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Houston’s Lowered Standard Settlement

March 24, 2011

As long as things like this keep happening, the stereotype of the less intelligent, coddled, “affirmative action” hire will remain. Black firefighters in Houston, Texas, had the same opportunity to sit for and pass a promotion exam. Seven black firefighters who didn’t score high enough decided to sue the city rather than study harder for [...]

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Black Applicant Protests Dayton’s Lowered Standards

March 18, 2011

I’ll say that again, because it bears repeating: a black police officer applicant in Dayton, Ohio, doesn’t want to be held to a lesser standard than his peers. You may recall in this week’s Dumbing Down in Dayton post, I quoted the local NAACP president, who said his organization” does not support individuals failing a [...]

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Dumbing Down in Dayton

March 15, 2011

One of several reasons I loathe our tax-supported government preferring an individual of one race over an individual of the “wrong” race is because the practice typically entails lowering standards for the targeted “beneficiary. For the handful of people don’t believe that’s the case, the following might shock you. From ABC Dayton: “The Dayton Police [...]

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John Rosenberg on Misunderstanding Brown

February 14, 2011

Racial preferences proponents tend to cite Brown v. Board of Education (1954) to bolster their support for race-based school busing and school assignment quotas. However, a clear reading of the case shows the court did not intend to order the government to continue assigning students to schools based on race, in the name of diversity [...]

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Washington Times on FDNY Case

January 25, 2011

Continuing our coverage of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) case, I point you to a Washington Times editorial about how the Department of Justice is undermining the fire department and its mission to save lives. An excerpt: “Judge Garaufis wasn’t impressed that New York City has spent more than $20 million since 1989 [...]

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Milwaukee Set to Award Contracts By Race, Sex?

January 13, 2011

Although race- and sex-related disparities are not evidence of discrimination, their existence has become, ironically, justification for discrimination. The city of Milwaukee paid a company a few hundred thousand dollars to study whether there were “racial and gender” disparities in city contracting. Disparities typically are framed in news stories as a bad thing, particularly when [...]

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FDNY Hiring Still On Hold

January 13, 2011

Looks like New York City’s fire department is digging in its heels, trying to maintain standards in the face of demands to lower them. Will the department eventually concede? Rather than reinventing the microchip, I’ll point you to a recent post with background on the FDNY employment exam case. Earlier this week, the Associated Press [...]

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Village Voice Does FDNY Exam Case

December 15, 2010

“There’s no question that there is something very wrong with how the FDNY adds new employees. For nearly 40 years, various courts have issued injunctions to correct the miserable record of non-white hiring. New York’s fire department may, in fact, be the whitest large institution run by a major city in the United States. Your [...]

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Heather Mac Donald on Minority Set-Asides

November 30, 2010

Heather Mac Donald, who boldly writes about racial disparities in crime statistics and race-based lowered standards at the City Journal, pens an article for National Review Online’s The Corner blog about fraud and inefficiency in government minority set-asides (emphasis added). Two major construction companies are under federal investigation for using minority front companies in New [...]

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Heather Mac Donald on FDNY Lawsuit

October 26, 2010

The Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald weighs in on the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) case in the City Journal. Background: Three years ago, President George W. Bush’s Department of Justice filed suit against the FDNY for violating the Civil Rights Act, alleging that two pass-fail written exams and the rank ordering process disparately [...]