http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2719685/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2719529/posts
“Fire Department must hire 111 black applicants who passed a firefighters entrance exam 16 years ago...”
Are they going to repeat the physical tests or is the recruit who 16 years later is 40lbs. overweight, 16 years older and lacking the strength of a younger man overlooked for political correctness?
Now who would have believed that this could happen in a northern city such as Chicago. After all, these things only happen in the South. Why down here below the Mason-Dixon Line, we still have to have a federal judge approve the closure of schools for budget purposes and also changes to the curriculum at most of the schools in predominately minority neighborhoods for fear that there will not be equality.
If this discrimination thing happened in the fire department, perhaps it is happening in other governmental institutions. Now how in the hell did this get by our “Community Organizer-in Chief” during his tenure in Chicago? Can he get anything right?
Should they appeal this? Frankly, I’m not at all sure what SCOTUS would do at this point. They’ve all gone mad.
Can some of those be white guys covered with soot?
Sorry for the off-color humor...
Brace yourselves for the next Great Chicago Fire, Windy Citizens.
“Court: Chicago Must Hire 111 Black Firefighters”
Does it matter if they are qualified or is being black qualification enough?
Unless it was proven the selection process was rigged, or was outside of statistical probability.......take it to the SCOTUS. That will stop everything. They might not have had the best system of selection, but if it was random......it was a system nonetheless.
Did the legal argument include the public bearing the tax burden on an honest, however imperfect system?
Awesome. What will be the impact on a city of having 111 fire fighters who will absolutely do jack s#$t?
WooHoo, hit the lottery!
This is why I never choose minority physicians for my healthcare. Even though there may be some fine minority doctors on the list, there’s a huge chance they’re there via affirmative action. It’s not fair to those who are wonderful, but until the whole a.a. thing is done away with, people will always have questions. Respectable, competent professionals of all races should abhor affirmative action.
I don’t like making calls on little evidence, but from what I’m reading, these people are being chosen for their skin color, not their ability to do the job...and as a current volunteer firefighter, that’s dangerous for the city they’re supposed to protect.
Keep your ears and eyes open. If, in the future, we start hearing about poor firefighting service in Chicago, we’ll know what the cause was.
Everything’s about race now. We have become the most racist Country in history. We are obsessed with race! we are approaching insanity.
insane
and the taxpayers take another hit
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
More reparations. That’s all this is.
Pay off the black folks.
They don’t have a case,but they get a pay off.