The Keith John Sampson story
Watch this excellent video from Andrew Marcus covering one of the most outrageous examples of P.C. on campus of the year.
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It’s funny (sad), but when I bring certain political books to work (such as Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter) to read on my breaks/lunches, I do try and keep the spine turned away from prying eyes so as not to “offend” some of the liberal darlings I work with by reading something by an author they don’t approve of.
Amazing story. Excellent documentary.
Keith John Sampson is being racially harassed for the crime of being white…
My god, can the PC crowd get any more unhinged?
Purdue needs a big fat civil suit filed against it and a suit filed against those involved at the university. $10 million might cover the damage done to this man.
Make an example of the school and the persons involved.
If their careers in education are trashed… that’s fine. They earned the pain.
Affirmative Action officers, judges, arbitrators and such are always a bunch of lying, skimming, politically driven goons.The easiest and least expensive way to get a favorable ruling (EEOC-U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) is to stuff an envelope with $100 bills and leave it with your paper work on the hearing officers desk. If you do not want to do that you agree to set up and hire an In-House Affirmative Action Officer–the hearing officers will have a recommendation of just who that should be. Entirely too many companies, organizations and such choose those two paths. That is what gutless punks do–go down like rags.
But the better option is to fight like hell-IF you are in the right of course. You do not just fight the charge–you fight everybody involved. When we got hit with our first “discrimination” charge that is exactly what we did. Poor lad thought he was too sensitive to work nights loading trucks. So we agreed and did not have him work nights loading trucks.
He filed a complaint with the EEOC, they agreed with him and we went to war–two different legal teams following two different tracks.
By law you must respond and we did and had a fine legal office do that.
THEN we sicked Uncle Vitos laws dogs. Well before the hearing we knew EVERYTHING about the complainant, the Hearing officer, their families-everything. The Rocky Mountain States EEOC had to call in Hearing Officers as we disqualified one after another.
It is called Litigation by Annihilation-which is exactly what the EEOC does-they just get upset when it is done to them. The complainant? After awhile he went away-we proved he lied on his job application so did not have standing. Did our defense cost too much? Maybe, but we only had to do it once. We have had other charges filed–but the Investigating agencies do a better job of investigating now.
Those $100 bills in envelopes? It is an open secret in law enforcement and businesses and such. They just chalk it up to the cost of doing business. Rather like a whore’s bail bond I suppose.
I hope Keith John Sampson can find such Law Dog as Uncle Vito.
I disagree. He should ask for $1.
There’s a method to my madness. No jury would ever rule against him; he’s only asking for a buck! It’s a very easy statement to the jury. “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it’s not the money that’s important, it’s the principle of the matter.” Who’s going to vote against that?
When he win’s, he can use the victory as a hammer to get a complaint in the permanent record of those administrators that originally ruled against him!
The money would be nice, but some things are worth more than money.
It’s a PC world gone mad.
Six minutes or so into watching, I got angry. It really p____d me off. We’re supposed to talk. We’re supposed to get along.
How do you talk or get along with a brick wall?
Oh, crap. 9:38-ish. “It was this kind of willful, crusading ignorance…” Great line.
And the book was in their library.
I’m glad FIRE could help the guy. No one should ever have to be afraid to read.
I agree with you, TMT. Sampson doesn’t seem to be a guy who’s out to destroy others. He still works and attends IUPUI. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to be there anymore after that.
This whole episode is an outrage.
Please note that the passage from the Chancellor’s letter did not represent an apology. It was a non-apology apology: “the Chancellor was sorry for any trouble that the November letter caused him”. The Chancellor specifically did not apologize for the Affirmative Action Office’s handling of the complaint, its “investigation” and interview techniques, let alone its “finding” that the student harassed his co-workers. It was a CYA letter to Keith John Sampson issued in an effort to fend off a possible lawsuit. That in and of itself is a disgusting and cowardly act by the Chancellor that deserves rebuke.
Actually, Keith has an opportunity in the future. If he does have a prospective employer that does not accept the circumstancess of his difficulties, he will avoid working for a company of idiots.
I wouldn’t work for a company that might be critical of me reading a book.
Political Correctness, Uber Alles!
IUPUISomething in this story stinks to high heaven and it isn’t Keith John Sampson.
WOW, that was an absurd video to watch!
I bet you all the AA woman was doing was what THE MESSIAH had told her…..GET IN THEIR FACES! YES WE CAN!
Or as one AA congresswoman has said, “We are in charge now!”
This all goes back to the election year political race….and has exposed who the real racists are. Thank you Mr. Hope and Change……….
The currency of the word Kafka-esque went up 56% this week. Why? Because major actions were driven by the hurt feelings of a stupid person. When the personal offense of even a smart person is made to be paramount, then we all suffer for it. Personal offense isn’t the end-all be-all of morality. Such a morality is wrong.
Remember the black DC Assistant to the Mayor a few years ago that lost his job for the use of the word “niggardly” during a budget discussion? The legitimate word was used properly and in context, but because a black council member got his knickers in a twist over a word that “sounded racist” the analyst lost his job.
Some things are just jaw-droppingly stupid on their face. I’m betting that we’ll be seeing a whole lot more of this as bureaucrats up and down the government hierarchy take it upon themselves to “straighten out” this racist country. So much for the advent of a post-racial era…
Arrrggghhh!
The only problem is that the incident happened in 2007.
Then there was the Dallas City Councilman who objected to the scientific term “black hole” when another (white) councilman used it while referring to an office where paperwork went to disappear.
Jeez.
God save me from idiots. Yes, I know it is a full-time job, but, since You aren’t allowed in schools anymore, maybe You can make the time.
