without even realizing what she was doing. Her lawsuit makes it cler that she has not yet had her consciousness raised on the issue.

“He’s going to Make it… ‘I wonder how long it has been since someone told him he was special.’”

Yeah, yeah, fuck this lady, obs, but the real news? 5 people, one a pregnant woman, got shot up and fucking DIED in March. I consider myself reasonably news-savvy, reading CNN and Huff Post (and Jez) daily and this is the first I’ve heard of it.

Yes, Wendy Bell, blacks AND African Americans work very hard - disproportionately at low wage, low paying, dirty & dangerous jobs only for countless whites to assume blacks do not want to work, are committing crimes & collecting welfare.

Not a representative sample, surely, but one Gawker employee answers that for you in the text of the piece you’re commenting on:

And i see no hope when the source of her satisfaction is to see a black child having to work so hard when her white children can enjoy a nice night out with their family.She must get over herself, she is not special, has never been, just plain old, dusty,rusty unemployed racist. A cliche.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. I am so tired of being “African American” when I’m one of the good ones, and “black” when I’m one of the bad ones, but of course that’s not up to ME to decide.

I actually find the condescension of the second part - about the rhythmic kneeling and cleaning - infinitely worse than the assumptions about the criminals.

Holy crap. I don’t think I have enough words to describe how fucked up both of those posts are. Just... no.

And to top the racism sundae, she just had to get in the dig against single working mothers. My brother and I have different dads, are the children of a single working mother with multiple jobs, and neither of us has turned to a life of crime! Fancy that!

Bell is claiming racial discrimination and a civil rights violation

So to show her nuanced view of race, she contrasts her imagined black teenaged men who committed these crimes with an African-American teenaged “child” with a great sense of rhythm, smiling as he picked up scraps on his hands and knees? Yikes.

But there is HOPE. (etc.)

Middle-aged/older white people always seem to be the worst. The wooooorst. Especially white women because they always get away with racist comments, actions, and ideologies. They’re seriously the least trustworthy people ever.

Seriously how tone deaf do you have to be to not see that you were clearly in the wrong?? Must be nice living in that bubble

had her race not have been white

It’s almost like words have consequences.