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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
SALISBURY, N.C. — Five white professors in Salisbury, N.C., have filed a lawsuit against Livingstone College, claiming the private college discriminated against them because of the color of their skin.
Although Livingstone's student body is 98 percent black, Brown said the college prides itself on a racially diverse faculty that is currently "43 percent non-African-American."
While racial discrimination suits are nothing new to academia, educators say the cases against Livingstone are part of a growing trend of white professors suing historically black institutions.
race card in employment disputes — a tactic once reserved for minorities. According to Stanfield, who is black, academics of all races claim discrimination more than they should.

"It's one of the most unfortunate tragedies of the post-1960s era," Stanfield said. "We've learned to use race as a political football."

While most discrimination cases filed by white educators challenge affirmative action programs, the Livingstone lawsuits are unique in that the five plaintiffs claim that they are victims of discrimination — period.

But the professors say it has been hard for them to convince other academics to take discrimination against whites seriously.

"Many people are afraid to take a stand because it's not politically correct," Steinberg said.

Bob MacKinnon, Ph.D., who taught psychology at Livingstone until May 2001, said discrimination against white educators is more prevalent than many academics care to admit.

"For every lawsuit that's filed, there's probably 20 that could have been filed," MacKinnon said. "You file these lawsuits at a great price. And the cost for me is that I'm no longer teaching."

Wow!!! I can't believe this is happenin' at the Stone. I attened Livingstone and we has two white faculty members at the time. This is a small college supported by the AMEZion church. Yeah times are truely changing. Once upon a time we use to sue to get or keep a job, now the table is turned. You know if they had just let us stay where we were instead of importing our folkes......We are still haunted by the ghost of 1619. This is too sad.