{"id":29853,"date":"2013-03-26T03:36:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T03:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29853"},"modified":"2013-03-26T03:36:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T03:36:16","slug":"paralegal-claims-discrimination-by-law-firm-because-of-mixed-race-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29853","title":{"rendered":"Paralegal claims discrimination by law firm because of mixed-race heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/setexasrecord.com\/news\/283198-paralegal-discriminated-by-law-firm-because-of-mixed-heritage-according-to-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\">Paralegal claims discrimination by law firm because of mixed-race heritage<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/setexasrecord.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Southeast Texas Record: Southeast Texas&#8217; Legal Journal<\/a><br \/>\nBeaumont, Texas<br \/>\n2013-03-25<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Suayan<\/strong>, Galveston Bureau<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montgomery_County,_Texas\" target=\"_blank\">Montgomery County<\/a> resident Darren Chew claims he was subjected to racial discrimination while working for a collections law firm and has filed a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Recent court papers filed March 15 in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas allege Rausch Sturm Israel Enerson &amp; Hornik LLC mistreated Chew because of his mixed heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff, whose father is of Chinese descent and mother white, worked as a paralegal\/paraprofessional at the time of the events in question.<\/p>\n<p>He states that derogatory racial terminology was often used at the respondent\u2019s office and within the management\u2019s earshot.<\/p>\n<p>According to the suit, Chew was occasionally referred to as a \u201cchink\u201d, \u201cchinaman\u201d, \u201cUncle Tom\u201d and \u201ccracker\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/setexasrecord.com\/news\/283198-paralegal-discriminated-by-law-firm-because-of-mixed-heritage-according-to-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paralegal claims discrimination by law firm because of mixed-race heritage The Southeast Texas Record: Southeast Texas&#8217; Legal Journal Beaumont, Texas 2013-03-25 John Suayan, Galveston Bureau HOUSTON \u2013 Montgomery County resident Darren Chew claims he was subjected to racial discrimination while working for a collections law firm and has filed a lawsuit. Recent court papers filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1467,8,1249,20],"tags":[14185,14182,14184,14183],"class_list":["post-29853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-law","category-media-archive","category-texas","category-usa","tag-darren-chew","tag-john-suayan","tag-the-southeast-texas-record","tag-the-southeast-texas-record-southeast-texas-legal-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}