July 2009

Hispanic New Haven Firefighter Called an ‘Uncle Tom’

July 10, 2009

The New York Times published a story about Lieutenant Ben Vargas, the lone Hispanic who joined a lawsuit with white firefighters in Ricci v. DeStefano. Vargas says he was knocked unconscious by someone he suspects was a black firefighter for joining the lawsuit. His own brother, also a firefighter, turned against him. Vargas, who received [...]

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Naval Academy Professor Exposes Two-Tiered Admissions

July 9, 2009

Last month we blogged about the Center for Equal Opportunity‘s study, “Racial, Ethnic and Gender Preferences in Admissions to the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy,” which concluded that both service academies lowered admissions standards for black admittees. Professor Bruce Fleming, who teaches at the Naval Academy, exposes how the school assesses applicants [...]

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Obama’s Response to Ricci

July 9, 2009

Like most liberal politicians, President Barack Obama supports race-based preferential treatment, although he calls it affirmative action, which it is not. We’ve explained on the blog several times what affirmative action is: widening the recruitment net to include qualified minorities historically left out of the process for whatever reason. Racial preferences are not affirmative action. [...]

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Sotomayor Group Fought Employment Tests

July 9, 2009

It should surprise no one that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor supports preferential treatment for racial minorities and women. Consequently, one shouldn’t be stunned that she served on the board of a group that filed lawsuits over employment exams similar to the ones in Ricci v. DeStefano. (Source) The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education [...]

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Jefferson County Race-Based Assignment Plan Redux

July 7, 2009

A few years ago, white parents in Seattle and Jefferson County, Kentucky, sued the school districts for assigning students based on race, a policy they said violated their rights to equal protection of the laws. The schools claimed they used race only as a “tie-breaker.” The cases made their way to the U.S. Supreme Court, [...]

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Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact Inconsistent

July 3, 2009

An excerpt from my latest Townhall column: “The problem began 38 years ago in a Supreme Court case called Griggs v. Duke Power Co. Black applicants disproportionately lacked required diplomas and/or failed the employment tests. The court held that for purposes of hiring, both requirements violated the Civil Rights Act. If an employment practice is [...]

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Ricci v. DeStefano and Higher Education

July 1, 2009

The Chronicle of Higher Ed reports that “experts” are glad the Supreme Court’s decision in Ricci v. DeStefano won’t hamper colleges’ use of racial preferences in admissions. Robert M. O’Neil, emeritus professor of law at the University of Virginia, says Grutter v. Bollinger, a case in which the Supreme Court barred racial quotas but allowed [...]

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Abigail Thernstrom on Ricci v. DeStefano

July 1, 2009

The media and the blogosphere are buzzing over the Supreme Court’s decision in Ricci v. DeStefano. Conservatives hail it as a tenuous victory over racial quotas, and liberals jeer it as a step backward for civil rights. Abigail Thernstrom, co-author of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning, calls the decision “very good news.” [...]

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