SCOTUS will not be deciding a case on the N-Word in the workplace

I'm disappointed that the US Supreme Court decided NOT to decide a Title VII case involving the N-Word.

Collier v. Dallas County Hospital District [Briefs] [5th Circuit decision] seemed like the perfect case to grapple with the question of "Whether an employee’s exposure to the N-word in the workplace is severe enough to send his Title VII hostile-work-environment claim to a trier of fact."

The N-Word was scratched into an elevator that the employees used, and it stayed there for months.

And the District Court and the 5th Circuit held that this was not serious enough, and not pervasive enough, to alter the terms and conditions of the employee’s employment and create an abusive workplace.

The lower courts are split in terms of how they exactly handle the N-Word, but this case is just plain wrong. This is a case where a jury – not a judge – ought to be deciding whether there's an abusive workplace.

It's time to get the N-Word out of the workplace.