Open Letter to President Obama HELP ME: Employment Discrimination Hurts, Kills, and Destroys Victims

Updated 1/1/16 I Pray that President Obama will use his 1/12/16 SOTU Address to discuss employment discrimination and RACISM. If President Obama looks racism in the face and doesn't blink it will help GOTV for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Updated August 27, 2015, RIP Alison Parker and Adam Ward--- Bryce Williams shooting and murdering people was unacceptable and wrong even if he was a victim like me of employment discrimination and retaliation.

                 

I am the mother of a Marine who served this country for four years as a military police officer. My son is currently a police officer. I am also an African-American woman who was unjustly terminated by New York State Department of Correctional Services on November 2, 1998, after filing an employment discrimination lawsuit on October 15, 1997.
 I believe that former LA cop Christopher Dorner’s and Bryce Williams deadly ordeals, my personal employment discrimination experience and legal case, and your 2012 reelection make this a perfect time to address employment discrimination. One of the possible ways that you can address this issue which I believe contributes to the high unemployment rate in African-Americans communities is to assemble a council or board to address and investigate employment discrimination in this country.

Bryce Williams ( Vester Flanagan) and Christopher Dorner’s inexcusable reaction to their alleged employment discrimination was to KILL. In the end both Flanagan and Dorner also died for work related interactions that they labeled employment discrimination. 

My appropriate but unsuccessful reaction to my three-year hostile work environment and four-year Pro-Se legal battle against Eliot Spitzer and his staff was to seek legal redress. I appealed the dismissal of my case by the District Court to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. The Court refused to review it. The US Supreme Court got my case wrong just like they did in the Citizen United case.

I wrote a book that includes direct evidence including original documents uploaded as pictures that proves my allegations of discrimination and retaliation. I mailed copies of the original book titled "A Case of Employment Discrimination and Retaliation Real or Imagined" to you and Eric Holder.

 I created blogs, contacted Buffalo New York District Attorney, who confirmed that Spitzer filed perjured declarations, and in 2005 emailed documents to 2 United States Justice Department attorneys, who referred the case to the FBI after confirming that declarations and/or depositions in case were perjured. Despite the direct evidence that supported perjury George W. Bush Justice Department didn't charge anyone with perjury in my case.

I contacted print, radio, and television media personalities, posted videos and reports on CNN-I-Report and Youtube that highlighted it.  I matched with Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III for Jobs and Justice on October 15, 2011, in Washington, DC. I voted for you in 2008 and volunteered as a Vote Corps volunteer for OFA at my own expense in  Norfolk, VA for your successful 2012 reelection.

I hoped and prayed that someone will give my story a voice. I prayed that you would use my story and case to make America a more just nation by helping racial employment discrimination victims. 

My prayer today (January 1, 2016) is that you will finally acknowledge that you are aware of all of my efforts. That you will use your last State of the Union to address the fact that my case is an undeniable example of employment discrimination.

You can help change hearts and minds about racism by telling nation that employment discrimination in many cases is REAL. You can tell them to read many of my blogs or book to view the evidence for themselves.

My FACTUAL allegation is that Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed seven (7) perjured declarations in a district federal court. All of the following people employed by New York State signed their respective perjured declarations: Mike Russo, New York State Assistant Attorney General (who is still employed by NYS AG office), Gerald Goncalves (Hispanic male), Diversity Management, Superintendent Anginell Andrews (African-Amer), Sergeant William Reed (White male), James Berbary (White male), and Deputy Superintendent of Administration, and Lee Gould, (Jewish?)Director of Personnel have never been held accountable for committing the crime of perjury. 

New York State Assistant Solicitor Generals Nancy A. Spiegel and Denise A. Hartman Appellant's Brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Court also contained perjured statements. One of the lies presented several times in the brief was that I was terminated December 7, 1998. The Defendants admitted in their answer to my February 19, 1999, that I was terminated on November 2, 1998. 

In their Brief Hartman and Spiegel purposely deceived the court when discussing the January 29, 1999, court order that granted my motion to amend my complaint to include the retaliatory November 2, 1998, termination. Their brief  just like Spitzer's summary judgment Memorandum of Law and declaration of Mike Russo contained the perjured statement that I was terminated on December 7, 1998.

As of today’s date September 1, 2015,  (February 11, 2013 original date of post), none of my actions have been successful in giving me peace, justice, clearing my name, receiving entitled disability retirement benefits, and/or getting you to amend Civil Rights Act 1964 or address the destructive role that employment discrimination plays in Black lives.

Unlike BORNER I believe in God and Jesus and that belief has keep me sane and HOPEFUL that I will be VICTORIOUS in this matter. I hope and pray that my 18 year extremely emotional and financial painful ordeal will lead to you President Obama signing another employment discrimination Executive Order to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 again.

