{"id":12236,"date":"2013-01-26T17:02:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T22:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=12236"},"modified":"2013-01-26T17:02:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T22:02:35","slug":"rap-stars-is-the-daily-news-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=12236","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rap&#8217; Stars, is the Daily News headline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lawyer cries racism &#8230; Past busts exploited.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about American Idol, folks. And a potential lawsuit against it.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s about a lawyer names James Freeman who has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, &#8220;asking for permission to sue the show on behalf of nine humiliated African-American contestants \u2014 all of them male.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See, his argument is that his clients were bounced from American Idol after the show discovered that they had arrest records, which they used &#8220;as an excuse to boot them off the show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s as far as I&#8217;m going in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/tv-movies\/american-idol-racist-lawsuit-accuses-article-1.1247681\">looking through this article<\/a>. I never watched American Idol, never watch any of these &#8220;reality&#8221; shows that embed nasty, stupid bullying and humiliation into our already rotten ever-so-American values.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s an incipient lawsuit and it gives you an idea about how the EEOC works. So read on. If you choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer cries racism &#8230; Past busts exploited. It&#8217;s all about American Idol, folks. And a potential lawsuit against it. 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