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Lowered Standards in New Haven

January 27, 2009

New Haven firefighter Frank Ricci did what he was supposed to do. He bought the recommended books and studied for a promotion exam. Despite his dyslexia, Ricci scored high enough to qualify for a promotion, but the department threw out all test results. No blacks and only two Hispanics scored high enough to be promoted. [...]

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Review: Getting Under the Skin of Diversity

December 22, 2008

Half a century ago, America was embroiled in a legal and moral struggle to end government-sanctioned racial discrimination. Under a system known as Jim Crow, our government treated citizens differently based on race. Today, America still treats citizens differently based on race under a policy euphemistically known as “affirmative action.” In 1961, President John F. [...]

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Economic Affirmative Action: Change We Can Believe In!

November 20, 2008

The people have spoken. On November 4, 2008, 51 percent of Colorado voters defeated a measure that would have ended state and local government race- and sex-based discrimination and preferences in hiring, contracting, and admissions. Fifty-eight percent of Nebraska voters passed a similar measure, and 53 percent of the nation’s voters chose Barack Obama over [...]

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Equality in Colorado

October 1, 2008

Who would have thought in 2008, some 50 years after the country groaned under the strain of dismantling laws and practices that relegated blacks to second class citizenship, the government still would be discriminating against people on the basis of race? Alive and well is the practice of assessing black job applicants, contract bidders, and [...]

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