Yep.
And who cares if the civil employee figuring the IV drip rate for your loved-one “passed” with 65% on the math portion of the entrance exam?
Math is discriminatory, and besides, it’s far more important that trainees learn to cook and appreciate the ethnic cuisine concocted within the socially diverse Fire-hive, than it is for them to be fit and competent.
The reason test for Fireman and Policemen have been attacked is because these are government jobs and there are more of these government jobs than pretty much any other. Another reason is that these are government jobs that you can get with no more than a high school diploma.
These jobs offer good wages and a short run to a good pension; in most cases you can retire after 20 years. In other words these are plum jobs.
But there is one problem. It has become unfashionable in the inner city schools to become proficient in reading, writing and arithmetic. So for the brothers to get these plum jobs with only their grade inflated HS diplomas or to advance in their chosen (if stolen) careers the unjust impediment of achieving a superior score on a competency test must be overcome.
So how to overcome the meritocracy that was set up to overcome the nepotism that existed previously. Well simple statistical analysis which clearly shows that minorities consistently score lower on these test than majority whites. And of course anyone who would suggest that minorities score lower because they don’t study for these test or they simply wasted their prime learning years in their youth is a racist.