Mr. President, the first bill you as president was Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. That bill was a victory to mostly white women. Is it possible to amend Title VII with an Executive Order? If it is will you sign another Executive Order using my case to justify your action to help other African-Americans employment discrimination victims from being victimized again by the judicial system. 

Employers shouldn't be rewarded for unlawful Title behavior with a summary judgment order.  More importantly victims of unlawful discrimination and retaliation shouldn't have their cases unjust dismissed at the district court level. One federal judge shouldn't have the absolute authority to dismiss Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VII cases based on summary judgment motions.

I am aware of the fact that " the salutary purpose of summary judgment—avoiding protracted, expensive and harassing trials --apply no less to discriminatory cases than to commercial or other areas of litigation" Meiri v Dacon, 759 F.2d 989, 998 (2d cir.), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 829 (1985).

The salutary purpose of summary judgment and the rights of all Americans to fair and equal justice can both be accomplished with a well written and defined amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Amending the Civil Rights Act again would prevent one judge from having the absolute power to grant summary judgment motions that dismiss Title VII (discrimination and retaliation) cases and victims right to a jury trial.

Vera Richardson
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Bravo to President Obama and His All White Male National Security Team

Some people including Joe Scarborough have been quite vocal in their criticism of President Obama national security appointments nominee because they are all white men. I disagree with Scarborough. I applaud President Obama for his national security nominees John Brennan, John Kerry, and Chuck Hagel, who are all white highly qualified men.

One of the most important tasks for this nation’s first African-American president or any president is the national security of this nation. Dr. King’s vision and the 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 advocates hiring or appointing the best person for a job or position based on their qualifications and not the color of their skin, gender, or national origin. In selecting his national security team President Obama hired the most qualified people who in this case happened to be ALL WHITE MEN.

Vera Richardson
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My Life: A Story of Racism, Prayer, History, Determination, and HOPE

On January 6, 2013, my youngest daughter emailed me a poem that she wrote for me. Her kindness and thoughtful act encouraged me and warmed my heart.

 Mom-- An original in all of your ways. Your life is a story of prayers and history, converging to birth one of a kind. The outhouses of Quincy were supposed to shackle you.

You were supposed to settle with scraps wallow in ignorance, strive for nothing,
A migrant worker's trip to Brockport supposed to solidify your inferiority-- Instead it released a wave of hope a wave of determination Faith.

And though this faith has been tried And though your path has languished in the unknown This hope, this determination, this faith still beckons

There is pride in your children There is pride in your feats. But the past shall not keep you. You must continue to journey on.

 Some of your steps will be in the dark. The path will narrow, leaving room only enough for one. Fear not, turn away never. An original in all of your ways.

Vera Richardson
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President Obama Please Address My Employment Discrimination Case with Governor Cuomo

I have been waiting for President Obama’s reelection so that he could address my employment discrimination case and take action to make me whole. On November 15, 2012, President Obama received a bear hug from Andrew Cuomo. Therefore, I decided that today was a great day to bring employment discrimination in general and my employment discrimination case in particular to both of these elected officials of the Democratic Party.

 President Obama I am respectfully requesting that you and Governor Andrew Cuomo do the right thing and make me whole for NYS Attorney General's Office filing 7 perjured declaration in my employment discrimination case, firing me in retaliation for filing a lawsuit alleging discrimination, and denying the appeal of my disability retirement application. Therefore, I am entitled to back pay from my denied disability retirement application from New York State Department of Correctional Service.

I am also respectfully requesting that you use an executive order if necessary to amend Title VII (employment discrimination) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 again like you did in Ledbedder's case. Amending the Act again will prevent one judge from have the authority to dismiss employment discrimination cases based on summary judgment motions.

I did this report to bring my true employment and retaliation case that includes the unjust denial of my disability retirement application (DRA) to the attention of Andrew Cuomo. In the past Governor Cuomo responded to my letter and email seeking redress and the approval of my the DRA by stating that as Attorney General of NY he couldn't help me. In his new role as governor he still hasn't contacted me or taken any action to make me whole.

 Vera Richardson
Author of Screwed by Former Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer click link to preview proof of Spitzer and J Goncalves perjury which means I was denied JUSTICE in my case. You don't have to have a Kindle to get this book it can be downloaded to your smart phone or Kindle.

Romney Can Americans Especially Hispanic Americans Trust You?

