Racism, or Criminal Justice?

While scrolling through facebook today, I saw three news articles pertaining to the same topic. Racism. While this is still a problem in the US today, I don't think people can continue hiding behind it the way they do.

Fox13 posted this article: http://fox13now.com/2014/09/14/django-unchained-actress-claims-she-was-cuffed-for-showing-public-affection/, claiming that the woman had been detained due to her race.

In this case, racial profiling probably was a high factor. But lately, I have seen more and more people claiming that they were singled out, or mistreated, because of their race. It reminds me of a comment that Andrew made in class a few weeks back, saying that because of our history, it's okay to call white's white trash but the second someone says "yellow jap" they're in trouble. We are overcompensating for our mistake in the mistreat of the other races, but that doesn't excuse their behavior now. The second they pull the "race card" they're untouchable.

Illegal or Immoral?

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=157&sid=31468456&title=protest-over-schools-firing-of-pregnant-teacher

In Michigan, a chemistry teacher was reportedly fired after becoming pregnant. The catch? Shes lesbian.

Isn't it illegal to fire someone for becoming pregnant? Even if this is a Catholic School, they shouldn't be able to fire someone for things such as this. Was her pregnancy hurting anyone? No. Was her same-sex attraction hurting anyone? No. Was them firing her, hurting anyone? Yes; her. She has lost that source of income, and pretty soon she's going to have an extra mouth to be feeding.

Why would anyone think this was okay?