Posted on 09/01/2009 4:14:24 PM PDT by Bob017
The Obama administration is planning to revive high-impact enforcement of civil rights against policies where statistics show that minorities fare disproportionately poorly.
Seven months after taking office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reshaping the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division by pushing it back into some of the most important areas of American political life, including voting rights, housing, employment, bank lending practices [swell idea! Too bad nobody ever thought of it before] and redistricting after the 2010 census.
As part of this shift, the Obama administration is planning a major revival of high-impact civil rights enforcement against policies, in areas ranging from housing to hiring, where statistics show that minorities fare disproportionately poorly [i.e. Disparate Impact]. President George W. Bush’s appointees had discouraged such tactics, preferring to focus on individual cases in which there is evidence of intentional discrimination.
To bolster a unit that has been battered by heavy turnover and a scandal over politically tinged hiring under the Bush administration, the Obama White House has also proposed a hiring spree that would swell the ranks of several hundred civil rights lawyers with more than 50 additional lawyers, a significant increase for a relatively small but powerful division of the government.
The division is “getting back to doing what it has traditionally done,” Mr. Holder said in an interview. “But it’s really only a start. I think the wounds that were inflicted on this division were deep, and it will take some time for them to fully heal.”
... Under the Bush administration, the agency shifted away from its traditional core focus on accusations of racial discrimination, channeling resources into areas like religious discrimination and human trafficking....
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When we get a decent president back, just move them all over to the post office. They are interchangeable I hear.
The gov. discriminates against some of its workers and uses such clearinghous methods on the private.
If you owe the gov., you owe it for ever (ie. other workers), yet if it owes you and you forget to claim for a time, it does not owe you anymore.
Know that this quota bullcrap is pure gov. homo cronyist butt kiss policy in nice PC BS form. It sets a sort of aristocratic people which is always owed and another which must pay.
As Orwell said, some pigs are more equal than others and Big Brother does not like to see its persecuted reveal the fraud or grow up against it when going back private.
Expect members of the military to get the shaft most of the time.
Does anyone know where you an get a race change operation?
Get a screwdriver, grip it firmly in your right hand, shove it into your right ear, to the handle.
Mission accomplished.
I can think of no other explanation for the way some of our citizens think.
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