The Department of Justice, charged with enforcing the law and defending the interests of the United States, has filed suit against the city of Gary, Indiana for discriminating against white applicants in favor of black applicants for emergency medical technician (EMT positions.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The department alleges that six white applicants sought EMT positions and were placed on a hiring list. The city ended up hiring only black applicants, although the six white applicants ranked higher than the lowest-ranked black applicant who received a job offer.
The city’s attorney claims it’s geographical, not racial. The list on which the white applicants appeared was prepared while Scott King was mayor, but the new mayor didn’t recognize the list.
“We hire not on the basis of any race, but on the basis of residency,” said Hamilton Carmouche.
Would Carmouche have us believe the city hired only blacks because they live in the city and skipped over white applicants because they don’t live in the city? Quite a jarring and entirely avoidable coincidence, if you ask me.
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Hiring people because of their race is discriminatory and unjust. MLK wanted people to be judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Affirmative action is directly opposed to MLK’s vision, and a slap in the face to the concept of fairness and level playing fields. Hiring on the basis of race is ILLEGAL. Period. Thank you Ward and others for putting a stop to it. Now if we could just get the biggest offender, the Federal Government, to stop. Between their direct hiring, their attacks on companies, and their insistence that gov’t contracts go to firms based on skin color… the FedGov is truly the head of the serpent when it comes to this AA fraud being perpetrated on the American people and causing so much ill will between the races.
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