Douche Bag Of The Week: Vivica Fox

Are we coming to a point where only black cops can arrest black people? How about juries...must they now be all black if the defendant is black? How about the District Attorney? The Judge?

Can only black bosses fire black employees (see Isaiah Washington)? Would that mean that only black people are allowed to hire black people since they are the only ones allowed to fire them?

This whole thing is really starting to piss me off. Here's another story that surfaced this week about a dumbass diminishing and devaluing the real issue of racism.

Actress Vivica A. Fox called a state patrol officer a "racist white cop" during her drunken driving arrest and repeatedly failed sobriety tests, according to an official report.

The 42-year-old black actress was pulled over in March after passing a CHP officer who said her Cadillac was doing 80 mph and weaving in its lane on the Hollywood Freeway. The officer noticed that Fox's eyes were red and watery and that she had a "strong odor" of alcohol. After she failed sobriety tests, he arrested Fox for investigation of driving under the influence.

"Fox began to walk away, yelling at my partner, 'Brother, help a sister, are you going to let this racist white cop do this. ... Well, are you?'" according to the report.

Breath tests indicated her blood-alcohol level was greater than .08%, CA's legal limit for a driver. She was charged in March with two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit. Her arraignment was scheduled for July 19. If convicted, Fox could face six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

It doesn't take a genius to see that it only takes one false allegation of racism against a white person for them to be reluctant to hire another black person. Years ago, this is precisely what happened to someone I knew. After hiring many black people who performed so well in their jobs that the friends they recommended for hire were quickly added to the staff.

Then one of them had to be fired for poor performance. And then the racism card was played and all the black people that the white manager had hired turned. After a lengthy legal process where it was found that the person was indeed fired for appropriate cause, the manager told me they would never hire another black person again. Another case of let no good deed go unpunished.

The selfish acts of a few made discrimination a part of the hiring process for many. Black job candidates who now come before this hiring manager may actually have a point when it comes to being passed over for employment due to race. But is that the fault of the manager who now sees it as an act of self preservation after going through a emotionally draining ordeal that almost cost them their job? Or is it the fault of a previous employee, having been written up several times for poor performance and eventually terminated, who would rather hold onto their job with a false cry of racism instead of upping their job performance? Regardless of fault, is it fair to the current candidate who had no involvement but is now guilty by association because they have the legal right to charge racism merely by the color of their skin?

It's a shitty situation all the way around. But as far as Vivica Fox is concerned, this week's Douche Bag of the Week, I say, "Throw the racist drunk driver in jail."
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