One day after asking the Director of the Ohio Commission on Minority Health whether Black people suffered higher COVID-19 infection rates because “colored populations” don’t wash their hands as well as others, State Sen. Steve Huffman was fired yesterday from the ER contractor that employed him as a doctor.
“Dr. Huffman’s comments are wholly inconsistent with our values and commitment to creating a tolerant and diverse workplace. TeamHealth has terminated Dr. Huffman’s employment,” the company said in a statement yesterday.
Huffman’s remarks have been roundly condemned, except by Republicans, it seems, who said nothing but did make time yesterday to vote against banning the sale of Confederate flags at county fairs in Ohio. So there’s that.
Ohio State Rep. Stephanie Howse, head of the state’s legislative black caucus, said the Dayton-area Republican’s comments represented the exact sort of systemic racism that should lead Ohio to declare racism a public health crisis.
The ACLU and others have called for Huffman to resign from his seat.
This article appears in Jun 10-16, 2020.
So nice, they decided to run it twice.
Colored? Really? That is soooooo 1960. Not even Negro?
Hell, even Archie got made fun of for saying “the coloreds.”
And that was almost fifty years ago. Has this guy been in a Bunker?
What the arbitrary firing of Steve Huffman by TeamHealth really shows is that a state law should be passed to prohibit employers from firing their employees without just cause.
Steve Huffman not only made a harmless comment while off duty from his private job and without any nexus to his private employment, he also made it while conducting official public business as a state legislator.
The just cause standard for employee discipline should be mandated by state law for every employer.
Imagine, how protesters would feel if their employers fired them without just cause or even a predisciplinary hearing for merely saying something that their employers doesn’t agree with?
This is the main problem with the at-will employment doctrine– that is, an employer can fire an employee for any reason or no reason whatsoever.
What everyone is supposed to be following is the Golden Rule– that is, to treat others as you would have them treat you.
State Representative Stephanie Howse, who made a big fuss about Steve Huffman saying the term “colored population”, when she is an executive committee member of the Cleveland Branch of the National Association of Colored People, should be asked if she feels bad about helping to get Steve Huffman fired.
Sorry for not editing in time. State Representative Stephanie Howse is an executive committee member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which is also referred to by its acronym, NAACP.
State Representative Stephanie Howse doesn’t seem to have a problem with the term “colored people”, or else she wouldn’t be an executive committee member of a well-known organization that has “colored people” in its official name.
Yet, she made a big political fuss about State Representative Steve Huffman using the term “colored population”.
I think she did for political reasons– part of which was to get publicity for herself.
I firmly believe that State Representative Stephanie Howse should be held partly responsible by Ohio voters for getting Steve Huffman fired.
It’s not like he said something like “spook”.
Cum brain vince grzegorek mocks Irish, is overtly racist to white people, promotes and participates in a local riot, hates police, and yet he still has a job and police protection for some reason.
And yet scene staffers can promote a riot, participate in it, lie about it after and then still have jobs. Must be nice to get paid by the Chi-coms.
If only Dr. Huffman had gone for a degree in journalism instead of medicine, he would have been a better public speaker like the writers at Scene.
Somebody should burn down a bodega, spit in a cop’s face and throw a brick at someone’s head because of this. That’ll show ’em!
Scene and other leftists refer to blacks as “colored folk” all the time. Instead of helping them solve the problems in their communities, they blame everything on racism so black people cannot solve the real problems of their communities. Its another leftist trap to black people in perpetual poverty.