NEW - Coach Kevin Broadus reply report to NYDHR and EEOC

On April 26, 2010 I filed through my attorney a 66 page document with the Division of Human Rights and the EEOC.

It is titled “Reply Report of Coach Kevin Broadus to the Submission of the Respondents – including the State University of New York and Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Various Others.” Any issue of workplace discrimination is a matter of acute public concern. I hope you will all read this responsive report and engage in productive public discourse about the issue.

I. INTRODUCTION

a. A Public Lynching.

In 1991, then Judge Clarence Thomas told then Senator Joseph Biden that gossip, lies, sleaze and dirt had been displayed, leaked and fostered against him creating a travesty of justice. Justice Thomas’ words are an equally appropriate response now to the eight-month campaign against Coach Kevin Broadus that culminated in the response filed to this agency by the Zimpher headed SUNY system to his charges of racial discrimination and disparate impact:

No job is worth it. I’m nor here for that. I’m here for my name, my family, my life and my integrity. I think something is dreadfully wrong with this country when any person, any person in this free country would be subjected to this …. This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I’m concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched destroyed, caricatured … rather than hung from a tree. (emphasis supplied)[1]

Not since the hearing on the nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas has a public body and the official who heads it, created, fostered, and embraced such hype of scandal, by commissioning an unusual, a near million dollar incomplete ‘audit’ disregard by avoiding public bid channels, and relying on media reports and television appearances of reporters, in an attempt to justify the employment actions against the only African-American Division I head coach in the SUNY system.
Click below to read the full report (PDF)

Reply Report of Coach Kevin Broadus to the Submission of the Respondents – including the State University of New York and Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Various Others.”