Posted on 05/14/2011 4:32:09 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
JUSTICE SERVED?
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Chicago Fire Department must hire 111 black applicants who passed a firefighters entrance exam 16 years ago and pay millions of dollars to thousands more who took and passed the same test.
Was justice served?
An attorney for the group said that the 111 jobs would be filled from applicants who passed the 1995 test and that their pensions would be adjusted as if they’d been firefighters since 1995.
Attorney Joshua Karsh also said that 6,000 other blacks who also passed the test will divide “tens of millions of dollars” that would have been paid to 111 firefighters from 1995 until today.
The 1995 test was intended to measure an aptitude for firefighting. Officials indicated that they would randomly hire the top 1,800 who scored 89 or better. Because only 11 percent of black candidates scored 89 or better, the overwhelming number of applicants hired from the test were white.
As a result of the ongoing court challenges to the 1995 test, the city didn’t offer another one until 2006. What did they change? The new test was given on a pass/fail basis – ALL applicants – not just the top ones – were processed randomly.
Maybe that’s fine for firefighters – maybe it’s not; I’m not an expert on the requisite skills of firefighters. Doctors? Engineers? America’s schools and universities?
Hopefully, the playing field will be leveled before we have to find out the hard way.
First thing that will happen is someone will notice that most of them seem to be white folks ~ this is, after all, Chicago.
insane
and the taxpayers take another hit
I wonder what lawsuits will be rendered about the lack of remedial training to bring substandard firefighters up to snuff after some get killed, or caus ethe deaths of their fellow firefighters, for incompetence. Another catch-22 like when the city makes you shovel your walks, then lets people sue you if they slip on them because you modified God’s work...
What about Asians? Where are all the Asian firefighters, huh????
chicago is soooooooooooo effin’ stupid to hire dumb-azzzes
Time to raise premiums on property insurance in Chicago.
“Someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” Chewbacca
No kidding. They sure don’t give a sh1t about it when not hiring all the white guys that pass the test.
More reparations. That’s all this is.
Pay off the black folks.
They don’t have a case,but they get a pay off.
Of course, the dirty underbelly of this ruling... all those firefighters who WERE hired at that time - scored better on the test... but now that isn’t “fair”, so now the city has to hire those who didn’t score as high... AND get 15 years of “credit” in the TAXPAYER-FUNDED pension plan...
Ain’t it nice when judges carry out their political bias (can we say a form of reparations?) using their rather powerful position?
!!!
absolutely disgusting ruling. there is no merit to this ruling.
Years ago, a woman told me.....
“I don’t want any black doctors, and I don’t want any black attorneys.”
By the way, she too, is black.
Well it’ll be interesting to see how this 7th Circuit decision hols up vs the SCOTUS decision in the New Haven (CT) firemen’s case.
Is this redistribution or reparations?
“Can some of those be white guys covered with soot?
Sorry for the off-color humor...”
Why?? The time for political correctness is over. If they are not qualified dump em’!
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