Griffin and Low were awarded money in a lawsuit involving racial discrimination, Does reverse discrimination occur in the United States today? In January 2011, the city of Kansas City, MO lost its second multi-million dollar employment discrimination lawsuit in a one-week period. Former city employees, Jordan Griffin and Coleen Low, were awarded $345,000 and $517,000 respectively by the jury. Griffin, a former senior analyst and revenue commissioner, says she was given the nickname “White Chocolate” in the false belief that it would encourage minority hiring. She also says she was harassed when she refused to participate in the partial hiring process and that she was passed over for an interview for the position of Commissioner of Revenue on a permanent basis because it was already "predetermined" that the position would be filled by an African American . When then-Senior Analyst Low spoke on behalf of her colleague, she said the city fired her, too. The assistant city attorney said that the city did nothing wrong and that the city was forced to lay off 73 more people that year due to the collapse of the economy (Evans). Did Griffin and Low deserve the money they were compensated for and is there reverse discrimination? Another even more important case was Ricci v. DeStefano. This landmark case, which most likely led to Griffin and Low being compensated as they were, began in 2003 when nineteen firefighters filed a lawsuit against the city of New Haven, Connecticut, alleging that the city discriminated against them regarding promotions. Of these firefighters, seventeen are Caucasian and two are Hispanic, all of whom had passed the city test for promotion to manager. New Haven officials invalidated the test results because none of the b... half of paper... Northup, Temple. "Is everyone a little racist? Exploring cultivation using implicit and explicit measures." Southwest Journal of Mass Communication 26.1 (2010): 29-41. Communication and mass media completed. EBSCO. Network. 21 April 2011.crob80231, . “Are Progressives Subconsciously Racist Against Caucasians?” Open Salon, 10 December 2011. Web. 21 April 2011. "RICCI against DeSTEFANO." LII | Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School. April 22, 2009. Web. April 21, 2011. Reid, Landon D., and Kristen E. Birchard. “People Protest Too Much: Explaining Subtle Racism.” Journal of Language and Social Psychology 29.4 (2010): 478-490. Communication and mass media completed. EBSCO. Network. April 21. 2011.