Reply #43: It was more than just a racial epithet. You guys are so hung up thinking [View All]

[Solomon]

this is about civil rights but it's not. It's no different than a car accident case. You get to sue for damages. Nothing to do with civil rights.

They were pointed out in front of a live audience and humiliated.
They get damages for that, plain and simple. Not because they were called a racial epithet, but because they were defamed and humiliated.

Does a black man have a right to be in a public place and not be publicly defamed and humiliated? Does he have to get whipped to have a cause of action?

I think a lot of people are due for some introspection about why they are so hard on dissing the plaintiffs here without knowing anything about them except the color of their skin.