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A hospital in Michigan is facing a lawsuit because a patent refused medical treatment from a black woman. The manager sent the message that it was okay to honor patient requests based on race. Similar to the book, Cherry refuses to even talk to Ponyboy just because he is a Greaser."if I see you in the hall and don't say hi, well, it's not personal or anything. […] We couldn't let our parents see us with you all."

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One hospital in Michigan was in hot water over its alleged mistreatment of a Black nurse. Beaumont Health was facing a federal lawsuit after officials allegedly sided with a patient's racist refusal of care because the nurse was an African-American.

The incident at Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn came as so many other people of color were suing their workplaces to fight racial discrimination and repeated incidents of harassment while on the job.

Teoka Williams, who has worked as a Registered Nurse at Beaumont hospital in Dearborn for several years, wasn't standing for any form of disrespect. The unidentified patient referred to Williams as a "Black b***h" last October and wouldn't accept medical help from her, she said, according to the complaint. After a clinical manager was made aware of the issue, the person told the patient that Williams would be "moved." In other words, the manager sent the message that it was okay to honor patient requests based on race.

The clinical manager's next action was even more demeaning for Williams.

The nurse was then told that she couldn't even go into the patient's hospital room, the suit said. Williams was informed that another nurse named Olivia, who is white, would go in the room if the patient or another person needed medical attention. The clinical manager's alleged statements added insult to injury for Williams.

There were several occasions in which the African-American nurse couldn't go in the room to help the patient. The nurse received no support to reverse the decision from the human resources department, which said all patient requests would be honored.

The experience was left Williams feeling "harassed, humiliated and discriminated against," the suit said.

Beaumont has violated the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Michigan's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, the suit alleged. Williams was seeking compensatory and punitive damages, as well as coverage for her court costs and attorney fees, in the case.
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Hospital Faces Lawsuit Over Allegedly Agreeing With Patient Refusing Care Of Black Nurse

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One hospital in Michigan was in hot water over its alleged mistreatment of a Black nurse. Beaumont Health was facing a federal lawsuit after officials allegedly sided with a patient's racist refusal of care because the nurse was an African-American.

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There is a court case that is currently going on where Harvard University is getting accused of "scoring Asian-American applicants lower on the personal rating than the white applicants" meaning that they are treating asian people differently than white people.

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The U.S. Department of Justice is throwing its support behind an anti-affirmative action group that is suing Harvard University over alleged racial discrimination in its admissions policies.

In a document filed in federal court on Thursday, the Justice Department said it is siding with plaintiff Students for Fair Admissions in their request for a trial, which is currently scheduled to begin in mid-October.

The Justice Department said in a press release that Harvard has "failed to show that it does not unlawfully discriminate against Asian Americans."

Harvard has filed a motion for summary judgment in its favor, which if approved by a judge would mean the case would not be tried. It argues that the lawsuit is baseless.

In a statement, Harvard said it was "deeply disappointed" that the Justice Department has taken the plaintiff's side, "recycling the same misleading and hollow arguments that prove nothing more than the emptiness of the case against Harvard."

"Harvard does not discriminate against applicants from any group, and will continue to vigorously defend the legal right of every college and university to consider race as one factor among many in college admissions, which the Supreme Court has consistently upheld for more than 40 years," the university added.

This lawsuit dates back to 2014, and alleges that Harvard is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in programs that receive federal funding. In its court filing Thursday, the Justice Department says Harvard receives "millions of taxpayer dollars every year."

The Justice Department says Harvard's admissions office uses a "personal rating" for applicants. It says in the court filing that the "vague and elusory" scoring system of "subjective" factors could be biased against Asian-Americans. According to the Justice Department, "it scores Asian-American applicants lower on the personal rating than white applicants."

"The Justice Department has determined that Harvard - while using race to make admissions decisions for more than 45 years - has never seriously considered alternative, race-neutral ways to compile a diverse student body, which it is required to do so under existing law," the department said in the press release.

As NPR's Bill Chappell has reported, the plaintiffs argue that the proportion of Asian-Americans admitted to Harvard would be higher if the decision was only based on academics:

"Citing a 2013 analysis by Harvard's Office of Institutional Research, the SFFA said in a federal court filing on Friday that if academics were the only criterion, Asian-American students would have made up more than 43 percent of students who were admitted, rather than the actual 18.7 percent.

"Even if other criteria - such as legacy students, athletic recruiting and extracurricular and personal attributes - are included, the plaintiffs say, the number of Asian-Americans at Harvard would still have risen to more than 26 percent."

Harvard has said that a complete review of its data "does not discriminate against applicants from any group, including Asian-Americans, whose rate of admission has grown 29 percent over the last decade," as Chappell noted.

Also on Thursday, a group of more than 500 social scientists and scholars filed a court document that defends Harvard's admissions policies.

They argue that the plaintiffs are pushing for too narrow a metric of academic achievement (focusing on grades and standardized test scores) to determine admissions. They say it is Harvard's decision - and not the decision of the plaintiffs - "to decide what qualities it values among its many academically qualified applicants."

"Research-based evidence demonstrates that the criteria Plaintiff would have this Court require Harvard to rely on are themselves infected with biases and stereotypes," the social scientists say.

The Justice Department has signaled its interest in this fight before.

Last year, it opened its own probe into the role of race in the Harvard admissions process, which could still result in a separate lawsuit.

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Justice Department Sides Against Harvard In Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

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The U.S. Department of Justice is throwing its support behind an anti-affirmative action group that is suing Harvard University over alleged racial discrimination in its admissions policies. In a document filed in federal court on Thursday, the Justice Department said it is siding with plaintiff Students for Fair Admissions in their request for a trial, which is currently scheduled to begin in mid-October.

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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. I would say that one of the major themes of this book is that outcasts and people who are different from the vast majority get discriminated against and treated unfairly. just because some people are different they get treated unjustly.“Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.” -Ponyboy Curtis

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In the film adaptation of the book, Randy speaks with Ponyboy  about how all this fighting doesn't matter, and that "greasers will still be greasers and socs will still be socs." Meaning that the greasers will always be at the bottom, and the socs will always be on the top.

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Ponyboy, Two-Bit and Randy Meet and Talk at the Tastee Freez | The Outsiders (1983)