Quotas

Perceptions

October 20, 2010

One of the consequences of racial preferences is how people perceive racial minorities. Even if a minority were hired or admitted without regard to race, for example, the use of preferences in the hiring or admissions process leads others to believe the minority was hired or admitted in part because of race and held to [...]

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Paul Mannix in NY Daily News

October 14, 2010

Merit Matters is an advocacy group for members of the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) that seeks to preserve merit-based hiring and promotions. Paul Mannix, deputy fire chief and president of the organization, wrote an op-ed that appeared in the New York Daily News. Last summer, a federal judge ruled that [...]

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NYC Rejects Judge’s Race-Based Hiring Proposals

September 21, 2010

Last week I blogged about the New York Daily News‘s editorial about the continuing FDNY/disparate impact case. Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled that FDNY discriminated against black and Hispanic applicants by requiring them to take a recruitment exam on which they generally scored lower than white applicants. Among the judge’s proposals intended to rectify the “discrimination” [...]

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NY Daily News on FDNY Racial Quotas

September 15, 2010

Three years ago, President George W. Bush’s Department of Justice filed suit against the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) for violating the Civil Rights Act, alleging that two pass-fail written exams and the rank ordering process disparately impacted minorities and weren’t job-related or consistent with business necessity. Last summer, Brooklyn federal judge Nicholas Garaufis [...]

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Mississippi Churning

September 1, 2010

This is one of the more bizarre “diversity” stories I’ve read. To help ensure “minority representation,” Nettleton Middle School in Nettleton, Mississippi, designated which race could run for certain class officer positions. Only whites could run for class president in all three grades—sixth, seventh, and eighth. In sixth grade, blacks could run only for the [...]

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Jennifer Gratz on NPR

August 17, 2010

The American Civil Rights Institute‘s Jennifer Gratz is featured in a story on NPR about “affirmative action,” also known as racial preferences. The plaintiff in Gratz. v. Bollinger, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the University of Michigan’s use of a racial point system in admissions, told NPR that there “were rumors in [...]

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Judge Bars FDNY From Hiring Over Testing

August 5, 2010

Yesterday, a federal judge temporarily barred the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) from hiring rookie firefighters, because the department used what the court called an exam that discriminates against blacks and Hispanics. Three years ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under George W. Bush filed suit against the FDNY for violating the Civil Rights [...]

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California Court Voids Quota Law

July 6, 2010

Although California’s constitution bars the government from discriminating against or granting preferences to individuals or groups on the basis of race in government employment, education, or contracting, proponents of race-based policies still resist obeying the law. Last October, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who swore to uphold the constitution, signed into law a bill that directs state [...]

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Phoenix to End Race- and Sex-Based Set-Aside Program

May 19, 2010

Contingent on city council approval, Phoenix will change its 17-year-old Minority, Women, and Small Business Enterprise Program, to remove race and sex from the city contract equation. Kudos to Phoenix. Instead, the city will set aside up to 10 percent of government contracts for small businesses, regardless of owners’ race or sex. (Source) What prompted [...]

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Judge Rules New York Discriminated Against Minorities

January 21, 2010

A decade ago, author Shelby Steele wrote about a racial preferences debate between the American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly and law professor Christopher Edley on C-SPAN. Among other things, Steele lamented over what he called the “disappearance of the black individual.” During the Q&A portion of the debate, a pro-preferences black Harvard student rose [...]