Posted on 04/09/2006 11:48:54 PM PDT by goldstategop
If you don't believe your federal government is actively working to destroy your way of life, to subvert common-sense standards, to further racial injustice and double-standards, to deny individual rights in favor of group rights, just read on and see what is happening right now in Virginia.
The city of Virginia Beach this week reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department – that's the federal agency headed by President Bush's pick of Alberto Gonzales – to lower the standards of math exams for local police recruits.
Why, you ask, would Washington be interfering in the setting of standards for the math examinations of local police officers in Virginia?
Great question. I wish more people were asking simple, logical, incisive questions of this kind. Why, indeed, is the federal government interfering in so many aspects of our lives?
The answer you will get from the Bush administration goes like this: In February, the Justice Department sent a letter to Virginia Beach stating that the police department had "engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination" against black and Hispanics. The only evidence cited were the results of a math exam given to all police recruits. It showed a wide gap between the passing rates for white applicants and the passing rates for blacks and Hispanics.
About 85 percent of white applicants passed the math test from 2002 to mid-2005, while only 59 percent of blacks and 66 percent of Hispanics did.
The Republican-led Justice Department demanded that Virginia Beach end this blatant discrimination and "provide sufficient remedial relief" to previous police applicants who suffered under this kind of oppression. While Washington did not specify how that "relief" should be provided, Virginia Beach got the message.
The city will now allow 124 applicants to be reconsidered – even though they previously failed the math test. The city is also giving those failures $160,000 because they can't add and subtract. Black math failures will be given $128,000 and Hispanic math failures will be given $32,000.
And, in the future, the city will eliminate the standard of a 70 percent passing grade. Under the new standards, if you want to call them that, an applicant must only score 70 percent on the reading and grammar test and score at least an average of at least 60 percent on all three parts of the exam.
Last month, by the way, the Chesapeake, Va., police department got a similar demand from Washington – also based on math standards for applicants. That dispute has not yet been resolved – meaning Chesapeake has not yet surrendered to the illogical, irrational, racist demands of the federal government to dumb down its police force.
You get the picture? If blacks and Hispanics can't do math, then math tests are racist. That's the conclusion of Alberto Gonzales, the man who likes to refer to himself as the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in the country.
If the federal government can do this to a local community, what's to prevent the federal government from forcing private employers from subverting their standards for employment? I wonder if Gonzales will next take a look at the National Basketball Association to determine why there is such a shortage of white men and no women whatsoever? Are the jumping and dunking standards too high? Are they preventing white men and women from gainful employment and seven-figure salaries?
This is absolutely mind-boggling.
It's too late for Virginia Beach to take a principled against this kind of insanity, but I hope other communities faced with these kinds of racist, discriminatory demands by the federal government tell the Justice Department where to go.
Maybe they should refer Gonzalez and Bush to the federal Department of Education, which obviously is shortchanging blacks and Hispanics when it comes to the teaching of math.
"I am really surprised that this is the first time you have noticed that tests for employment have been dumbed-down for minorities".
Physical standards for employment have been lowered for minorities too.
Fire departments lowered standards for women. The military standards for men and women are not the same. Police requirements are lower for women than for men.
If you add up all the minorities in this country they are far more in number than the "majority", which is ONLY COMPRISED OF WHITE MALES!
Anyone other than white males make up the "minority".
Do you really think for one minute the republican controlled congress and senate would allow kerry or gores AG to get away with doing this horses**t without getting impeached? we need a gridlocked government because we Can not survive As nation much longer with a full republican control over all three branches of government
Do you really think that if Gore or Kerry was elected we would still control the house or the senate. If the country's mindset leaned towards either of those two, all hope would be lost....IMO
Yes i do because both gore and kerry came real close to being president and we kept majority control over the house and senate and gained seats in congressinoal districts that bush lost in the elections
Actually they couldn't have been any worse and in fact, odds are they both would have been better as the GOP controlled congress would have kept them in check.
From spending increases unmatched since the Johnson administration to pseudo-amnesty programs to racial quotas, if the Republicans lose power, they have no one to blame but themselves.
Why in hell should be content with that when he and the Republicans are behaving like liberals on most other issues? No, it isn't acceptable for conservatives to save Bush's sorry ass from defeat and have him continue to increase spending at the fastest rate since the Johnson administration, do nothing to control the borders and enact racial quotes.
It's no wonder we never see major change in this nation when people like you think that's good enough.
Read this, my friend. You will find out that Bush is indeed a conservative, though not in the sense you mean.
Virginia Beach agrees to change the way it scores police math exams [to hire minorities]Posted on 04/03/2006
The city has reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve allegations that the math portion of the police entrance examination discriminates against blacks and Hispanics.
The justice department is filled with career lawyers who are either not interested in private sector work or are trying to groom themselves for a judicial job.
Those lawyers are not to be trusted and they are about a "american" as the CIA supports President Bush.
Many of the Justice Department lawyers are public interest types who are anti-gun and anti-war and pro-democrat party.
Bush Jr. "applauded" SCOTUS when it upheld racial preferences in the Michigan Law School case.
Given recent events, that's understandable. But be advised that no Democrat Congress or Administration is ever going to a.) lower taxes, b.) prosecute the WOT or c.) appoint originalist judges.
Republican politicians continue to exhibit one, and only one, saving grace: They're not Democrats!
Hayek would be absolutely appalled at Bush's programs.
That's hilarious!
The white male takes the shaft in this society, no doubt of that, and then we get made fun of when we complain.
Yes, I believe he would. Have you read Hayek's The Road To Serfdom? If not, I highly recommend it.
I LOVE Road to Serfdom. That and Bastiat's "The Law" are my two favorite economic treatises.
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