Journalist Ahmar Mustikhan has deplored a St. Mary’s Small Claims Court judge’s decision in favor of a racist publisher.

“It has proved beyond an iota of doubt that even today in Little Dixie, if not the entire U.S., if the criminal is a white male and the victim a person of color, there’s little chance of getting justice,” Mustikhan said.
St. Mary’s is also called Little Dixie.

Mustikhan was commenting on a small claims court judgment in favor of Kenneth C. Rossignol, publisher of ST. MARY’S TODAY. “I am in a state of shock at this mockery of justice.”

He said Rossignol could not look him into the eyes during the entire trial.

“To my utter disgust, the judge joined Rossignol in the silence and never ordered the criminal to respond to my questions,” he said. “Anyone can listen to it on the court tapes.”

He said he told the court in his concluding arguments that he has written proof that his last week’s pay was not given to him by Rossignol, but was stunned when the judge said now it’s too late.

The judge decided in favor of Rossignol as he thought the nearly $1240 that Rossignol owed Mustikhan in last week’s pay, unpaid gas reimbursement and bank fines is equal to the $700 advance Rossignol had given to the journalist.

“I never lied under oath”, but Rossignol did so when he said he did not recall I called to him from the bank manager’s office that his two paychecks have bounced.

“That was a lie under oath,” Mustikhan thundered.

He said he had never asked for the advance which was given to him for changing his car registration as Rossignol said his enemies might report the issue of Louisiana registration to the police. “Where on earth is $1240 equal to $700, anyways? In Little Dixie yes it is, if the culprit is white.”

Mustikhan said had Rossignol been a person of color he would certainly have paid the price..

“Rossignol did not allow me use of my actual name as he said anyone could find out that I am gay by googling my name,” Mustikhan recalled.

 
Rossignol interviewing St. Mary’s Commissioner Dan Raley

He said Rossignol also routinely used to call his race rag-head.

Mustikhan was particularly offended when Rossignol said he did not like a picture as there was a rag-head in it. “That picture was of Hammad Mateen, a former assistant states attorney from Charles County, who now works for Sen. Benjamin Cardin’s office.”

He said Rossignol’s racism was clearly exposed when he portrayed blacks from D.C. as criminals in a cartoon.

Mustikhan said in spite of the setback he his weighing his options to appeal the decision at the circuit court as there are clear labor rights and human rights violations in the case.