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Missouri raised the standard of proof in employment discrimination cases, therefore it's not safe for black people to travel to Missouri. Sounds like a perfectly rational position to me. Nope, no racial grandstanding at all.
If it is true and motorists are being stopped more and checked for "papers" and have the danger of being mistreated....well, I certainly understand.
Merchants are not going to be happy....but who cars?
That's not why the warning was listed. It's because they passed a bill making people have to prove actual discrimination before suing employers, and to make a claim within 180 days of the incident. At least that's what I got from reading the bill. It is written in such a way that it's not very clear to anyone not a lawyer, so I'm sure there is more to it than I could gather from it.
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That's not why the warning was listed. It's because they passed a bill making people have to prove actual discrimination before suing employers, and to make a claim within 180 days of the incident. At least that's what I got from reading the bill. It is written in such a way that it's not very clear to anyone not a lawyer, so I'm sure there is more to it than I could gather from it.
That is just ONE thing that triggered the warning. It's the actual racism and mistreatment that is their concern:
"Those incidents included racial slurs against black students at the University of Missouri and the death earlier this year of 28-year-old Tory Sanders, a black man from Tennessee who took a wrong turn while traveling and died in a southeast Missouri jail even though he hadn’t been accused of a crime.
“How do you come to Missouri, run out of gas and find yourself dead in a jail cell when you haven’t broken any laws?” asked Rod Chapel, the president of the Missouri NAACP.
“You have violations of civil rights that are happening to people. They’re being pulled over because of their skin color, they’re being beaten up or killed,” Chapel said. “We are hearing complaints at a rate we haven’t heard before.”
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