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FDNY Diversity Officer Quits
Firefighter Nation / NY Post ^ | 10-13-15 | SUSAN EDELMAN and JOE TACOPINO

Posted on 10/15/2015 12:02:40 PM PDT by smokingfrog

The FDNY's first chief diversity and inclusion officer is leaving the post after less than a year on the job, the FDNY said Thursday.

Pamela Lassiter was sworn in Jan. 30.

Sources said that Lassiter's departure came as a surprise. "Here we have someone who is academically qualified. She's a black, female . . . Then, suddenly - bam, she's gone," one fire official said.

The position was created after a judge ruled that the FDNY's entrance exam was biased against minorities.

Commissioner Daniel Nigro, in a statement on Lassiter's exit, stressed the FDNY's progress in improving that record.

(Excerpt) Read more at firefighternation.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: diversity; diversityofficer; fdny; newyork; pamelalassiter
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1 posted on 10/15/2015 12:02:40 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
The position was created after a judge ruled that the FDNY's entrance exam was biased against minorities.

Only people who can read at or above a third-grade level can pass it.

2 posted on 10/15/2015 12:05:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the pope Catholic?)
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To: smokingfrog

Probably had a better government job offer.

I think she was more interested in staying because of the money even though it sounds like she was a for race hire.


3 posted on 10/15/2015 12:05:58 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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“chief diversity and inclusion officer”
So her job was to make sure the unqualified get jobs?
4 posted on 10/15/2015 12:06:54 PM PDT by glasseye
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To: smokingfrog
"Here we have someone who is academically qualified. She's a black, female . . .

Too bad they can't just be QUALIFIED.

Idiots...

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5 posted on 10/15/2015 12:08:16 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: glasseye

Diversity is defined as fewer white people and less western culture.

That’s all it means.


6 posted on 10/15/2015 12:08:19 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: smokingfrog

Dead weight leaving is a good thing


7 posted on 10/15/2015 12:08:32 PM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: FourPeas

Oh, I’m sure they will hire someone to replace her that is equally “qualified”.


8 posted on 10/15/2015 12:09:54 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: MrB

“Diversity is defined as fewer white people and less western culture.”

They used to be called racial quotas. Then they changed the terminology to diversity.


9 posted on 10/15/2015 12:11:00 PM PDT by detective
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To: smokingfrog
Oh, I’m sure they will hire someone to replace her that is equally “qualified”.

But they already had a black female. Who else would be equally qualified, other than another black female? I suppose they could go with a Hispanic transgender, or a limp-wrist mixed-race man, but there isn't much else that could match what they already had, since the only job qualification is to be diverse and check as many diversity boxes as possible.

10 posted on 10/15/2015 12:13:35 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: smokingfrog
The position was created after a judge ruled that the FDNY's entrance exam was biased against minorities.

I suppose it measured whether someone could read and count.

11 posted on 10/15/2015 12:17:00 PM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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"Here we have someone who is academically qualified. She's a black, female . . .

Black and female isn't quite enough these days.

Not being a cross-dressing, transvestite lesbian, illegal alien muslim who is also a card carrying communist with pedophilic tendencies
she no doubt had serious misgivings about her qualifications.


12 posted on 10/15/2015 12:18:30 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: MrB

It does mean a little more such as conquest by the Third World.


13 posted on 10/15/2015 12:19:09 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: TLI

“She’s a black, female . . . “

“Too bad they can’t just be QUALIFIED.”

Those *are* the qualifications. You don’t really think in the real world there is a job skill called “diversity” do you? /s


14 posted on 10/15/2015 12:42:17 PM PDT by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: smokingfrog
Commissioner Daniel Nigro

You can't make this sh*t up.

15 posted on 10/15/2015 12:45:30 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: smokingfrog

Someone with those credentials (black, female) will receive numerous job offers from other companies to harass normal white males.


16 posted on 10/15/2015 12:50:09 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Lazamataz

I know!!


17 posted on 10/15/2015 12:53:13 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

We sure this isn’t satire? Someone was quoted as saying she was qualified because she was female and black, and the commissioners name was Nigro.

The funny just writes itself here.


18 posted on 10/15/2015 12:55:17 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: smokingfrog

Sometimes...you just realize you’re allergic to bullshit.


19 posted on 10/15/2015 12:56:54 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: smokingfrog

Acrophobia


20 posted on 10/15/2015 12:58:12 PM PDT by butlerweave
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