Plaintiff's own circumstances insufficient to establish a pattern of discrimination, and when combined with the fact that the decisionmakers for the allegedly discriminatory employment decision are members of the same majority classification, is insufficient to establish the background circumstances required to find that a member of a majority classification was discriminated against.
Sufficient evidence for the nondiscriminatory explanation. Having several nondiscriminatory reasons advanced for the decision after the fact is insufficient to establish pretext if the reasons don't contradict.