ECS
Wow,
So, this poor guy is persecuted for reading a book – IN THE SCHOOL’s OWN LIBRARY – while on the job and one of his co-workers is [supposedly] “offended” by it (but, apparently, not offended enough to tell the guy that.. hmmmmm).
Obvious questions remain:
1. Why is this Ms. Watkins still on the payroll?
2. Why does this AA/EEO office yield unreasonable and disproportionate power?
3. Why didn’t the apology come from the AA/EEO office as opposed to the Pres. of the University?
This is a school I’d never recommend to anyone I know (that I had even lukewarm regards for…).
I remember reading/hearing about that case. Never did read/hear about the conclusion.
I wish that wherever a story is told, say above the fold, that any follow-ups be placed there as well.
Wonder how many of the msm are still in the gene pool?
All the fascist goons involved, and the offendee, should be publicly flogged until they are fully versed and understand the meaning of harassment. This video should be a shining example to be shown to those that doubt that the Fairness Doctrine would be an abuse of civil rights.
So I’m sure that all of you feel the same way about the professor who was put on the No-Fly list for reading a book? And before you ask; no, the book was not the koran.
The woman in the AA office was abusing her power, no question. It’s a perfect example of the ignorance of some infringing on the rights of us all. The complaintant was functionally illiterate and could only see that the book dealt with the Klan and her ignorance was the spark. It should have gone nowhere. I think she should have been the one to apologize as well as the University President.
At the risk of feeding a troll, talkin_bout, to whom are you referring?
I was curious as to when someone was going to mention something addressing this.
She can’t READ and holds a position of power???? What the hell? How did she EVEN GET THE POSITION? Just one more reason, I have a major problem with people who have a degree that believe they are so much better than those that don’t.
Sounds to me as she should return to grammar school as that is the level of her education.
UNREAL!!!!
Teachem2:
I’m sorry, I actually mixed up two separate stories. A young man named Neil Godfrey was not allowed to board a plane in October 2001 because he was reading a best-selling novel, called “Hayduke Lives”.
In 2006, Professor Walter Murphy was not able to board a flight because he was on the terrorist watch list. He was on this list because he had given a lecture criticizing the Bush Administration’s infringement of constitutional rights to privacy.
And I don’t consider myself a troll; I just don’t like double standards. I call them out on HuffPo all the time
talkin_bout, the deal with Professor Walter Murphy was totally overblown. He WAS able to get on the flight and the idea that he was on the list because of a lecture that criticized the Bush administration was pure conjecture on the professor’s part. An airport worker, not even TSA employed, was the one that said to the professor, “oh, yeah that’ll do it.” That worker had no knowledge of how they placed people on the list. If he had truly been on the list and not just with a similar or same name, he would not have gotten on the flight and he was given a boarding pass after clearing up the problem within a few minutes.
As for Neil Godfrey, not that I condone anyone judging or being judged by a book they are reading, it was 29 days after 9/11 and he was carrying a book that had what was described as a bomb on the cover. Again, I don’t condone it, but I can understand it. The story I read regarding what happened to him seemed somewhat incomplete and one-sided. I think there was more to the story than just him having the book. That being said, it doesn’t compare to this story. This student was in no way compromising anyone’s security and safety. With Neil Godfrey, it wasn’t just offending someone who was illiterate, they had security concerns. Because of the differences of the two cases, I don’t think it’s a double standard at all.
CCC, it wasn’t the woman in the AA office that was illiterate, it was the woman who made the complaint. It was a coworker of the student.
Teachem2:
I see where you are coming from on Godfrey; less than a month after 9/11, it’s understandable.
However, I think all these cases speak to a larger issue of pre-judging, whether it’s because of a book with a bomb on the cover or the Klan on the cover.
If some self loathing hussy in Indiana can propagate this sort of incident wait until Obama gets to work.
Damned guess I need to take a comprehension test don’t I? HAHA!!!
To add on though the comment still stands. What is a person that can’t read doing in college?????
This crap makes me sick to my stomach…Damn it I want my country back!
Affirmative action my a$$, nothing but an excuse for a racist to use their so called power over another. these minorities need it brought to their attention the vast majority of whites in America never were racist..but if they keep this crap up they see racist alright and it won’t be pretty.
Odummy is very likely to bring about the 2nd American Revolution.
Be prepared folks it’s going to get very ugly.
You know, as much as I hate to say it, now the O is going to be president, excuse me, dictator, of the USA, this kind of thing will happen with more frequency and will get progressively worse.
This is no longer the USA I grew up in.
Cal City,
Is that Cal City or just a Cal City? Because I used to live in Cal City. That would be the Antelope Vally Cal City.
Its the same thing that will follow the Duke Lax team, and Crystal Mangum (even though she should be in jail right now).
I agree that a several million dollar lawsuit and mandatory sensitivity training for the local EEO/AA Department. Personally it should be taught by former members of either the KKK or neo-nazi party. (or pick a favorite troll to it)
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
Mookie did point out the occurrence date of 2007, but this IS the Black Liberation Theology train of thought ( Hussein was still going to that wonderful church in ‘07) that has gained strength over the last 40 years.
BLT teaches Black power, to gain power using all tools available and use them at all costs against whites, to get even, to get payback against ‘GD white America’.
These actions were taught to the illiterate woman (and enforced by Ms. Affirmative Action Watkins ) by someone exactly like Rev. GD Wright.
This should be in a book, maybe something called “The Age of Obama”?
Lets see what he does to help the future Keith John Sampson’s out there who have the misfortune of reading a book. Maybe a history book on the civil war is deemed to racist as well?
Obama should NOT be allowed to use Lincoln’s Bible at the inauguration if we use PC BLT revisionist Affirmative Action rules of thought.
Agreed. I’m thinking he should go after the individuals personally (if legally possible) for their abuse of their positions (reminding me of Haman in the book of Esther).