[Cincinatus' Wife]

A cry in the black education wilderness

Despite small reading gains, many may repeat third grade (one in three can't read or add)

[Hardastarboard]

And if the class were all black, there wouldn't be a peep. Let the best man win, and color be damned. If that means we end up with all black accountants and CEO's, and the white guys can't crack the ceiling, if it truly is based on merit, who cares?

[DainBramage]

Chief Moose Bump

[Jim Noble]

Diversity is our strength.

War is Peace.

Freedom is Slavery.

Ignorance is Strength.

[RebelBanker]

...allowing six blacks to skirt the hiring process...

And the morons in charge of this wonder why whites get so cynical and tend to leave! What a typical liberal crock of s**t!

An episode of the TV show "Homicide" (which was about and filmed in Baltimore) addressed the issue of "Affirmative Action hires" in the police. Even the liberal black detective eventually has to admit that bringing in unqualified people just for the sake of racial "diversity" was a disaster.

[Modernman]

"My opinion is that the test had an adverse impact on minorities taking it," said retired firefighter Henry Burris. "We have found that the test administered had some built-in biases."

I'm not sure how a test that deals with fire-fighting could have some sort of built-in bias. Seems like fighting fires would be a pretty race-neutral thing.

[Unicorn]

Where's chief Moose when you need him?

[Publius6961]

But the agency is reacting with a couple of quick fixes - including allowing six blacks to skirt the hiring process and join the academy on a conditional basis, and requesting that the entrance test be changed.

This is the real news.
Keep pandering to the pets on the plantation. I hope that "service" or "excellence" are not part of the city's motto.

[Arthalion]

Interesting. The college I'm employed at has a large fire training complex, and we graduate dozens of new firefighters for departments across Northern California every year. Now, in California, whites are technically no longer the majority (all of the minorities combined make up about 52% of the population last time I checked) but whites make up 80% to 90% of the programs graduates. I once asked one of the instructors why that is, and his answer was curt and to the point.

"They just don't apply."

[spiffy]

I just heard Mayor Martin O'Malley on the local news. He is flabbergasted about this. His comment was, (paraphrasing),"I've met with my commanders and have made it clear that we are never again to have, never again to have, a class that's not diverse."