My question for Romney: How can Americans especially those Hispanic Americans who pay little or no taxes therefore are part of the 47 percent that you stated are government-dependent "victims" who believe they are "entitled" trust your October 2, 2012 position on the special visa issued by President Obama? On October 2, 2012, Romney stated to a writer at the Denver Post : "The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is a two-year visa, should expect that the visa would continue to be valid. I am not going to take something that they purchased.” Before Romney latest flip flop he was against the Dream Act, Texas In a September 30, 2011, post on”the Hill” website featured a Mitt Romney’s primary web ad video, titled "Thank you Governor Perry.” The ad attacked Perry for stating during a debate that he supported in state tuition rates for immigrants’ children. ** Today October 2, 2012, the ad is no longer available online and is labeled private.

Is Romney, Rove, and Republican Governors Planning to Steal the 2012 Presidential Election?

Has Mitt Romney’s blind ambition to become president caused him to lose all sense or reality (joining Rove and Dick Morris that ALL the presidential polls are wrong); or is he showing the world that he is not fit to become president because he changes positions and facts at will; AND/OR has Rove and Republican governors of swing states PROMISED Romney like Jed Bush PROMISED George Bush Florida in 2000, that he is winning their states electoral college votes? WE THE PEOPLE can’t remain silent in 2012. We must demand a fair presidential election on November 6, 2012. Vera Richardson Author of Screwed by Former Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

President Obama’s 2012 Re-Election Will be More Historic than his 2008 Election

 

When Barack Obama ran for President in 2008, it was an historic election. The prospect of voting for America's first African-American president brought black folks to the polls who had never voted before. People voted early, stood in long lines, some were in wheelchairs or on walkers -- but the passion and enthusiasm were palpable in black communities across America.

The rights and opportunities that our ancestors marched for finally came to fruition on election night, November 4, 2008, when the votes were cast and the T.V. networks announced that Barack Obama had been elected the 44th President of the United States. Tears of joy were shed across America by young and old.

Some of us mistakenly thought that, with President Obama's election, we had finally arrived. We could take it easy and not have to press so hard for our rights to be affirmed.

We underestimated the backlash from the opposition. Those who did not vote for Obama and who thought a black man would never occupy the White House -- either through prejudice, ignorance or defiance of authority -- quickly rose up in anger and indignation. The Tea Party was formed and we've seen their influence on politics in general and the Republican Party, in particular.

In his September 24, 2011, speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, President Obama was speaking for me and to me when he said, “Throughout our history, change has often come slowly. Progress often takes time. I never promised easy. Easy has never been promised to us. But we’ve had faith. We have had faith. We’ve had that good kind of crazy that says you can’t stop matching.”

“Even when folks were hitting you over the head you can’t stop matching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop. Even when somebody fires you for speaking out, you can’t stop. Even when it looks like there’s no way, you find a way—you can’t stop. Through the mud and muck and the driving rain, we don’t stop. Because we know the rightness of our cause-widening the circle of opportunities, increasing each other’s prosperity. We know our cause is just. It’s a righteous cause.”

It will be difficult to duplicate the magic of the 2008 campaign, but we can't afford to sit down -- you have to put on your marching shoes once again and work to re-elect President Obama in 2012! You need to not only vote, but work in the trenches to put President Obama back in the White House for four more years.

Don't be fooled. With Republican legislatures around the country attempting to make voting more difficult in poor and minority communities, the election in 2012 matters more than ever!

Here's why President Obama's re-election is important:

1. He cares about ordinary people -- the poor, middle class and those hardest hit by the recession.

2. He can keep the right-wing forces from enacting discriminatory policies and enacting more voter suppression legistation across America.

3. He can appoint more federal and Supreme Court justices who are sensitive to the needs of blacks and other minorities.

4. The presence of the Obama First Family in the White House is an important positive symbol for our young people and others around the world.

5. America needs President Obama's continued outstanding foreign policy experience during an unstable international environment.

President Obama has instituted "Operation Vote" to make it easier for African-American communities to organize for 2012. What are you willing to do?

Here are some things you can do to help with President Obama's re-election:

1. Make sure you have the proper documents to vote by securing a state-issued driver's license or photo I.D., if you don't already have one.

2. Sign up as a voting registrar and register people to vote in your neighborhood.

3. Host a fundraiser for President Obama in your home or through one of your community organizations; and/or send a personal contribution to his re-election campaign online.

4. Post information via social media like Facebook and Twitter encouraging your friends to vote for President Obama's re-election.

5. Encourage your church or pastor to host voter registration drives.

6. Stay informed about the presidential election campaign by watching news broadcasts each day.

7. Voice you support for President Obama’s agenda and vision for this country on popular blog sites, radio and television websites, YouTube, and CNN.com I-Reports.

8. Write letters to the editor or commentaries in support of President Obama and submit them to your local daily newspaper.

It will take a concerted effort from all of us to get President Obama re-elected. Put on your marching shoes and let's get to work!

Vera Richardson

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