New Haven Test: Black Firefighters Pass; Leftist Racists (Including Sotomayor and Mainsteam Media) Fail

"Monday's decision has its origins in New Haven's need to fill vacancies for lieutenants and captains in its fire department. It hired an outside firm to design a test, which was given to 77 candidates for lieutenant and 41 candidates for captain. Fifty-six firefighters passed the exams, including 41 whites, nine blacks and six Hispanics. But of those, only 17 whites and two Hispanics could expect promotion."


Before leaving the New Haven firefighter case, where people were discriminated against because of their race (courtesy of the RACISTS at Yale, and in the rest of the left), I wanted to note the above information--an excerpt from a mainstream media (I tghink AP) news story boutt he Supreme Court decision.


Do you remember how the mainstream media "spun" this case--to try to justify the four racist members of the Supreme Court who wanted to endorse racial discrimination as teh policy of this country (so long as it is against "white"--note the statistics in the above "news" article are FALSE, because it is certain that a number--perhaps all--of the firefighters were of MIXED race, lke Obama, me, all "Hispanics", my 50% Hispanic daughters, and virually everyone else). Yes, the mainstream media also needed to justify the racism of Obama appointee Sotomayor, who did not even see an ISSUE when she decided against the "white" firfighters in a SUMMARY decision of her Court of Appeals panel. I digress (not really, since leftist racism is the entire point here).


You will note, from the quoted news article excerpt above, that MANY African-Americans PASSED the test that New Haven gave the firefighters, and then disregarded because no blacks qulaified for promotion. Say what? Did I get that right? YES, I did. It is the mainstream media that basically ignored the real facts here. You saw the reports about how NO blacks passed the test (stupid as racist leftists think they are, and are wiling to tell you they are). Not true. In fact, this test was evidently given in other places, in substantialy the same from, and many blacks passed it. In other words, New Haven was merely saying that it insisted on a QUOTA of "minority" firefighters being promoted, IN EACH PROMOTION, or else no one would be promoted. This idea of GROUP (racial group) "rights" is both the essence of racism and the essence of leftist thought that our whole society is not about individuals--despite our Constitution. Rather, to leftists, our society is about racial (group) justice in every aspect of our society. I know. I forgot one aslpect. Blacks are not well represented in SOME competitive sports (golf, NASCAR, race cars in general, etc.). Why is that different from New Haven? Dirtylittle secret: IT ISN'T DIFFERENT. It is just that even leftists can't quite yet sell giving African-Americans a stroke a hole in order to achieve racial "justice" in golf.


You are still puzzled? You still remember those multiple news reports that NO African-Americans (mixed race people with mostly "black" skin color) passed this test, and only 2 Hispanics (mixed race people primarily WHITE-Caucasian). What was that all about. Wel, it turns out that NO African-Americans otherwise ELIGIBLE for promotion (for whatever reason, such as time on the job) passed the test. It is almost uncontested that the test was "fair". African-Americans COULD pass the test. It is just that, for whatever reason, NO African-Amerian who passed the test was eligible for promotion at the time promotions were scheduled. Thus, "white" firefighters who "played byt he rules" get denied their promotions simply because ot their skin color.


The case is one of the most balatnat examples of racial discrimination in the post-slavery history of our country. There was no excuse for it. My brother is still livid about it, and cannot understand how there was even a QUESTION about this (the opposite of the Sotomayor lunacy, since she found no question that this was the proper thing for New Haven to do).


My brother is really corret. The most disturbing thing about this case is how close the left is to turning our society into strictly a society of racial spoils, where each race is "entitled" to a certain number of spots in every competitive emplooyment or educational situation--even thogough skin color (not to mention ethnic origin) is totally a SUPERFICIAL characteristic of a human being. As I say repeatedly, there is no such thing as "black/African-American blood". The blood is RED (in air). We all should be treated as individuals, rather than as members of a racial or ethnic group, and if you believe differently, you know who your intellectual ancestors are. Right. You are getting you "philosophy" directly from the Ku Klux Klan.


The actual facts of the New Haven case are so bad that they are instructive. Those facts show just how far leftists are willling to go to impose their racist view of "group rights" on our society.