Joscelin Thomas, a former coordinator in the Davis School District’s equal opportunity office, alleges in a federal lawsuit that district staff treated her “as if she were stupid,” accused her of having a substandard work ethic and denied her training and mentorship opportunities that were offered to her white colleagues.
“From the beginning of her employment, Dr. Thomas was treated differently than her lighter-skinned and non-Black coworkers and was subject to a hostile work environment,” the complaint states.
Thomas was part of a wave of new hires in 2022 after the U.S. Department of Justice ordered the district in a settlement agreement to create an office tasked with investigating and addressing reports of racial harassment. The order stemmed from a 2021 federal investigation, which uncovered widespread racial harassment of Black and Asian American students in the district just north of Salt Lake City, including hundreds of documented uses of the N-word and other derogatory epithets over a five-year period.
The kids are learning it somewhere. Usually it’s at home but from the sound of it there must be some “being a racist shitbag 101” class the white students all take as well.
This is most assuredly part of the local culture and not just some bad eggs.
Very possible that the school district has a high percentage of Mormons.
This is what happens when the old boys meet the law. Those old boys are happy to waste all those tax dollars, all for the right to abuse and ruin lives. Sad.
