27 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1553, 28 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 32,422 Carl Rucker, Cross-Appellee v. Higher Educational Aids Board, Cross-Appellant

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This is an employment discrimination case, based primarily on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. The plaintiff, Carl Rucker, was a supervisor for the defendant, the Higher Educational Aids Board, a Wisconsin state agency that provides counseling services to disadvantaged youths. Rucker, who is black, contends that the Board fired him because he opposed the efforts of his superiors to discriminate on racial and sexual grounds against a white woman who worked for the Board, Mary Phillips. Thus he invokes 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3(a), which so…