Posted on 03/16/2014 5:24:48 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Blacktivist ....
Black-RATs vs Union-RATs.
I like it.
Actually this seems to be a battle between union thugs and black officers. I would surmise there is no “good” side in this battle. But, if the union are protecting their own, the black officers may have a case.
Bm
Well, there's your problem ... you are using objective criteria.
“Of the 36 eligible, the highest African-American ranked 22nd. The other two were ranked 30th and 32nd. For one lieutenant spot, the highest-ranking black officer was fifth.
Well, there’s your problem ... you are using objective criteria.”
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It’s not FAIR to discriminate against the room-temperature IQ crowd!
I see these things getting worse as we balkanize our population more by bringing in more "disadvantaged" in the future. Every ethnic group seems to have a grievance against “the establishment”. These grievances can mostly be traced to either a desire or inability to gain traction in the economic system. Ironically, those who do advance seem to have no problems. Seems to me they did so by way of education and personal perseverance. Those who don't have a grudge and continue to whine about “unfairness” rather than looking within. They point to racial discrimination rather than to a class bias which it more likely is. For instance, Do I want to live next to a crack house, a low income housing development, zig zag past double and triple parked low riders, or listen to bongo drums 24/7. NO. I am tired of it all.
It’s funny looking at some of the comments at the article. People whining about “white supremacy”, etc, etc.
“We expect equallity but demand special treatment because we are black!”
As long as there remains a “Congressional Black Caucus”, African American Firefighters Assns., and all the other splinter, racist groups, backed by a polarizing, racist administration, there will always be tensions in society.
Social justice is just another name for picking Whitey’s pocket. Equality is not the goal, never was.
Being a racially closed meeting you've got to wonder if they we discussing the tensions as a and to problem to be solved or as a celebration of a goal achieved and to be built on.
Google "The Uhuru Movement" and you will find the root cause of this decades old strain...
These racists have been causing trouble in St Petersburg for a long time
I would guarantee some of the "city activist" are Uhuru members...stirring up racial problems...
“He postulated they outlawed slavery before the US did so what would have happened is they would have loaded them all on ships and sent them back to africa ending potential racial problems here.”
That isn’t how they dealt with them in Canada or Bermuda.
“Every ethnic group seems to have a grievance against “the establishment”.”
Only the perpetually underperforming do; I don’t see such groups for “Euro-Americans” or Asians.
“Social justice is just another name for picking Whitey’s pocket. Equality is not the goal, never was.”
Affirmative action is a de facto admission by protected groups and the government that “administers” them that they are in fact genetically inferior. Blacks, Hispanics, and females all seem to admit to their inferiority (wanting it enshrined in law), and are laughing all the way to the bank. While destruction of the white males may be their intent, in the end they always come crawling back looking for someone who actually has knowledge and ability; corporations and governments in the end rely on the white guys when the stuff hits the fan, and the tokens are just an added financial burden (like the cost of an additional gubmint regulation).
“Only the perpetually underperforming do; I don’t see such groups for “Euro-Americans” or Asians”
I covered that point by noting those who complain or whine seem to be those who are not successful.
On your other point, point taken.
Black officers say they have no way up the ladder.
1.Affermitive action
2.Fed quotas
3.Race card
Yawn
So true!
Very simple. How is "merit" determined?
If by reviews from superiors, then it's not objective.
If by grades on standardized tests, then it's not "fair" if there is disproportionate impact on minorities.
Simple answer: There is no conceivable way of determining merit that would satisfy those who expect proportionate results.
In actual fact, black officers promoted in proportion to their representation in the department wouldn't satisfy them. Only a moratorium on white promotions till the upper ranks are representative of the force, or possibly of the community.
Which is, of course, utterly unfair to those individual white officers denied promotion simply because of their race.
Give ‘em all 40 acres and a white slave. Reparations!
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