THE QUOTA RACKET: CORRUPTION IN NAME OF JUSTICE

NY Post ^ | July 3, 2009 | Michael Barone

[Scanian]

THE Supreme Court's deci sion in Ricci v. DeStefano, the case of the New Haven firefighters, was a ringing endorsement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964's ban on racial discrimination and a repudiation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's decision in the Second Circuit US Court of Appeals.

While five justices flatly rejected Sotomayor's ruling, even the four dissenters wouldn't have let stand her ruling allowing the results of a promotion exam to be set aside because no black firefighter had a top score.

Ricci is also something else: a riveting lesson in political sociology, thanks to the concurring opinion by Justice Samuel Alito. It shows how a combination of vote-hungry politicians and local political agitators -- you might call them community organizers -- worked with the approval of elite legal professionals like Sotomayor to employ racial quotas and preferences in defiance of the words of the Civil Rights Act.

A chief actor was the Rev. Boise Kimber, a supporter of Mayor John DeStefano. The mayor testified for him as a character witness in a 1996 trial in which he was convicted of stealing prepaid funeral expenses from an elderly woman. DeStefano later appointed Kimber the head of the board of fire commissioners, but Kimber resigned after saying he wouldn't hire certain recruits because "they just have too many vowels in their name."

After the results of the promotion test were announced, showing that 19 white and one Hispanic firefighter qualified for promotion, Kimber called the mayor's chief administrative officer opposing certification of the test results.

[hershey]

At some point Obama and pals will simply announce that the Constitution is flat out wrong, discriminatory, and evil, and will be completely rewritten with ‘civil rights’in mind. The American people will not be consulted.

[livius]

Kimber resigned after saying he wouldn't hire certain recruits because "they just have too many vowels in their name."

Huh? I would assume this means Italian, Portuguese or Hispanic candidates, but it's certainly a weird way of saying it. Maybe it's a black thing.

[YankeeGirl]

Not really a “black” thing.

My hubby is in a predominantly Italian industry. He does well with the company though jokes that he’d be more of an “insider” if his name ended with a “vowel”. Jokingly calls himself the token WASP.

[RoadTest]

” CORRUPTION IN NAME OF JUSTICE”

This is one of the Demonrats’ patterns - to call it one thing and make it the opposite, like the American Civil Liberties Union: it is un-American and anti-civil-liberty.

Obama says he’s gong to stimulate the economy, but the stimulus threatens to bankrupt the patient. He says he won’t increase taxes and proceeds to increase taxes. (Yes, I remember George H.W. Bush and “Read my lips”)

He promises change and continues all the New World Order destructive policies of the string of Presidents before him. He says he’s a Christian and shows favoritism to Muslim tyrants. It goes on and on that way.

[Clink]

even the four dissenters wouldn't have let stand her ruling allowing the results of a promotion exam to be set aside because no black firefighter had a top score.

Can someone explain to me why then they didn't make it 9-0?

[RU88]

It's very telling what the anointed one thinks of affirmative action, considering to date he's probably been its greatest beneficiary. He was asked in an interview after the Ricci decision when he thought that affirmative action would no longer be needed in the United States. His response was when there is no longer any malnutrition, inadequate schools, or poverty. I kid you not. So the answer is basically never.

We've got to come to grips with the fact that no two human beings are the same or equal in their physical or mental capacities or in their innate ability to become successful. This has little to nothing to do with race or gender but has a boat load to do with individual drive, nurtured along at an early age by a caring parent or parents. Many people have overcome extreme obstacles to reach for their dreams. It is almost criminal that minorities are being sold this bill of goods that they AS A GROUP need this additional governmental assistance to be successful. Its insulting really. Identity politics needs to be exposed for what it is as it is thrown on the ash heap of history.

[livius]

Maybe it’s a Connecticut thing! I’d never heard it before, at any rate, but when I lived in the Mid West, I remember thinking about people who didn’t have enough vowels in their names - that is, people of Slavic descent - mainly because I was never sure how to pronounce them.

[flowerplough]

RE: allowing the results of a promotion exam to be set aside because no black firefighter had a top score.
Self-energizing feedback loop? Give enough women and minorities a break, and the women and minorities come to expect that break and don't prepare as they should. There's no case studies or official pronouncements, but similar female/minority underachieving seems to be almost SOP at work.

[Iron Munro]