Childish Prank or Racial Hatred?

If you haven’t heard, Tennie Pierce is a Los Angeles fireman that was awarded 2.7 million dollars in a racial discrimination suit. Some of Pierce’s firefighting buddies thought it would be funny to have Pierce unknowingly eat dog food. Well I’m sure it wasn’t so funny once the prank escalated to a near 3 million dollar court case settlement. But the plot thickened – the Mayor stepped in, and overturned the verdict. New evidence was brought to surface, and now the public learns that these hazing “pranks” are old hat within the Fire Department. Not only are they commonplace, but Pierce was no stranger to being on the torturing end of these stunts. Several photos show Pierce and his buddies hazing many a colleague. And in the pictures that I saw Pierce is either smiling or laughing in most of them, or giving a thumbs up to the camera. So with this new evidence, the Mayor saw no reason for such a settlement since this was nothing new to Pierce.

Pierce’s attorneys are obviously counter suing.

So the question is asked… Was the dog food prank just another silly stunt of the firefighters, and Pierce didn’t like having the shoe on the other foot? Or was this incident provoked by racial discrimination?

Now I haven’t walked in Tennie’s shoes, but I also know that dog food won’t kill you. I don’t know… the only think I keep thinking is, “Don’t give it if you can’t take it.”

We’ll see what happens.
~jaz