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'I don't know about you, but I'm not confident that the town will win this case,” he said.

should be given when they're due, not when it's most convenient to the transgressor.”įernandez said he didn't get elected to continue defending the town in the nearly decade-old discrimination case - but to help resolve it. … I hope we teach our kids that apologies.

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'Some have even said that we shouldn't give an apology away for free when it can be part of a settlement agreement. 'Some have advocated waiting until this case is resolved to apologize to Mr. The proposal: an apology on behalf of the town to Gerald Alston, a firefighter who nine years ago was on the receiving end of a racial slur by his supervisor, and who remains mired in litigation. The first big test of his leadership was at town meeting last week. He was elected to the Brookline Select Board in May. Growing up in the subsidized Taino Towers in Spanish Harlem and later the South Bronx, the Puerto Rican Fernandez would become the first in his family to graduate from college.

But other residents say real change isn’t going to come with an election, but with a new generation of leadership. Now, with the election of Fernandez and a recent town meeting vote in favor of a black firefighter, some Brookline residents are ready for the town to change the way it deals with allegations of racism. A civil rights lawsuit in federal court, originally filed on behalf of nine people, charges town officials with 'enforcing racial subordination … and retaliating against persons who protest racial discrimination.” We bet on Brookline and Brookline said, 'OK, let's do this.’ ”īrookline has been grappling for years with allegations of racism from black and Hispanic employees and residents. 'The bet that we made in our campaign is that residents in Brookline want to do that work and want to be pushed in this domain in terms of thinking about racial equity,” Fernandez said. But his campaign was marked by his commitment to bring the issues he works on at BU - he’s an associate dean of diversity and inclusion - to the fore of town government. The issue of how town government deals with allegations of racism isn't the only reason Fernandez ran. Last month, the Boston University professor was elected as the Brookline Select Board’s first Latino member. Raul Fernandez grew up in New York City, but now he's looking to shake up the government of Brookline.

(Jesse Costa/WBUR) This article is more than 3 years old. We look at cases in the media, within the education system, and the workplace.Raul Fernandez, seen here standing in Coolidge Corner, is the Brookline Select Board’s first Latino member. We look at expressions of xenophobia, nationalism, and prejudice against immigrants and minorities on the basis of the language they speak or their accent. This chapter also examines linguistic discrimination, otherwise known as linguicism. We talk about the problems with the slogan All lives matter, the saying playing the race card, and why people found Donald Trump’s Twitter comment, “I love Hispanics!” to be offensive. For example, we will look at the 1992 Presidential campaign when candidate Ross Perot referred to his audience of African Americans as “You People” in a speech, and the racial controversy surrounding celebrity chef Paula Deen’s use of racial slurs. Following a discussion of overt racism (especially slavery, segregation, and the treatment of Native people in the United States), we discuss several case studies that reveal hidden racism against various groups of people. This chapter investigates historical and modern case studies, and media and popular culture examples of discriminatory language related to race, ethnicity, and national origin.

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