Booked into a white club aptly named the Plantation, Eckstine was fired for using the front door instead of the "colored" rear entrance.
A recent spoof landed some lifeguards in California in trouble: news reports say they were fired for using city property as their set.
In 1990, the Supreme Court moved away from the equality principle in a case that rejected the claim of Al Smith, who fought his denial of unemployment compensation after he was fired for using peyote during ritual Native American worship.
But his MSNBC morning program, which replaced the TV simulcast of "Imus in the Morning" when Don Imus was fired for using racially charged language in 2007, resembles a radio show and attracted interest from radio networks earlier in the year.
To avoid the fate which befell Kimberley Swann, who was fired for using Facebook for describing her job as "boring", identify and remove any public messages that don't serve your best interests, then apply social media privacy settings to ensure rants reach only trusted friends.
Kippenberger quit school at the age of fifteen and, in short order, trained as a window dresser, was fired for using drugs, travelled in Scandinavia, underwent psychotherapy at a farm near Hamburg, lived in various communes, and studied at the Hamburg Art Academy.
In Kathryn Stockett's novel "The Help", set in the early 1960s, a black maid is fired for using an indoor toilet rather than braving a tornado to use the outhouse; her revenge, involving a chocolate pie, is not for the squeamish.Times have changed.
But she was also a meth addict, and shortly after de Villers died, she was fired for using meth.
Elsewhere in the report, a staffer was referenced as being fired for using "an official vehicle of the Organization to transport approximately 173 kilograms of marijuana".
And so what makes me angry is knowing how many 'good people' want to go to sleep believing that everything in the world of 'race' is ok -- as long as people like Paula Deen are fired for using the n-word.
