Griffin and Low received money in a racial discrimination lawsuit. Does reverse discrimination exist in the United States today? In January 2011, the city of Kansas City, Missouri lost its second employment discrimination lawsuit by $1 million in one week. Former city employees Jordan Griffin and Coleen Low were awarded $345,000 and $517,000, respectively, from the jury. Griffin, a former senior analyst and revenue commissioner, claims she was given the nickname "White Chocolate" because she mistakenly believed she would favor minority hires. She also says she was harassed when she refused to participate in the biased hiring process and was unable to interview for the position of revenue commissioner on a permanent basis because it was already “predetermined” that the position would be filled by an African American. When Low, then a senior analyst, spoke on her colleague's behalf, she said the city had fired her, too. The assistant city attorney said the city did nothing wrong and was forced to lay off an additional 73 people that year due to the downturn in the economy (Evans). Did Griffin and Low deserve the money they were compensated and is there reverse discrimination? Another even more high-profile case was Ricci v. DeStefano. This landmark case, which most likely led to Griffin and Low being awarded the way they were, began in 2003 when nineteen firefighters filed a lawsuit against the city of New Haven, Connecticut, alleging that the city ​​had discriminated against them in matters of promotions. Of those firefighters, seventeen are white and two are Hispanic, and all passed the city's test for promotion to management. New Haven officials invalidated the test results because none of the b...... middle of paper ......Northup, Temple. “Is everyone a little bit racist?” Exploring cultivation using implicit and explicit measures. Southwest Journal of Mass Communication 26.1 (2010): 29-41. Communication and mass media completed. EBSCO. Internet. April 21, 2011.crob80231, . “Are progressives unconsciously racist against Caucasians?.” Open show, December 10, 2011. Web. April 21, 2011. “RICCI v. DeSTEFANO.” II | Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School. April 22, 2009. The web. April 21, 2011. .Reid, Landon D. and Kristen E. Birchard. “The people protest too much: explaining subtle racism.” Journal of Language and Social Psychology 29.4 (2010): 478-490. Communication and mass media completed. EBSCO. Internet. April 21. 2011.